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