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e I 00 -- ~ ~... :0 c:rJ e I I e I e 21'" 5/14/62 _._--------~---_.._- ---------------- _.~ ._-----~._._._------ ----_._-~-~._- COUNCIL CHAMBER EUGENE, OREGON MA Y 14, 1962 THE REGULAR MEETING Of THE COMMON COUNCIL Of THE CITY Of EUGENE WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY HIS HONOR MAYOR EDWIN E. CONE AT 6:30 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER ON MAY 14, 1962 WITH THE fOLLOWING COUNCILMEN PRESENT: MRS. LAURIS, MESSRS. CHATT, MOYER, WILSON, SWANSON, CHRISTENSEN AND DEVERELL. MR. MOLHOLM WAS ABSENT. THE INVOCATION WAS GIVEN BY REV. BRIAN WILHITE, ASSOCIATE MINISTER Of FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH. THE MINUTES Of THE ADJOURNED MEETING Of APRIL 23, 1962, AS MAILED TO MEMBERS Of ,THE COUNCIL, WERE APPROVED. NEW BUSINESS MAYOR CONE ACKNOWLEDGED THE ATTENDANCE Of SEVERAL 6TH GRADE STUDENTS fROM HARRIS SCHOOL WHO WERE PRESENT fOR THE PURPOSE Of VIEWING THE PROCEEDINGS Of THE MEETING. 2 THE CITY MANAGER READ A COMMUNICATION fROM THE STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT RELATIVE TO THE INSTALLA- TION Of A TRAffiC SIGNAL AT THE INTERSECTION Of RAILROAD BOULEVARD AND VANBuREN STREET. AMONG OTHER ITEMS IN THE AGREEMENT, THE PROPOSAL IS fOR THE CITY TO PAY fOR 50% Of THE INSTALLATION CHARGE, WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY $5600, $100 Of WHICH IS EXTRA fOR THE INSTALLATION Of A 7-fOOT EXTENSION ARM. THE STATE AGREES TO DO ALL THE WORK Of THE INSTALLATION Of THE SIGNS AND SIGNAL AND TO REMIT TO THE CITY ANY MONIES NOT USED UP TO $5500, ESTIMATED 50% SHARE Of THE ACTUAL INSTALLATION. IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE COUNCIL AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND RECORDER TO SIGN THE AGREEMENT WITH THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. ROLLCALL VOTE. MOTION CARRIED, ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE. 3 THE CITY MANAGER READ A PROPOSED AGREEMENT BETWEEN LANE COUNTY AND THE CITY Of EUGENE WHEREBY THE CONSERVATION Of VALUABLE OPEN SPACE LAND IN THE AREA AROUND THE CITY AND IN THE CITY MIGHT BE JOINTLY PURCHASED fOR RECREATIONAL AND SCENIC AREAS. THIS AGREEMENT WOULD PROVIDE fOR JOINT DISCUSSION Of THE PROBLEMS Of THE TWO JURISDICTIONS AND IMPLEMENT THE ACQUISITION Of SUCH OPEN SPACE LAND. IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. CHATT TO APPROVE THE AGREEMENT. ROLLCALL VOTE. MOTION CAR- RIED, ALL COUNCILMEN PRESENT VOTING AYE. 4 A LETTER WAS READ fROM THE COMMITTEE Of NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY AffAIRS, MR. MILES KONTICH, CHAIRMAN, REfERRING TO THE REPORT Of MR. DICK SODERBERG, ,URBAN RENEWAL DIRECTOR, ON THE EAST CAMPUS URBAN RENEWAL PROJECT. IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. CHAT T TO RECEIVE AND PLACE ON fiLE. MOTION CARRIED. 5 A COMMUNICATION WAS ALSO READ DATED MAY 9, 1962 fROM THE COMMITTEE Of NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY AFfAIRS REfERRING TO AN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT CONCERNING THE MASONIC CEMETERY AT 25TH AND UNIVERSITY. THE NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS HAVE BANDED TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE LOOKS OF THE CEMETERY BY CLEANING UP AND PAINTING UP AS PART OF PROJECT 'OPERATION SHOWOFf'. IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. CHATT THAT THE CITY MANAGER BE INSTRUCTED TO WRITE A LETTER Of COMMENDATION TO THE GROUP, GIVING THEIR WHOLE HEARTED APPROVAL TO THE PROJECT. MOTION CARRIED. 6 THE CITY MANAGER THEN READ A LETTER FROM MRS. ROBERT LEEPER WITH REGARD TO THE TREE PROBLEM AND TRAfFIC AND PARKING AREAS. SHE SUBMITTED A PROPOSAL IN HER LETTER INDICATING A PLAN TO CREATE DIAGONAL PARKING ISLANDS BETWEEN TREES, AND ALSO PROVIDED A MINIATURE LAYOUT FOR DISCUSSION OF THE COUNCIL. SHE SUGGESTED HER PROPOSAL WOULD BE FAVORABLE PARTICULARLY BETWEEN 13TH AND 24TH ON ALDER STREET. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. MOYER SECONDED BY MR. tHATT THAT THE MATTER BE REfERRED TO THE TRAFfiC ENGINEER fOR STUDY AND A RECOMMENDATION AT A LATER TIME. MOTION CARRIED. 7 THE CITY MANAGER PRESENTED A SKETCH OF THE INTERSECTION OF 11TH AVENUE AND PATTERSON STREET SHOWING PROPOSED CHANGES IN CURB RADI I WHICH SHOULD BE MADE AS A PART Of THE JOB ON THE STREET WIDENING PROJECT. HOWEVER, IN THE PROPOSED SKETCH THERE WERE TWO TREES TO BE CONSIDERED, ONE ON EACH SIDE OF 11TH AVENUE, WHICH WOULD COME OUT IN ONE PROPOSAL Of THE PLAN, OR AS AN ALTERNATIVE COULD BE LEfT IN TO POSSIBLY BE CHANGED SOME YEARS HENCE. DR. FEENEY WAS PRESENT IN THE AUDIENCE AND GIVEN THE FLOOR TO SPEAK ON THE SUBJECT AND SUGGESTED THAT MORE PEOPLE SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES SO THAT THE PROBLEM WAS UNDERSTOOD BY EVERYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND ASKING THAT THE COUNCIL RECONSIDER THIS TO GIVE THE GENERAL PUBLIC TIME TO BE HEARD. PREVIOUS TO DR. FEENEY!S SPEAKING, COUNCILMAN WILSON MOVED SECONDED BY MR. SWANSON TO GO AHEAD AND PROCEED AS PLANNED WITH THE CURB CUTS, THEN DISCUSSION fOLLOWED AND THE OBJECTION BY DR. FEENEY. AFTER SOME fURTHER DISCUSSION, MR. MOYER MOVED SECONDED BY MR. CHRISTENSEN THAT THE MATTER BE TABLED. MOTION CARRIED, MRS. LAURIS AND MR. WILSON VOTING NAY. 8 BILLS AGAINST VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS Of THE CITY fOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 1962 WERE SUBMITTED AND READ AS FOLLOWS: ,,~