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r- 246 tit 11/23/59, . - -- -.- -- - --- _. -- ~ ---- I COUNCIL BILL No. 4765 - RE: ANNEXING AREA IN VICINITY OF 30TH AVENUE AND MADISON STREET ( 100% 1 CONSENT) WAS SUBMITTED AND READ THE FIRST TI~E I N FULL. I I I I IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE READ THE SECOND TIME BY I' COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT Of THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND Ii THE BILL WAS READ THE SECOND TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY. I' IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. I' LAURIS THAT THE RULES BE SUSPENDED AND THE BILL I BE READ THE THIRD TIME BY 70UNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT Of THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND THE BILL WAS READ THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL ~MBER ONLY. 1 ,I IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. " LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE APPROVED AND GIVEN fiNAL ,: PASSAGE. ROLLCALL VOTE. AL~ COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE, THE BILL WAS DECLARED PASSED AND II II NUMBERED 11637. " , - 'I 'I Ij 2 MR. BALZHISER, A RESIDENT Of THE BRYCLER PARK AREA, APPEARED BEfORE THE COUNCIL AND STATED THE II e AREA COVERED BY C. B.4765 ANNEXED TO THE C /TY OF EUGENE APPEA'RS TO BE CONT I NGENT UPON THE AREA PRE- II VIOUSLY ANNEXED TO THE CITY AS fAR AS THE LOCATION Of SEWERS AND OTHER UTILITIES IS CONCERNED. HE INDICATED THAT THE BRYCLER PARK AREA NOW HAS A DEfINITE'SANITATION PROBLEM AND THAT RESIDENTS Of THE ,I II AREA ARE QUITE CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROBLEM. HE STATED HE HAD BEEN INfORMED AS Of THE DATE Of THIS 'I I' MEETING THAT SEWERS TO THIS AREA MAY NOT BE fORTHCOMING fOR THREE TO fOUR YEARS AND WAS Of THE OPINION ,i THAT MORE IMMEDIATE ACTTON SHOULD BE TAKEN TO GET SEWERS TO THE AREA. 1\ I THE DIRECTOR Of PUBLIC WORKS EXPLAINED THAT UNDER PRESENT SCHEDULING, SEWERS ARE SCHEDULED TO Ii I I THIS AREA IN THE fALL Of 1960. 11 I' MRS. HOffMAN, ANOTHER RESIDENT or BRYCLER PARK, LIKEWISE APPEARED, INDICATED BRYCLER PARK RESI- II Ii DENTS HAD REQUESTED_ SEWERS I N THE (fALL Of 1958 BUT AT THAT TIME HAD BEEN TOLD IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE TO II GRANT THEIR REQUEST AND WERE ASSURED THEY HAD A PRIORITY. SHE THEN STATED THAT PERMITS WERE ISSUED I; I fOR ADDITIONAL HOUSES IN THE VICINITY Of 24TH AVENUE BETWEEN ADAMS AND TYLER STREETS THAT WERE NOT ,I BUILT, AND LATER A PERMIT WAS ISSUED fOR A HOUSE LOCATED SOUTH Of 28TH AVENUE AND GENERALLY BETWEEN 1\ POLK AND CHAMBERS STREETS, WHICH WOULD SERVE TO ADD TO THE PRESUMED OVERLOADED SEWER LINE TO WHICH II BRYCLER PARK RESIDENTS HAD BEEN DENIED ACCESS. MRS. HOffMAN ALLEGED' THAT THE COUNC I L WAS GUI L TY I' 'j Of FAVORITISM IN ALLOWING SUCH CONNECTIONS AND THAT RESIDENTS OF BRYCLER PARK ARE QUITE CONCERNED It ABOUT THE HEALTH PROBLEM IN THEIR AREA AS IT RESPECTS THE VARIOUS fAMILIES LIVING