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current chair of the Toxics Board, he offered a revised proposal to the proposed ordinance and asked the <br />council to affirm tonight the unanimous recommendation from the board to include other hazardous <br />substance users. He said the revised language deleted painting, roofing, wall covering contractors, and <br />crematoriums from the proposed ordinance. He also asked that the council recognize the limitations of the <br />board to address the fee inequities in the program and to encourage those in the business community who <br />sued the City and lobbied for the legislative cap, to go back to the legislature this session and advocate for <br />quantity-based fees and support the City's position for elimination of the fee cap. Mr. Monk took issue <br />with a February 13, 2005, article in The Register-Guard by Mr. Russo that misrepresented the language <br />that defined hazardous substance users. <br /> <br />Evan Arkin, 29136 Gimpl Hill Road, an eighth grader from Spencer Butte Middle School, said that youth <br />breathe in more air than adults and he wanted to know what he was breathing in. He asked how youth <br />could participate in the process. He encouraged the council to consider the youth of the community and <br />asserted he spoke for the youth of the community. He wanted to know how he could take part in the <br />future of the community and how he could participate in learning about the environment, how to control it <br />and how to make it safe. He understood that some businesses may consider it unfair to pay fees, but <br />compared to the overall health of the community, the ordinance would help people know what was going <br />into the air. He encouraged the council to look through the packets, alarming facts, and alarming statistics <br />to realize that youth and adults need to know what was going into the air. <br /> <br />Planet Glassberg, 1154-½ Hodson Lane, said that several women friends had died of cancer in a five- <br />year period. She asked what it was going to take to prevent any more harm to Eugene residents. She <br />wanted to know what substances industries, corporations, and business were using that would cause harm, <br />and why they could not use alternatives that would not harm the environment or individuals. She asserted <br />that the environment and people must come before profits. All corporations, businesses, and industries <br />needed to be accountable and honest. It was time for the City to adopt and implement the precautionary <br />principle as San Francisco and other cities had. <br /> <br />Ruth Duemler, 1745 Fircrest Drive, said there was a need for a fair way to pay for the program. She <br />asserted that everyone should work together to accomplish that goal. She displayed a chart that illustrated <br />the difference between what was reported to the City compared to what was reported to the State and <br />federal governments, noting higher figures were reported to the City. She encouraged the council to <br />approve the ordinance. <br /> <br />Stephen Kujawa, 29495 Airport Road, ran a small, clean manufacturing business that employed six <br />employees who supported families in Eugene. He said that the business used small amounts of chemicals <br />that were already reported to the EPA, the Fire Marshal, and other regulatory authorities. He said the <br />business could expand to ten employees within the next year, at which time the cost of doing business in <br />Eugene would go up. He stated the proposed ordinance was inequitable in that it did not proportionally <br />distribute the costs to users. He asserted that the proposal punished small, growing companies that <br />provided family-wage jobs. He found it ludicrous that small companies using very little of the substances <br />were charged proportionately huge fees compared to larger companies that used 99 percent of the <br />substances. He asked if the City wanted small companies to spend time and money on redundant <br />paperwork or on employee health insurance, or perhaps on expanding their businesses resulting in more <br />family-wage jobs. He said if the ordinance could not be enforced equitably, the job should be left to other <br />regulatory agencies, and perhaps expanding the scope so it was more available. He said if the increasing <br />costs were passed on to small businesses, soon everyone would be working at Wal-Mart. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 14, 2005 Page 16 <br /> Regular Session <br /> <br /> <br />
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