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'2 5'''' e 5/14/62 --'---'--'-~-'--"-- ,-'-----~-_._-~..------~._- --. - --- ~._- .-~~.. ---_..-.- --.-.-.-- I THE QUESTION WAS ASKED OF THE CITY MANAGER IF THIS REPORT FROM THE AIRPORT COMMISSION HAD TO HAVE FINAL ACTION TO GET ON THE BALLOT. THE ANSWER WAS NO, THAT THERE WAS STILL SOME TIME BEFORE THE LEGAL RE- QUIREMENT. SOME FURTHER DISCUSSION FOLLOWED SUGGESTING THAT PERHAPS LANE COUNTY MIGHT PARTICIPATE IN SOME PART OF THE PROGRAM RELATIVE TO THE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT. IT WAS MOVED BY MR. SWANSON SECONDED BY MR. CHRISTENSEN THAT ACTION BE POSTPONED FOR SIX WEEKS UNTIL THIS PROBLEM CAN BE IRONED OUT. MOTION CARRIED, MRS. LAURIS, MESSRS. MOYER AND WILSON VOTING NAY. 00 -' "'"' ~ ~ c::c 2. PURCHASE OF RIGHT-Of-WAY WIDENING PATTERSON fROM BROADWAY TO 11TH AVENUE - THE CITY MANAGER READ A REPORT FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE PURCHASING OF RIGHT-OF- WAY FOR WIDENING OF PATTERSON FROM BROADWAY TO 11TH AVENUE. CHRISTENSEN-CHATT MOTION TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE REPORT AND THAT MR.ALLEN WRITE A LETTER TO HUMBLE OIL COMPANY TENDERING THEM $2300 FOR THEIR PROPERTY CONCERNED. CARRIED. e IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. CHATT TO APPROVE THE ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE. MOTION CAR- RIED. 2 3. TRAFFIC FLOW, HILYARD AND PATTERSON FROM FRANKLIN TO 24TH- A PROPOSAL TO CHANGE THE TRAFFIC FLOW ON HILYARD AND PATTERSON STREETS FROM FRANKLIN TO 24TH WAS RECOMMENDED BY THE CITY MANAGER WHEN THE WIDENING PROJECT IS COMPLETED, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT 11TH AVENUE AND 13TH. COUNCILMAN MOLHOLM ASKED ABOUT A TRAFfiC LIGHT AT PATTERSON AND 24TH AND WAS ADVISED THIS WOULD BE IN NEXT YEAR'S PROPOS~D BUDGET. CHRISTENSEN-CHATT MOVED TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION. MOTION CARRIED." I IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. CHATT TO APPROVE THE ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE. MOTION CAR- RIED, MR. SWANSON VOTING NAY. COMMITTEE REPORT OF MAY 3, 1962 SUBMITTED AND READ: "PRESENT: COUNCILMEN LAURIS, MOLHOLM, CHATT, MOYER, WlLSON, SWANSON, CHRISTENSEN AND DEVERELL; CITY MANAGER; CITY RECORDER; CITY ATTORNEY; ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTSj THE PRESS AND OTHERS; DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. 3 I. AMENDMENT TO PLUMBING CODE - THE CITY MANAGER STATED THE CONCERN WITH THE CODE WAS THE SECTION 5, PARAGRAPH A., HAVING TO DO WITH THE TYPE OF PIPE ALLOWED FOR HOUSE CONNECTIONS. MR. OLSON, REPRESENTING FIBER PIPE PEOPLE AND MR. JAMES CHAMBERS, REGIONAL MANAGER FOR THE ORANGEBURG TILE COMPANY, GAVE STATISTICS ON THE USE OF FIBER PIPE IN PLACES WHERE IT HAD BEEN USED INCLUDING APPROXIMATE QUANTITIES AND LENGTH OF TIME IT HAD BEEN IN USE. REPRESENTING FIBER PIPR PEOPLE ALSO