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BROWN, REPRESENTING THE EUGENE BOYS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATIPN, APPEARED BEfORE THE COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS THE LIGHTING Of THE BASEBALL fiELDS AT SOUTH WESTMORELAND PARK NEAR THE THOMAS JEFFERSON 'JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL AND THE CENTURY fiELD NEAR ROOSEVELT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. MR. BROWN GAVE A RESUME Of THE ACTIVITIES Of THE EUGENE BOYS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INDICATING IT IS STAfFED, WITH ONE EXCEPTION, BY VOLUNTEER PER- SONNEL, THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 1600 BOYS PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM PLUS 175 ADULTS, AND THAT THE SUPPORT COMES fROM ADULT MEMBERSHIP, JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP, DONORS, SPECIAL EVENTS, PROMOTIONS, GAMES, ETC. EXPENSES TO THE ASSOCIATION ARE fOR A PAID SUPERVISOR, fOR OPERATING EXPENSES, AND fOR Offi- CIALS. THE 1958 BUDGET fOR THE ORGANIZATION WAS $12,000.00, AND THE ANTICI- PATED 1959 BUDGET IS $15,000.00. IT WAS INDICATED THE fACILITIES ARE fURNISHED BY SCHOOL DISTRICTS AND PARK & RECREATION FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE AREA AND THAT A NEED IS FELT fOR BETTER AND MORE LIGHTED FIELDS SINCE THE EXISTING LIGHTED fiELD IN THE CITY Of EUGENE IS AT WASHINGTON PARK AND DOES NOT ALLOW fOR A REGULATION DIAMOND AND IS CURRENTLY BEING USED AS A TWO DIAMOND fIELD fOR YOUNGER PLAYERS. THE OLDER PLAYERS MUST PLAY SHORT SEASON AND DifFICULTY IS fOUND IN SCHEDULING GAMES AND COMPLETING GAMES BEfORE DARK; LIKEWISE, ADDITIONAL LIGHTED fACILITIES ARE NEEDED fOR SPECIAL EVENTS, STATE TOURNAMENTS AND OTHER EQUIVALENTS. BASED ON COST ESTIMATES, THEY HAVE RECEIVED A SURVEY Of THE MOST APPROPRIATE FIELDS fOR LIGHTING. SOUTH WESTMORELAND PARK FIELD, ALLOWING fOR TWO DIAMONDS, COULD BE DEVELOPED FOR APPROXIMATELY $10,000.00, WHILE CENTURY fiELD, WiTH ONE DIA- MOND, COULD BE DEVELOPED fOR $5000.00. BOTH ABOVE COSTS ARE APPROXIMATE AND TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION ANTICIPATED DONATED LABOR TO INSTALL SUCH fACILITIES. SPECifiCALLY, THE CITY WAS REQUESTED TO GIVE PERMISSION TO ERECT AND INSTALL LIGHTS AT THESE FIELDS, SPECifiCALLY SOUTH WESTMORELAND fiELD, AND SECONDLY, THAT THE PARK AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT CARE fOR AND MAINTAIN THE fIELD, IN- CLUDING THE LIGHTING COSTS, AND THIRDLY, THAT THE CITY MATCH $2500.00 ALLO- CATED BY THE EUGENE Boys ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION WITH AN ADDITIONAL $2500.00 FROM CITY FUNDS fOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION Of SUCH LIGHTING. TH~ PARKS & RECREATION SUPERINTENDENT INDICATED EUGENE BoyS ATHLETIC ASSOCIA- TION IS DOING A VERY GOOD JOB, THAT WASHINGTON PARK IS NOT LARGE ENOUGH fOR REGULATION SIZE DIAMONDS, BUT THAT HE DID NOT BELIEVE THE PARK DEPARTMENT COULD SUPPORT THE GIVING OF ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE PROGRAM. A RESUME OF THE PROPOSED COSTS WAS' GIVEN IN WHICH IT APPEARED THE SEASON COSTS FOR LIGHT- ING WOULD RUN APPROXIMATELY $tOOO.OO, THE RELAMPING COSTS WOULD BE APPROXI- MATELY $267.00, AND THE TOTAL MAINTENANCE COST WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $1300.00 PER YEAR. THESE COSTS wERE DEVELOPED ON A TWO-FIELD PROPOSAL WITH 176 LIGHTS AND APPROXIMATELY 63-HOUR PER MONTH USAGE. SOME DISCUSSION WAS HAD AS TO THE POSSIBILITIES OF USING THE CIVIC STADIUM AND IT WAS STATED THIS WOULD POSE SOME DiffICULTIES SINCE THE STADIUM IS NOT SET UP fOR BASEBALL EITHER IN THE LIGHTING OR THE TYPE OF fiELD. SOME QUESTIONS WERE ASKED REGARDING THE JOINT PARTICIPATION Of THE SCHOOL DIS- TRICT AND THE CITY OF EUGENE IN THE RECREATION PROGRAM WITH THE IDEA IN MIND THAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MIGHT PARTICIPATE IN SUCH A PROGRAM MORE HEAVILY. fOLLOWING SOME CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION ON THIS SUBJECT, IT WAS RECOMMENDED THE ITEM BE HELD OVER AND REFERRED TO THE BUDGET COMMITTEE. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. MOLHOLM THAT ITEM 7 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 8. PETITION FOR RAVING 27TH AVENUE FROM JACKSON TO TYLER STREET - IT WAS EX- PLAINED THAT A PETITION HAD BEEN PRESENTED CONTAINING SIGNATURES or OWNERS Of 55% Of THE PROPERTY TO BE ASSESSED REQUESTING THE PAVING Of 27TH AVENUE fROM JACKSON TO TYLER STREET, BUT THAT SINCE THAT TIME A PETITION HAD BEEN RECEIVED ALSO CONTAINING SIGNATURES Of OWNERS OF 55% Of THE PROPERTY TO BE ASSESSED OBJECTING TO SUCH PAVING. THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT ALSO SUG- GESTED THAT THE PAVING BE HELD UP BECAUSE Of THE NECESSITY FOR SEwER IN- STALLATION ON THIS STREET IN THIS AREA. MR. fLYNN, A PROPERTY HOLDER IN THE AREA, APPEARED BEFORE THE COMMITTEE, INDICATED A NUMBER Of PEOPLE OB- JECTED TO IT SINCE IT IS A DEAD END STREET, AND THAT AT THE TIME THE PETI- TION fOR PAVING WAS ORIGINALLY CIRcuLATED THEY HAD APPARENTLY RECEIVED SOME ERRONEOUS INfORMATION. IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT THE REQUEST FOR PAVING BE DENIED." IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. MOLHOLM THAT ITEM 8 OF THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. A REPORT fROM THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR TO STUDY TRAfFIC ON 6TH AND 7TH AVE- NUES WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS fOLLOWS: "THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR TO STUDY TRAFFIC AND PARKING PROBLEMS ON 6TH AND 7TH AVENUES AND OTHER AREAS Of THE CITY, AS WELL AS PARK- ~