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537-" e --- - --_. --- -- . -- --- -~ ----- --- ------- --~-~---- ----~---~- -- - - ._~--~_.- . - - -~ - .... -'-~".--- - . - --- ._~ ~ - ..' . ~ - -. - - 'p- - - . - - ~ ....- ....._:....~~._._ '..~..--_._> -2_' " . . _ -" -- ~.'r _.~ ----- -,~ -~-~~ -- . --- -- I I "PRESE NT: MAYOR JOHNSON; COUNCI,U4EN BOOTH, KOPPE ~AND GODLOVE; CITY MANAGER; SENIOR I BUILDING INSPECTOR; fiRE MARSHALL; CITVENGiNEER; CITY ATTORNEY; CITY RECORDER; MR. il JOHN F'OREMAN; MR. DAVID PETERSEN; AND MR. TOM JAQUES Of THE EUlNE REGISTER-GUARD. II I . REQUEST fOR CONDEMNATION Of' ABANDONED HOUSE AT THE NORTH END Of' MONROE STREET - THE II COMMITTEE, DURING THEIR fiELD TRIP, INSPECTED THIS HOUSE AND IT WAS AGREED THAT IT WAS I IN A VERY DANGEROUS CONDITION, AND BECAUSE Of THtS THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THE HOUSE I BE CONDEMNED BECAUSE THE.BUILDING IS UNSAfE ~AND UNSANITARY. IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT A I DATE BE SET fOR HEARING ON THE CONDEMNATION~f THIS PROPERTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE I PROVISIONS OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 8292. Ii 2. SIDEWALK ON 18TH AVENUE BETWEEN 'ALDER AND UNIVERSITY STREETS - THE COMMITTEE DIS- II CUSSED THE MATTER Of' INSTALLING SIDEWALKS ON 18TH AVENUE BETWEEN ALDER AND UNIVERSITY STREETS AND RECOMMENDED THAT AN ORDINANCE BE DRAWN AUTHO~IZING THE CONST~UCTION Of'. I SIDEWALKS fROM ALDER TO UNIVERSITY STREETS' ON BOTH SIDES Of' 18TH AVENUE. THEY FURTHER I RECOMMENDED THAT CURB SIDEWALKS BE AUTHORIZED ON THE NORTH SIDE Of THE STREET. THIS I ACTION WAS TAKEN BECAUSE 18TH AVENUE, WHEN COMPLETED, WILL BE AN ARTERIAL STREET, WILL BE e USED F'OR PARKING f'OR PUBLIC rUNCTIONS HELD AT MAcARTHUR COURT, AND WILL BE VERY DANGEROUS TO PERSONS PARKI NG IN THE AREA U' 51 DEWALK5 ARE NOT I NSTALLED ON BOTH 51 DES OF" THE STREET BECAUSE IT' WOULD REQUIRE ,THEM TO DITHER CROSS THE STREET TO GET TO SIDEWALKS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OR TO USE THE STREET TO GET fROM THEIR VEHICLES TO UNIVERSITY STREET. t 3. REQUEST FOR ALLEY CROSSOVER BETWEEN THE MEDI CAL CENTER BU'I LDI NG AND THE PROPOSED NEW I PARKING BUILDING -THE COMMITTEE VIEWED THE AREA Of THE PROPOSED INSTALLATION AND,' I RECOMMENDED THAT lM[ COUNCIL APPROVE A FRANCHISE rOR SUCH A STRUCTURE, SUCH fRANCHISE TO I I BE DRAWN SO THAT ANY RELOCATION or THE UTILITY fACILITIES L~CATED .IN THE ALLEYS BE MADE I AT NO COST TO THE CITY, THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRI.C BOARD, PACIf'lC .TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH I COMPANY, OR ANY OTHER UTILITY USING THE OVERHEAD AREA. I I IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE COMMITtEE THAT THIS rRANCHtSE BE APPROVED, AS STATED I I ABo.VE. I : I REQUEST BY T. C. WILDISH fOR AN EXTENSI,ON Of' TIME ON IMPROVEMENT CONTRACTS - THE CITY Ii 4. Ii MANAGER 'I NDICATED THAT :LETTERS HAD BEE.N RECE I~VED fROM T .C. WILDI SH REQUESTI NG AN II EXTENSION OF TIME ON THEIR CONTRACTS raR THE INSTALLATION OF SIDEWALKS IN THE .AREAcBOUNDED