WERE TILLMAN & BOOTH, DISTRIBUTORS IN EUGENE, AND ALSO PRESENT WAS MR. MANLEY, A LOCAL PLUMBER. I MR. RALPH RODERICK OF CORNELL, HOWLAND, HAYES & MERRYFIELD EXPLAINED HIS FIRM'S POSITION AND THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH FIBER PIPE, STATING THEY HAD MADE AN EXTENSIVE S~RVEY ON THE USE AND EXPERIENCE IN RELATION TO BIT-UMINOUS FIBER PIPE AND THAT THEY WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ITS USE IN SANITARY SEWER CONNECTIONS OR A SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT SYSTEM. THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS INDICATED THE CITY OF EUGENE HAD NOT HAD GOOD EXPERIENCE IN THE USE OF FIBER PIPE AND WOULD NOT RECOMMEND ITS USE IN THE SEWER SYSTEM IN THE CITY. HE REFERRED SPECIFICALLY TO THE USE OF FIBER PIPE IN THE NEW SEWER SYSTEM IN THE WILLAKE~ IE AREA. HE ALSO STATED THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT HAD BEEN KEEPING VERY CLOSE RECORDS SINCE 1954 ON THE USE OF FIBER PIPE AND THE EXPERIENCE WAS NOT GOOD. e MR. SWANSON MOVED TO ADOPT THE AMENDMENT TO THE CODE AS OUTLINED WHICH MOTION WAS NOT SECONDED. MR. WILSON MOVED, SECONDED BY MR. CHATT, TO ADOPT THE AMENDMENT TO THE PLUMBING CODE EXCEPT SECTIONS 3 AND 5 WHICH HAVE REFERENCE TO THE TYPE OF PIPE USED FOR CONNECTIONS. SOME fURTHER DISCUSSION RESULTED IN A SWANSON-CHRISTENSEN MOTION TO TABLE THE MATTER UNTIL THE COUNCIL MEETING OF MAY 14, 1962. MOTION CARRIED. IT WAS MOVED BY MRS. LAURIS SECONDED BY MR. SWANSON TO;.ADOPT THE AMENDMENT TO THE PLUMBING CODE AS SUGGESTED. I MR. JAMES CHAMBERS OF THE ORANGEBURG MANUfACTURING COMPANY WAS PRESENT AND AGAIN SPOKE IN REBUTTAL, INDICATING THAT MOST Of THE PLUMBERS IN THE AREA DID NOT KNOW THE CHANGES IN THIS CODE_ AS SUGGESTED, ALSO INDICATING THAT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF ADVERTISERS IN THE YELLOW PAGES Of THE PHONE BOOK AND THAT THEY WOULD APPRECIATE MORE TIME TO GATHER INFORMATION TO OffSET SOME Of THE ARGUMENTS OF THE ENGINEERS. FOR THIS REASON HE ASKED THE COUNCIL TO EXTEND THE STAY fOR 60 DAYS PERIOD TO ALLOW THEM TO GATHER THEIR INFORMATION. PRESENT ALSO ON BEHALF OF THE ORANGE BURG PIPE COMPANY WAS DR. ADELBERT DIEfENDORf OF COLLEGE Of THE PACifiC, STOCKTON, CALIfORNIA, WHO APPARENTLY IS IN A CONSULTING CAPACITY FOR THE ORANGEBURG PIPE COMPANY, WHO SUGGESTED THAT POSSIBLY THE PRODUCT THAT PEOPLE HAD BEEN HAVING TROUBLE WI TH WAS A PIPE MANUFACTURED BY A FIRM IN CORVALL I S WHO WERE NO LONGER I N BUS I NESS, AND WHO HAD BEEN ~1:\'~ l;ol.: MAKING AN INfERIOR PRODUCT. e MAYOR CONE THEN MADE HIS STATEMENT QUOTING A MR. CLUBB, FORMER DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE CITY OF EUGENE, REPORTED AS NOT BEING IN fAVOR OF THE BITUMINOUS fiBER PIPE AS USED IN THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM. THE CITY MANAGER THEN READ LETTERS fROM ENGINEERING FIRMS SUCH AS CORNELL,HoWLAND, HAYES & MERRYFIELD; ,~