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~;' ,-. '-', . I> ',' ~ l~c e 1/9/61 - COUNCIL CHAMBER EUGENE, OREGON JANUARY 9, 196 I II II ! I THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EUGENE WAS HELD JANUARY 9, 1961 AT 7:30 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER. THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY HIS HONOR MAYOR E. E. CONE WITH THE FOLLOW- ING COUNCILMEN PRESENT: MRS. LAURIS, MESSRS. MOLHOLM, CHATT, MOYER, WILSON, SWANSON, CHRISTENS~N AND DEVERELL. l THE INVOCATION WAS GIVEN BY REV. GEORGE R. ASHWOOD. THE MINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED MEETING HELD DECEMBER 27~ 1960, AS MAILED TO MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, WERE APPROVED. INTRODUCTION OF NEW BUSINESS 1[ i: -I ELECTION OF PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL IN ACCO~DANCE WITH SECTION 33, CHAPTER VI I, OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EUGENE AS FOLLOWS: e AT THE FIRST REGULAR MEETING OF THE COUNCIL IN JANUARH IN EACH YEAR, OR AS SOON THERE- AFTER AS PRACTICABLE, THE COUNCIL SHALL CHOOSE BY BALLOT ONE OF ITS MEMBERS TO PRESIDE OVER THE COUNCIL AND PERFORM THE DUTIES, OF MAYOR IN THE ABSENCE OF THE MAYOR FROM THE CITY, ORIF HE BE FROM ANY CAUSE UNABLE TO ACT AS SUCH, SAID PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL SHALL HAVE ~ND EXER- CISE THE POWERS AND PERFORM ALL THE DUTIES OF MAYOR." I IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SWANSON ~BA~NCA~HERINE LAURIS BE NOMINATED. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MOYER THAT WALLACE SWANSON BE NOMINATED. A SECRET BALLOT WAS TAKEN, AND IT WAS THEN MOVED BY MR. MOYER SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE RECORDER BE INSTRUCTED TO CAST A UNANIMOUS BALLOT FOR CATHERINE LAURIS FOR THE POSITION OF PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. p 2 , A MESSAGE FROM MAYOR EDWIN E. CONE WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: liTHE CONCEPT OF BETTER GOVERNMENT AT THE HEART OF A BETTER CITY HAS MOULDED THE RESULTS OF ALL OUR EFFORT INTO A PROGRESSIVE YEAR FOR THE CITY OF EUGENE. FOR MANY YEARS PEOPLE THOUGHT OF EUGENE AS A MEDIUM-SIZE UNIVERSITY TOWN AND LUMBER COMMUNITY LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE W,LLAMETTE VALLEY. IN 1940 IT WAS A CITY OF 20,838 POPULATION. AT THE CLOSE OF WORLD WAR I I EUGENE'S RAPID GROWTH BEGAN. BY 1950 THE POPULATION WAS 35,899 AND THE 1960 CENSUS LISTED OUR POPULATION AS 50,987. OREGON AND THE ENTIRE NORTHWEST WERE FORCED TO TAKE A LONG,SECOND LOOK AT EUGENE WHICH HAD MUSHROOMED INTO A METROPOLITAN AREA AND AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRIAL MARKET AND HAD GAINED NATIONAL RECOG- NITION. IF EUGENE'S POPULATION CONTINUES AT THE RATE OF THE LAST TEN YEARS AND WITH A NORMAL AMOUNT OF ANNEXATIONS efl SURROUNDING AREAS (NOT INCLUDING RIVER ROAD), OUR 1970 POPULATION COULD REACH 85,000. THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ALONE ESTIMATES THAT ITS ENROLLMENT WILL JUMP FROM 7,652 STUDENTS IN 1960 TO 13,293 STUDENTS IN 1970. 