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~ 5 e 4/27/59 IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MOLHOLM SECONDED BY MR. WILSON THAT THE COUNCIL'S ACTION Of APRIL 13, 1959 BE RESCINDED. IT WAS THEN MOVED BY MR. LINDEEN SECONDED BY MR. MCGAffEY THAT THIS MATTER BE TABLED UNTIL THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, APRIL 27, 1959. ON VOTE ON THE MOTION TO TABLE, THE MOTION WAS DEFEATED 5-3. A VOTE WAS THEN TAKEN ON THE MOTION TO RESCIND THE ACTION OF THE COUNCIL AND THIS MOTION WAS DEfEATED 4-4. /1 II ii p 1[ I, ii :1 I' ,I ,II It I, II I I, !i II i Ii Ii II I! '! :i I, il !i !I Ii " " " 1i Ii 'I I' II I' I I , i i J I " II I' )' 11 il Ii II :, il !I II I, II 'I II I II Ii II Ii II !: 'I !I !: !I I, ,I )' I Ii il Ii :1 I; I: I' \1 '\ II \1 " l~ I Fi \1 ~l ;'1 ,J ',\ I, MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, OF WHICH HE IS ONE, WERE REFERRED TO AS DOING THE BIDDING Of THE UNIVERSITY. HE SAID HE DID NOT BELIEVE THIS CEMETERY SITUATION IS STRICTLY A UNIVERSITY PROBLEM BUT IS A COMMUNITY PROBLEM AND A ENIGHBORHOOD PROBLEM, BUT THAT If THE DIRECTORS WERE DOING THE BIDDING OF THE UNIVERSITY, HE WOULD BE PROUD BECAUSE OF THE POSITION THE UNIVERSITY HA~ IN THE COMMUNITY BOTH CULTURALLY AND ECONOMICALLY. MR. EDMUNDS ALSO STATED THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET APPROVAL OF THE VARIOUS VETERANS' ORGANIZATIONS AND OTHER GROUPS BECAUSE OF THE NATURE Of THE MATTER BEING DISCUSSED, BUT THAT HE fELT THE PROGRAM OF REINTER- MENT EITHER AT THE PRESENT SITE IN A REDUCED AREA OR AT ANOTHER SITE IS WORTH WHILE, AND THE PROGRAM BEING CONSIDERED IS THE ONLY ONE WHICH HAS MADE PROGRESS AND IS FELT TO BE PRACTICAL AND BENEfiCIAL. 00 N' ~. , (,)! F"1-' ....... CO' e " , DR. EARL PALLETT APPEARED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE AND STATED THAT THE UNIVERSITY AND THE OREGON STATE BOARD Of HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SURPRISED AT THE COUNCIL'S ACTION. HE ALSO INDICATED THE PIONEER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION HAS A PROGRAM BENEFICIAL TO THE UNIVERSITY, TO THE CITY, TO THE PIONEER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION AND TO THE STATE BOARD OF HIGHER EDUCATION WHO IS INTERESTED IN THE SITUATION. HE EXPOUNDED THE, THESIS THAT EUGENE IS A RAPIDLY GROWING COMMUNITY AND THAT THE UNIVERSITY WILL GROW ALONG WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND IN TEN TO FifTEEN YEARS THE UNIVERSITY EXPECTS AN ENROLLMENT OF 10,000 TO 12,000 STUDENTS. BECAUSE Of THIS POTENTIAL ENROLLMENT, THE UNIVERSITY IS CONCERNED WITH LAND ACQUISITION AND TH I S AREA I S ONE Of THE MOST HAS I BLE fOR UN I VERS I TY EXPANS I ON /!"ROM/:ASCOST SWANOPOINT. UNDER THE ARRANGEMENT WHICH IS CONTEMPLATED IF THIS PROPERTY IS ACQUIRED THE OREGON STATE BOARD Of HIGHER EDUCATION WOULD PARTICIPATE IN THE COST OF REINTERMENT Of THOSE BODIES BURIED IN THE CEMETERY. ;1 " .' ,! I ,I I ;! '! DR. PALLETT ALSO STATED THAT THE ONLY THING SB 304 WOULD ALLOW THE COUNCIL TO DO WOULD BE TO PROHIBIT BURIALS IN THE CEMETERY; THESE BURIALS