II BY ALDER AND WILLAMETTE STREETS 'ROM 17TH Tof9TH AVENUES, AND ON THE STORM SEWER'IN THE AREA BETWEEN F'RIEHDLY AND POLK STREETS :fROM 24TH TO 26TH AVENUES. MR.WILDISH EXPLAINED . I IN HIS LETTER THAT THE CONSTRUCTION HAD BEEN DELAYED IN BOTH CASES DUE TO THE WET CONDI- I TIGN or THE GROUND. I : ,I IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION or THE COMMITTEE THAT THE COMPUETION DATE BE EXTENDED fROM AUGUST 1ST TO AUGUST 12, 1955. . . . I I 5. CONSIDERATION or EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY WITH THE BRAATZ FAMILY -, THE MApTER or EX- I CHANGING PROPERTY BETWEEN THE BRAATZ FAMILY AND THE CITY Of EUGENE FOR THE RIGHT OF WAY I II rOR DONALD STREET BETWEEN 38TH AND 39TH AVENUES AND ONE-HALf' BLOCK NORTH OF 38TH AVENUE II WAS DISCUSSED BY THE COMMITTEE. THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR DONALD STREET FOR THESE AREAS IS OFF"CENTER 2~G3 F'EET. THEBRAATZ ~AMILY HAS AGREED TO DEDICATE 2.03 'fEET ON THE WEST SIDE I 1.1 OF THE STREET IN EXCHANGE rOR A DEED FROM THE CITY Of' AN EQUIVALENT 'AMOUNT ON THE E~ST ,I SIDE OF' THE STREET. II I IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION OF' THE COMMITTEE THAT THIS EXCHANGE BE APPROVED AND THAT I 1 THE PROPER CITY OFFICIALS BE 'AUT.HORIZED TO SIGN, A DEED., : I 6. GARFIELD STREET RIGHT Of WAY - THE MATTER OF THE ~CQUISITION OF RIGHT OF WAY FOR I GARrlELDSTREET 'BETWEEN 7TH 'AND IrTH AVENUES WAS AGAIN DISCUSSED BY THECOMMITTEE WITH e I MR. F'OREMAN AND MR. PETERSEN PRESENT.- AFTER A GENER~L DISCUSSI~N OF' ~HE MATTER IN WHICH 'MESSRS. F'OREM'AN AND .PETERSEN AGREED TO DEED THE PROPERTY WHI CH THEU CURRENTLY OWN I N THE I RIGHT OF WAY AREA IN EXCHANGEqrOR THEIPROPERT:o( WHrCH THE ;CITY IS: OBTAINING FR"OM THE I Ii I \1 OREGON STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT, PROVI,aED.THE CITY WOULD MOVE THEIS~RVICE STATION ON THE I PROPOSED CORNER OF 7TH AVENUE AND GARfiELD STREET. THE CITY MANAGER WAS INSTRUCTED TO ,I F'INO THE ?OTENTIAL COST or MOVING THE STATION EAST TO ITS NEW LOCATION. HE WAS ALSO I 'Ii INSTRUCTED TO I.VESTfGA1E THE ACQUISITION O~THE PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY EAST OF ~HE PROPOSED I Ii GAR~IELD ST~EET NOW IN THE OWNERSHIP Of THE OREGON STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. IT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION OF THECOMMITTEE THAT THIS MATTER BE APPROVED." --'r ~ , .. IN REGARD TO ITEM No. I, ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTED AYE' W~ITH THE ,EXCEPTION; OF,MR. OWEN I WHO ABSTAINED. MR. SHEARER ABSENT. I 'I T WAS MOVED BY MR. 'KOPPE,- SECONDED~ By'MR. BOOTH THAT THE BALANCE, OF' THE'REPORT OF THE i PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE BE ADOPTED. MOTION CARRIED. I 12 A REPORT OF' THE PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE MEETING HELD ON AUGUST 8, 1955 - RE: AWARD OF CONTRACT FOR STORM SEWER BIDI AWARD or CONTRACTS FOR INSTALLING IRRIGATION SYSTEMS, AND ACQUISITION OF RIGHT OF WAY fOR GARfiELD STREET WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: e I I II II I ..... II