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",... 18 6 e 5/26/5~_ - I COUNCIL CHAMBER EUGENE, OREGON MAY 26, 1958 I THE REGULAR MEETiNG OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY or EUGENE WAS HELD ON MAY 12, i958 AND AD- JOURNED TO MAY 26, 1958 AT 7:30 PM IN THE COUNCIL ,CHAMBER.' IN THE ABSENCE OF HIS HONOR, MAYOR J; J. MCGINTY, THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT C. F. SHEARER WITH THE FOLLOWING COUNCIL- MEN PRESENT: MR. HARTMAN, MR. EDMUNDS, MRS. LAURIS, MR. LINDEEN AND MR. MCGAFFEY. MESSRS. SHISLER AND MOLHOLM WERE ABSENT. THE MINUTES Of THE REGULAR MEETING or MAY 12, 1958, AS MAILED TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, WERE APPROVED. INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MCGAFFEY SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE QUESTION or USING SPENCER BUTTE rOR A TV TRANSMITTER BE RErERRED TO THE PEOPLE rOR A VOTE IN THE NOVEMBER GENERAL ELECTION. e A COMMUNICATION DATED MAY 23, 1958 FROM KEITH D. SKELTON, ATTORNEY FOR KEED, INC., WAS PRESENTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: "THIS LETTER WILL ADVISE YOU or THE ACCEPTANCE BY KEED, INCORPORATED or THE orrER OF THE CITY OF EUGENE TO LEASE A PORTION OF SPENCER'S BUTTE FOR 'TELEVISION PURPOSES, SUBJECT TO THE DETAILS or THE PROPOSED LEASE SET fORTH IN YOUR orFER or MAY 13TH, 1958. 1 IN RELIANCE ON THIS OFrER KEED, INCORPORATED HAS fiLED AN APPLICATION FOR CHANNEL 9 WITH THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, DESIGNATING SPENCER'S BUTTE AS THE LOCATION OF THE TRANSMITTER TOWER. As YOU KNOW, KEED, INCORPORATED IS IN COMPETITION WITH OTHER APPLICANTS FOR THE SAME CHANNEL AND THE FAILURE OR SUCCESS or KEED's APPLICATION MAY VERY WELL DEPEND UPON THE LOCATION or THE TRANSMITTER TOWER. IN BEHALF OF KEED, INCORPORATED, THERErORE, I AM AUTHORIZED TO INFORM YOU THAT WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATE THE OPPOR- TUNITY EXTENDED TO THE CORPORATION rOR THE USE or THIS AREA AS A SITE rOR A TRANS- MITTER TOWER." ALSO, A COMMUNICATION DATED MAY 23, 1958 FROM EUGENE RECREATION COMMISSION WAS PRESENTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS: "AT A RECENT MEETING OF THE EUGENE RECREATION COMMISSION, CONSIDERABLE DIS- CUSSION WAS DEVOTED TO THE COUNCIL ACTION CONCERNING THE USE OF SPENCER BUTTE rOR TELEVISION PURPOSES. As YOU MUST REALIZE, MANY or THE OPINIONS WERE NOT IN ACCORD WITH THE COUNCIL THINKING AND THE UNDERSIGNED orrlCERS HAVE BEEN RE- QUESTED TO CONVEY THE COMMISSION ATTITUDE. IT IS FELT BY THE EUGENE RECREATION COMMISSION'THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ACTED SOMEWHAT HASTILY IN THE ABOVE MENTIONED MATTER. IT IS FURTHER REALIZED THAT THE COUNCIL'S ACTION WAS WITHIN AUTHORITY AS GRANTED BY A VOTE OF THE GENERAL ELECTORATE A FEW YEARS BACK AND THAT THE TERMS OF THE TEMPORARY LEASE AGREEMENT WERE IN ACCORD WITH THE SUGGESTED PROCEDURE AS RECOMMENDED BY THIS COMMISSION rOLLOWING THAT EXPRESSION BY THE CITIZENS OF EUGENE. I SINCE THIS ISSUE HAS CAUSED A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT or COMMENT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, THIS COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND ITS SERVICES TO THE EUGENE CITY COUNCIL IN ANY CAPACITY THE COUNCIL MAY DESIRE. PERHAPS ~URTHER STUDY WOULD HELP TO RESOLVE THIS MATTER SO THAT THE MAJORITY or THE PEOPLE WOULD ACCEPT WHATEVER DECISION IS MOST ADVANTAGEOUS fOR THE GROWTH OF THIS COMMUNITY AND STILL PRESERVE THE NATURAL BEAUTY WITH WHICH WE HAVE BEEN SO GRACIOUSLY ENDOWED." - AFTER CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION DURING WHICH THE CITY ATTORNEY POINTED OUT THAT AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEET I NG THE COUNC I L AGREED TO ENTER I NTO A CONTRACT WI TH KEED, I NC. FOR THE I NSTALLAT I ON OF:,A, TV TRANSMITTER ON SPENCER BUTTE AND THAT IT WOULD NOT BE CONSISTENT rOR THE COUNCIL NOW TO REFER THE MATTER TO THE PEOPLE rOR A VOTE, MR. MCGAFFEY WITHDREW HIS MOTION AND MRS. LAURIS WITHDREW HER SECOND. I 2/1 11 STREET PAVING 1 I )WI DTH I I I THIS BEING THE DATE SET rOR THE AWARD OF CONTRACTS rOR VARIOUS IMPROVEMENT. PROJECTS, THE FOLLOW- ING BIDS WERE TABULATED AS OPENED ON MAY 22, 1958 AT 10:00 AM: PROJECT AND NAME or BIDDER VILLARD STREET CENTER STRIPS BOULEVARD TO 14TH AVENUE CENTRAL HEAT~NG CO. STANTON PAYNE WILDISH CONSTRUCTION CO. ,EST IMATED COST PER FRONT FOOT $ 1,709.08 (LOW) 2,225.95 2,254.15 I rROM FRANKLIN e ~\ I II :I