THERE. SHE FUR- l' THER STATED THAT RESIDENTS HAD ATTEMPTED TO REMAI,N CALM IN ANTICIPATION Of SEWER CONSTRUCTION, THAT I' ,\ THEY DO NOT WISH TO HOUND THE COUNCIL, BUT THAT THEY ARE NOW QUITE CONCERNED SINCE"THESE ADDI- I! TIONAL CONNECTIONS HAD BEEN MADE. 1\ THE CITY ATTORNEY EXPLAINED THAT IN THE CASE OF THE SEWER LINES ON 24TH AVENUE BETWEEN ADAMS Ii I AND TYLER STREETS, IT HAD ORIGINALLY BEEN AS~~SSED TO THE PROPERTY A~D THE CITY C~ULD NOT LtGALLY I' I DENY ACCESS. SECONDLY, WITH RELATION TO THE ADDITIONAL CONNECTION SOUTH OF 28TH AVENUE BETWEEN POLK II Ii AND CHA~BE~S, THIS ~AS.DONE ON A CONTRA~TUAL BASIS WITH THIS CONNECTION BEING THE ONLY ONE WHICH IS il ! ALLOWED AT PRESENT OR WHICH WILL BE ALLOWED. , , II j COUNCILMEN SHEARER COMMENTED THAT THE COUNCIL IN NO RESPECT HAD APPEARED TO PLAY fAVORITES; I THEY HAD TAKEN INDIVIDUAL SITUATIONS AS THEY APPEARED AND IN LIGHT OF THE PECULIAR CI~CUMSTANCES I: I I OFEACH INDIVIDUAL APPLICATION. II Ii , I MRS. HOffMAN THEN STATED THAT SHE BELIEVES ABSOLUTELY NO ONE SHOULD ~~ ALLOWED TO MAKE .CON- 11 NECTION TO THE SEWER LINE BEFORE SEWERS ARE EXTENDED TO THE BRYCLER PARK AREA. CO~NCILMAN WILSON COMPLIMENTED MRS. HOFFMAN FOR HER STAND, SUGGESTED THAT THE COUNCIL IS AWARE II OF PROBLEMS IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND IN THE CITY ADMINISTRATION, AND IS Of THE BELIEF CHANGES r MAY HAVE TO BE MADE. il e COUNCIL~OMAN LAURIS SUGGESTED THAT THE NEW APPROACH OF PLANNING fOR SEWERS AND OTHER DEVELOP- I! - , . MENTS WOULD ENABLE THE CITY TO SERVE THESE AND OTHER COMPARABLE AREAS THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN AN I ORDERLY fASHION. .1 ! COUNCILMAN MOLHOLM EXP.LAINED THAT THE COUNCIL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LACK OF SEWERS SINCE IT IS NECESSARY THAT FUNDS BE PROVIDED AND THAT THIS IS NOT A LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART Of THE I CITY MANAGER NOR THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. I , IN THE COURSE Of THE CONVERSATION IT WAS fURTHER EXPLAINED THAT FINANCING THIS PROJECT _'S THE II MAJOR PROBLEM AND THAT THE SEWER LINES CAN ONLY BE BUILT AS RAPIDLY AS FUNDS ARE FORTHCOMING. II 'f 3 COUNCIL BILL No. 4766 - RE: DISPENSING WITH ELECTION IN CITY ON ANNEXATION OF WILLAKENZIE AND Ii OAKWAY WATER DISTRICT AREA WAS SUBMITTED AND READ THE FIRST TIME IN FULL. II IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE BILL BE READ THE SECOND TIME BY Ii I I COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UN~NIMOUS CONSENT OF THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND i! I' THE BILL WAS READ THE SECOND TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY. tl IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT THE RULES BE SUSPENDED AND THE BILL BE READ THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY, WITH UNANIMOUS CONSENT Of THE COUNCIL. MOTION II I CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY AND THE BILL WAS READ THE THIRD TIME BY COUNCIL BILL NUMBER ONLY. I I I e I; ~\ I,