Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT B M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Regular Meeting Council Chamber—Eugene City Hall December 10, 2007 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Bonny Bettman, George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Mike Clark, Alan Zelenka. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the regular meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. Kate Perle , 4740 Wendover Street, spoke as a resident of Santa Clara and an active member of the Board of Directors of the Santa Clara Community Organization (SCCO). She wanted to encourage the council to extend the code criteria so that it would ensure the public process surrounding annexations would be “transparent.” She related that the SCCO supported Attachment B, the alternative ordinance, in the council packet. She added that the SCCO requested that the postings for any public hearings be posted in more public places for two successive weeks prior to the public hearing, and that one of the postings should be at the proposed site with two other postings at the nearest intersection of arterial or collector streets. She averred that there was not a central location in the neighborhood where such items could be posted. Additionally, she asserted that Eugene Code (EC) 9.7815 still allowed “staff a large latitude” to modify private annexation requests “without any guiding criteria.” She opined that this was an on-going conten- tious process in the neighborhood. She feared that without specific guidelines, the processes would leave the neighborhood “as vulnerable as it did under the boundary commission.” Joe Collins , 2233 Hawkins Lane, quoted three letters to the editor of The Register Guard. One was written in regard to the proposed ballot measure to fund road repairs and asked how the mayor and City Council could contemplate a new City Hall in the face of the preservation and maintenance backlog. One suggested that the Police Chief was selecting laws to uphold rather than upholding all of them. The third alluded to the unseating of some of the councilors and mayor in the next election. He averred that he did not stand alone in his complaints about the City. He opined that Mayor Piercy and six councilors seemed to ignore 65 percent of Eugene. He thought it possible that some of the council did not care what the majority of residents thought. He would support recalling seven of the elected officials if the council continued to “spend, spend, spend” on items on which he had testified at the present meeting and at previous meetings. Cheryl Hunter , 5320 Nectar Way, supported the preservation of the Beverly and Green properties, deemed the Amazon Headwaters. She observed that questions were now coming up about the amount of the MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 10, 2007 Page 1 Regular Meeting