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Oregon, for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2004. Roll call vote; the <br /> motion passed unanimously, 8:0. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy closed the meeting of the Eugene Urban Renewal Agency. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy reconvened the meeting of the Eugene City Council at 8:42 p.m. <br /> <br />4. PUBLIC HEARING: <br /> An Ordinance Concerning Prohibited Smoking; and Amending Sections 6.225, 6.230, and 6.240 <br /> of the Eugene Code, 1971 <br /> <br />City Manager Taylor introduced Keli Osbom, Permit Review Manager for the Planning and Development <br />Department (PDD), and asked her to briefly describe the proposed changes to the smoking ordinance. <br /> <br />Ms. Osbom explained that the first change would expand the distance people were to stand away from <br />public buildings for smoking purposes to 25 feet, and this included operable windows and air intakes. She <br />stated that the second was a proposal to place in the Eugene Code a provision that allowed for outdoor <br />smoking areas. She said there was an administrative rule that allowed such smoking areas and the code <br />made no reference to the rule. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing. <br /> <br /> Panla Ciesielski, 1783 Sweetbriar Drive, president of the Lane County Medical Society, restated the <br /> society's support for the smoking ordinance that was in place. She reminded the council that 635 <br /> physicians from the local society had endorsed the ordinance in 2002. She called the scientific evidence <br /> that exposure to secOnd-hand smoke was harmful immutable. She underscored that second-smoke <br /> chemicals included systemic, reproductive, and development toxicants, mutagens, and carcinogens and <br /> more than 50 compounds in tobacco smoke were known carcinogens. Ms. Ciesielski stated that second- <br /> hand smoke exposure caused lung and nasal/sinus cancer, heart disease, and sudden infant death <br /> syndrome. She listed the impacts of second-hand smoke on children, as follows: asthma induction and <br /> exacerbation, bronchitis, pneumonia, middle ear infection, chronic respiratory symptoms, and low birth <br /> weights. She noted that over 53,000 non-smokers were killed by second-hand smoke annually. She <br /> conveyed the Lane County Medical Society's recommendation that the City Council apply the ordinance <br /> to all publicly owned buildings. <br /> <br /> However, Ms. Ciesielski indicated the medical society could not support the second part of the ordinance. <br /> She said no one should be forced to breathe cigarette smoke while working. <br /> <br /> Pat Cookson, 2350 Oakmont Way, speaking on behalf of the American Cancer Society, thanked the <br /> council for enacting the tobacco products and smoking ordinance of 2000 to protect all workers. She <br /> underscored that the American Cancer Society was dedicated to preventing, treating, and eliminating <br /> cancer from all people's lives. She pointed out that tobacco remained the number one cause of <br /> preventable death in this country, affecting both smokers and non-smokers. She related that the American <br /> Cancer Society supported the first portion of the ordinance and the proposed ordinance provisions that <br /> would allow other public agencies to impose similar restrictions. However, she said the society opposed <br /> the second part of the ordinance that would incorporate the current administrative rule regarding outdoor <br /> smoking structures into the code. She called the incorporation of the rule a "step backwards." <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 24, 2005 Page 8 <br /> Regular Session <br /> <br /> <br />