1960 WILL BE REMEMBERED AS EUGENE'S VITAL YEAR BECAUSE IT WAS THE YEAR WE REACHED METROPOLITAN STATUS, ONE OF ONLY TWO IN OREGON AND ONE OF FIVE IN THE NORTHWEST. THE EUGENE METROPOLITAN AREA RANKS ABOUT 160TH OF THE 212 STANDARD METROPOLITAN AREAS IN THE UNITED STATES. IT RANKS 74TH IN A LISTING OF THE 100 TOP INDUSTRIAL MARKETS IN THE UNITED STATES. EUGENE'S ASSESSED VALUATION IN 1940~41 WAS $12,786,922; IN 1950-5. IT WAS $32,364,033; IN 1960-61 IT IS $63,063,078. I THE PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT IS TWO-FOLD .... TO MAKE A BRIEF REPORT OF EUGENE'S pROGRESS IN THE YEAR 1960 AND TO POINT UP THE CITY'S NEEDS FOR 1961. THERE WERE SEVERAL IMPORTANT ANNEXATIONS IN 1960, THE MOST IMPORTANT BEING THE WILLA- KENZIE AREA. ApPROXIMATELY 2.2 SQUARE MILES WERE ADDED TO THE CITY PROPERTY AND ABOUT 5,000 PEOPLE ADDED TO THE CITY!S POPULATION. MOST CITY SERVICES ARE NOW BEING FURNISHED IN SOME DEGREE IN THE AREA. THESE SERVICES INCLUDE FIRE PROTECTION, POLICE PROTECTION AND SOME STREET LIGHTING. SOME STREETS IN THE AREA HAVE BEEN PAVED. A DRAINAGE AND SEWER SURVEY IS UNDERWAY AT PRESENT, PREPARATORY TO THE INSTALLATION OF SANITARY AND STORM SEWERS IN THE AREA. THE YEAR 1960 WAS THE FIRST FULL YEAR OF COLLECTIONS UNDER A REVISED WATER USER CHARGE. WITH THESE ADDITIONAL MONIES A GOOD START HAS BEEN MADE ON REVAMPING THE WEST SIDE SEWER SYSTEM. DURING THE YEAR 7 MILES OF SANITARY SEWERS AND ALMOST 2 MILES OF STORM SEWERS HAVE BEEN CONSTRUCTED. THE CONTRACT HAS BEEN LET FOR COMPLETION OF THE SEWAGE DI~POSAL PLANT wrn~HAA COMPLETION DATE OF SEPTEMBER I, 196/. COMPL~TION OF THIS PHASE WILL GIVE US SECONDARY TREATMENT IN LINE WITH THE PROGRAM OF THE STATE SANITARY AUTHORITY. THIS WILL BE A BIG STEP IN CLEANING UP THE WILLAMETTE RIVER BELOW EUGENE. DURING THE YEAR THERE WAS CONSIDERABLE ACTIVITY IN STREET AND SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION WITH 10 MILES OF STREET AND 7.4 MILES OF SIDEWALKS COMPLETED. OF PARTICULAR NOTE' IS THE FACT THAT HILYARD STREET ~AS PARTIALLY COMPLETED ON A CONTRACT RUNNING FROM 24TH TO 40TH AVENUE. GARffEED STREET WAS COMPLETED BETWEEN 18TH AVENUE AND THE PACIFIC HIGHWAY AT 6TH AVENUE. ANOTHER IMPORTANT ARTERIAL COMPLETED WAS A LEG OF THE AMAZON ARTERIAL BETWEEN 19TH AND 24TH AVENUES. THIS LAST IMPORTANT ROADWAY WILL CONNECT DOWNTOWN EUGENE WITH THE 29TH AVENUE ANO BLOOMBERG CUTOFF TO THE PACIFIC FREEWAY SOUTH. THE LATTER IS NOW BEING CONSTRUCTED BY LANE COUNTY ANO IS SCHEDULED FOR COMPLETION IN THE FALL OF 1961. e ~