HAVE BEEN LIMITED IN THE PAST YEARS. ': 'I ,Ii MR. JOHN LUVAAS THEN SPOKE TO THE COMMITTEE. HE INDICATED HE WAS DISAPPOINTED IN THE COUNCIL'S ACTION AND FURTHER STATED THAT IN 1943 AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL HE SPENT A MONTH BRIEfiNG THE STATUS OF THE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION AS THEN EXISTED. MR. LUVAASSTA'iTED THAT AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH THE PIONEER MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION BELIEVES THERE ARE 4000 BODIES BURIED IN THE CEMETERY; OF THESE 4000 THEY HAVE THE NAMES OF 1,986 BUT DO NOT KNOW WHERE THE REMAINDER ARE BURIED AND IT IS POSSIBLE THERE IS A TOTAL OF 6000 BURIED IN THE CEMETERY. HE fURTHER STATED THAT THE CEMETERY HAS BEEN IN A STATE Of DISREPAIR FOR SOME TIME AND IS DANGEROUS TO THE ~ORALS AND MORALE Of STUDENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY. WITH REGARD TO THE PROGRAM OUTLINED BY SB 304, IT WOULD TAKE A LONG PERIOD TO COMPLETE AND THE MAJOR,OPPOSITION IS fROM WIDOWS AND SPOUSES OF THOSE BURIED IN THE CEMETERY WHO THEMSELVES WISH TO BE BURIED ALONGSIDE THEIR LOVED ONES. fOLLOWING THESE STATEMENTS THERE WAS A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION fROM MEMBERS Of THE COMMITTEE WITH REGARD TO THE ACTION TAKEN AT THE COUNCIL MEET- ING ON APRIL 13, 1959 TO OPPOSE THE PASSAGE OF SB 304. ALSO DISCUSSION WAS HAD AS TO THE PLANS Of BOTH THE GROUPS COMPETING FOR CONTROL OF THE CEMETERY AND WHAT THE PROPOSAL WOULD BE IF THE PLANS TO BE INTUATEO BY SB 304 WERE STARTED. IN THIS DISCUSSION, IT WAS REITERATED THAT SB 304 WOULD ALLOW THE COUNCIL TO STOP BURIALS ONLY. IT WAS ALSO POINTED OUT THAT THIS COULD BE ACCOMPLISHED UNDER EXISTING LAW PROVIDING NO BURIALS HAD BEEN MADE fOR A PERIOD or riVE YEARS, BUT THAT A LIMITED NUMBER OF BURIALS WERE MADE EACH YEAR WHICH MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO USE THIS PARTICULAR SECTION OF THE LAW. THE PROPOSAL NOW IS FOR A PERPETUAL CARE ARRANGEMENT WHERE THESE BODIES ARE REINTERRED. I i 'I IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MOLHOLM SECONDED BY MR. WILSON THAT THE COUNCIL RECONSIDER ACTION WITH RESPECT TO SB 304 TAKEN AT THEIR MEETING Of APRIL 13, 1959. I 1,/ , IT WAS MOVED BY MR. LINDEEN SECONDED BY MR. MOYER THAT THE MATTER BE TABLED. MOTION CARRIED 4-3, MR. SHEARER ABSTAINING. I :, :, 'J , , " 8. PERMANENT REPORT Of THE PLANNING COMMISSION - APRIL 7, 1959 A. REQUEST BY JOHN SCOFIELD TO REZONE R-2 TO R-3 AREA BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY 14TH AVENUE, ON THE SOUTH BY AMAZON SLOUGH, ON THE EAST BY OLIVE STREET AND ON THE WEST BY LINCOLN STREET - THE REQUESTED REZONING WAS CONSIDERED BY THE PLANNING COMM1SS$ON AND IT WAS THEIR RECOMMENDATION THAT THE RE- QUEST BE GRANTED. COMMITTEE MEMBERS VIEWED THE AREA AND RECOMMENDED THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION ACTION BE UPHELO GRANTING THE REQUESTED REZONING." I , e ;1 :i I I ~I " IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT ~HAT ITEM 8A OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. I