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e I e I "I 'I 'I :r I " " , I '! :, -I i " q :1 'I ~1 " fJ " ;1 I " 'I 'I :i " ,,' " I! Iii .! if 2 :r n ',! ': )'1 ,I it :1 "" I e ~ ! !I ,i '! , 'j '. ,I :1 ,I I ;f ,I ;r I :1 :i " ;1 ,) ~! I , ;~ 24TH.AvENUE TO AMAZON DRIVE 25TH AVENUE TO SOUTH CITY LIMITS (RIGHT-Of-WAY ONLY SOUTH Of 29TH PLACE) BROADWAY TO 19TH AVENUE 30TH AVENUE FROM HILYARD TO EAST CITY LIMITS 29TH AVENUE fROM LINCOLN TO CITY VIEW 1ST TO 4TH CONNECTOR INCLUDING HIGH TO WASHINGTON AND A STORM SEWER fROM WASHINGTON TO ADAMS JEfFERSON STREET FROM 26TH TO 29TH WIDENING Of 11TH FROM WILLAMETTE TO KINCAID AND PAVING AND WIDENING Of 11TH fROM GARfIELD TO ,CHAMBERS PAVING HILYARD fROM 24TH TO 39TH AND FROM BROADWAY TO 11TH, THE LATTER INCLUDING 42 fOOT WIDTH WITH BRIDGE AND STORM SEWER PAVING EAST AMAZON fROM HILYARD TO DILLARD AND fROM DILLARD TO DILLARD PAVING DILLARDROAD fROM HILYARD TO DILLARD PAVING CITY VIEW fROM IITH'TO 18TH PAVING GARfiELD fROM 6TH TO ROOSEVELT INCLUDING A STORM SEWER PAVING 8TH fROM CHAMBERS TO GRANT, 24TH fROM POLK TO CHAMBERS AND fROM FRIENDLY TO JEffERSON STORM SEWER, BRIOGES AND ROAD WIDENING IN THE WILLAKENZIE AREA THE TOTAL OF A~L OF THESE PROJECTS AMOUNTS TO $3,100,000 WHICH, IF ~NE WERE TO ADD 5% fOR TAX DELINQUENCIES AND DISCOUNTS, WO~'D REQUIRE A TOTAL LEVY OVER A 10-YEAR PERIOD OF $3,255,000. IT WAS POINTED OUT FURTHER THAT THE EXISTING 10-YEAR LEVY WILL NOT EXPIRE UNTIL THE END Of THE 1960-61 BUDGET YEAR AND SOME DISCUSSION WAS HAD ON WHETHER THE PROPOSED LEVY SHOULD START IMMEDIATELY OR SHOULD START WITH THE 1961-62 BUDGET YEAR. DISCUSSION WAS ALSO GIVEN AS TO THE NEED FOR THE 1ST TO 4TH CONNECTOR SINCE IT APPEARS THAT A NORTH BANK ROAD WILL BE BUILT BY THE STATE TO CONNECT THE FERRY STREET BRIOGE TO THE PROPOSED WASHINGTON-JEfFERSON STREET BRIDGE. DISCUSSION WAS HAD ON THE TRAfFIC PROBLEMS AS THEY RELATE TO ~HE FERRY STREET BRIDGE AND TO AREAS WHICH MIGHT BE SERVED ~Y THE PROPOSEO 1ST TO 4TH CONNECTOR. DISCUS- SION WAS ALSO HAD '"ON -THE .POSSIBLE' SEGREGATION OF' THE SPENCE'R BUTTE ARTERIAL fOR PURPOSES Of THE ELECTION. FOLLOWING THE DISCUSSION IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT A BALLOT MEASURE BE PREPARED fOR A 10-YEAR CROSSTOWN STREET AND ARTER I'AL LEVY TO BEG I N WITH THE fI SCAL YEAR 1961-62 IN THE SUM Of $300,000 PER YEAR fOR A TOTAL LEVY Of $3 MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE IO-YEAR PERIOD. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MR. MOLHOLM THAT ITEM 2 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. 3. CONSIDERATION Of PLAC1NG ON BALLOT ON MAY 20, 1960 PRIMARY ELECTION A CHARTER CHANGE TO INCREASE AND CONTINU& A SPECIAL ~EVY fOR PARK PROGRAM - A LETTER fROM THE EUGENE RECREATION COMMISSION WAS READ TO THE COMMITTEE WHICH IN SUM- MARY S~ATED THAT THE EUGENE RECREATtON COMMISSION-HAS ATTEMPTED AN EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF THE PROPOSED PARKS 10-YEAR'PROGRAM. THE LETTER STATED THAT THE COM- MISSION HAD CONSIDERED A PROGRAM AMOUNTING TO APPROXIMATELY $3 MILLION DOLLARS, BUT IN RECOGNlTI,ON Of'THE INCREASED TAXAT.ION SUCH' A PROGRAM WOULD BRING INA 10-YEAR PERIOD, HAD REOUCED THE PROGRAM TO ITS ESSENTIALS KEEPING IN MIND THE MINIMUM STANDARDS fOR RE,CREATION SERVI'CE WHICH ,WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE SOCIETY Of OUR TIME, AND IN THIS RESPECT HAD' UNANIMOUSLY RECOMMENDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND, THE BUDGET COMMITTEE THAT A 10-YEAR LEVY Of $160,000 PER YEAR BE SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE. IN THE OPINION Of THE COMMISSION If THIS SUM WERE NOT MADE AVAILABLE THE PRICES Of PRESENT INEXPENSIVE PARK SITES COULD RISE TO WHERE THE PROPERTY WOULO BE DiffICULT TO ACQUIRE AND THE ECONOMIES OffERED BY JOINT PARK-SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT COULD NOT BE REALIZED SINCE THE CITY WOULD NOT HAVE fUNDS TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.' SOME CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION WAS HAD ON A LIST Of PROJECTS WHICH WERE PRE- SENTED BY THE PARKS & RECREATION SUPERINTENDENT AND IN THIS DISCUSSION SOME QUESTIONS WERE RAISED AS TO THE ADVISABILITY Of SUCH A LARGE PROGRAM fOR PARK DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITION. FOLLOWING THIS DISCUSSION IT WAS RECOMMENDED THAT A BALLOT MEASURE BE PREPARED fOR A la-YEAR PROGRAM BASEO ON $150,000 PER YEAR LEVY TO RAISE A TOTAL SUM Of $1,500,000 WHICH WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A 2-MILL LEVY fOR THE AVERAGE Of THE TEN YEAR PERIOO. MOTION CARRIED UNANI- MO USL Y . IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SHEARER SECONDED BY MRS. LAURIS THAT ITEM 3 Of THE COMMITTEE REPORT BE APPROVED. MOTION CARRIED. ~ 4. CONSIDERATION Of PLACING ON BALLOT ON MAY 20, 1960 PRIMARY ELECTION A CHARTER CHANGE fOR RELOCATION, PURCHASE Of SITE, AND CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW CITY HALL - DISCUSSION WAS HAD ON THIS SUBJECT AND IT WAS GENERALLY AGREED THAT ANY BALLOT 3 1 ~r~ 2/8/60 I I I JI II 1I it r 11 ;' " ii 'I 1/ I I I !I \1 II I' II /1 d !I II I! II 'I il 'I II 'I II :i 'I !I Ii il II I' 'I 'I I. n ,I Ii I, II Ii d 'I 11 II ,: Ii jl II II ,I il Ii 'I II II ,I " II 11 II 11 II It II II :, I i I 1 \ 11 'I II \1 ~