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I I I I I 31~ 4 A REPORT rROM THE CITY MANAGER - RE: ApPRAISER rOR PROPERTY TO BE SOLD TO SCHOOL DISTRICT #4 WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS: w "PURSUANT TO A REPORT Or THE COUNCIL.S FINANCE COMMITTEE, ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL ON DECEMBER 27, 1948, MY OrrlCE NOTlrlED SCHOOL DISTRICT #4 Or YOUR DECISION TO SELL PARTS Or tOTS I AND 2, BLOCK 39, DRIVERTON ADDITION AT A PRICE TO BE DETERMINED BY APPRAISAL. -.... :.0 ~. ,...... HAVE AT HAND A LETTER rROM SCHOOL DISTRICT #4, ACKNOWLEDGING THIS COMMUNICATION AND SUGGESTING THE NAME OF W. R. ROBERTSON AS APPRAISER FOR THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION. I FEEL THAT MR. ROBERTSON IS COMPETENT TO HANDLE TH'5 MATTER AND WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT THE COUNCIL ACCEPT HIM AS AN APPRAISER AND REQUEST THAT SUCH APPRAISAL BE FURNISHED THE COUNCIL AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE T'ME IN ORDER THAT THIS MATTER MAY BE DISPOSED Or." .\ IT WAS MOVED BY HAWN, SECONDED BY CRUMBAKER THAT THE RECOMMENDATION BE ADOPTED AND MR. ROBERTSON APPROVED AS APPRAISER. MOTION CARR'ED. 5 A REPORT rROM THE CITY MANAGER - RE: SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT WAS SuBMITTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS: "As A MAJOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT rACES THE CITY Or EUGENE IN THE NEAR rUTURE, I SHOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND TO THE COUNCIL THAT IT AUTHORIZE A CARErUL REVIEW OF rlNANCING PLANS rOR THE CITY'S PROPOSED SEWAGE DiSPOSAL PLANT. AT THE PRESENT TIME, THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL CHARGE ASSESSED AGAINST WATER USERS IN THE CITY Or EUGENE AVERAGES TWENTY riVE CENTS PER MONTH. THIS FEE WAS ESTABLISHED SOME YEARS AGO AT A TIME WHEN THE ESTIMATED COST Of THE PLANT WAS LESS THAN $200,000. AT THE PRESENT TIME, AS YOU ARE AWARE, THE ESTIMATED COST OF THE STRUCTURE AND TREATMENT rACILITIES APPROXiMATES &700,000. AT THE PRESENT TIME WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY $240,000 ON HAND TO HELP DErRAY THESE COSTS PLUS AN AUTHORIZATION Or $85,000 IN REVENUE BONOS. AT THE TIME THAT THE O~DINANCE WAS PASSED SETTING THE MONTHLY SEWAGE DISPOSAL CHARGES, THIS MEASURE PROVIDED FOR PERIODICAL REVIEW Or SUCH CHARGES AND POSSIBLE REV'S'ON. I BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD BE MOST TIMELY TO TAKE TH'S INTO CONSiDERATION AT THE PRESENT TIME AND WOULD RECOMMEND TO YOU THAT THE SUBJECT BE RErERRED TO ONE Or THE STANDING COMMITTEES Or THE COUNCIL rOR INVEST'GATION AND REPORT." IT WAS MOVED BY HAWN, SECONDED BY DAVIS THAT THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION BE AOOPTED. MOTION CARRIED. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES 6 A REPORT OF THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE - RE: VACATION OF THE ALLEY BETWEEN 7TH AND 8TH AVENUE WEST WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "YOUR COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS TO WHOM WAS RErERRED THE MATTER OF THE PROPOSED VACATION Or A PORTION Or THE ALLEY BETWEEN 7TH & 8TH AVENUE WEST BEGS TO REPORT AS FOLLOWS: YOUR COMMITTEE HAS INVESTIGATED THIS MATTER AND CONrERRED WITH THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING THE PETITIONER fOR VACATION BUT WE rEEL THAT THE REQUEST FOR SUCH VACATION IS UNWARRANTED AND THAT THE ALLEY SHOULD REMAIN OPEN PENDING rUTURE DEVELOPMENT Or THE INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS AREA WHICH IT SERVES. WE THERErORE RECOMMEND TO THE COMMON COUNCIL THAT NO ACTION BE TAKEN ON THE REQUEST TO INITIATE VACATION PROCEEDINGS." IT WAS MOVED BY CRUMBAKERt SECONDED BY HAWN THAT THE REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION Or THE COMMITTEE BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 7 A rURTHER REPORT Or THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE - RE: CHANGE Or TRArrlC ISLANDS ON EAST BROADWAY WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "YOUR COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS TO WHOM WAS RErERRED A COMMUN'CATION rROM THE OREGON STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION - RE; REVISION Or PROPOSED TRArrlC ISLANDS ON EAST BROADWAY AT THE INTERSECTION Or THE M'LLRACE BEGS TO REPORT AS rOLLOWS: THAT IN VIEW Or THE rACT THAT THE COUNCIL MAY WISH TO rURTHER REVIEW THE ONE-WAY TRArrlC GRID SYSTEM IN THE CITY WHICH WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THE PROPOSED ISLAND CONSTRUCTION, WE RECOMMEND THAT SUCH REVISION BE MADE ON A TEMPORARY BASIS WITH USE OF BARRICADES OR SIMILAR STRUCTURES TO GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY Or OBSERVING THE OVER-ALL EFfECT OF THIS PROPOSAL UNDER ACTUAL TRAFrlC CONDITIONS." IT WAS MOVED BY BOOTH, SECONDED BY HAWN THAT THE CITY MANAGER'S OrrlCE ARRANGE A MEETING Or THE CHAMBER Or COMMERCE GROUP, THE SPECIAL COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON THE ONE-WAY GRID SYSTEM, THE CHIEr Or POLICE AND A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, AND THAT THE REPORT Or THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE BE DISCUSSED BY THIS GROUP. IT WAS rURTHER MOVED THAT THE DISCUSSION INCLUDE A REVIEW OF THE OPERATION OF THE GRID SYSTEM AND THAT THE PUBLic BE INV'TED TO ATTEND. MOTION CARRIED. i:_ -'~ -~~~,-_:--..;~...:.;-. _.... . ,.....-.. .;j;;. ;i... .,,~, '''';~\12~r>~:.-{,';'~~