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15~ e 10/12/64 I Wild ish Construction Company (Contd) 1st - Paving 15th from Tyler to FairgrOunds , $ 666.00 1st - Paving and sanitary sewer in Southwood Addn 3.762.00 $ 100,451. 26 AND INCLUDING Atlas Hotel Supply Company 2nd - Airport Restaurant and Lounge 16,156.40 W. E. Youel Construction Company 3rd - Completion of Airport Restaurant 1,738.34 e Mrs. Lauris moved seconded by Mr. Chatt that the payments'be allowed and proper City officials authorized to draw the necessary warrants. Rollcall vote. All councilmen present voting aye, motion carried. COMMITTEE REPORTS Committee meeting held October 8, 1964: I "Present: Mayor Cone; Councilmen Lauris, Chatt, Swanson, Christensen, Deverell, Crakes, Hawk, and Purdy; City Manager; Assistant City Manager; Administrative Assistant; City Attorney; Assi~tant City Attorney; City Engineer; City Recorder; and others. 1 1. Parking Committee Report - Councilman Ray Hawk advised the City Council that the Parking Study Committee had taken in~o consideration the various_objections voiced at.the hearing on the parking program and had now evolved a formula for the method of assessment. Mr. Hawk then sug- gested that Mr. Howard Buford (Planning Director) explain the formula for the assessment to the members of the Council and those members of . the committee in attendance at the meeting. This formula would allow credit to property owners who have provided off-street parking on those properties now within the proposed boundaries of the parking district. The formula also asks the City of Eugene to pay for the costs of opera- tion, maintenance, and policing of the off-str~et parking lots. At the close of this explanation, it was also pointed out that Bancroft bonds would be sold for much less than the 6% interest rate charged against property assessments in the proposed district, a~d that some considera- tion perhaps should b~ given to the proRerty's being assessed in this regard. After further discussion by the Council, Mrs. Lauris moved seconded by Mr. Chatt to give tentative apprqval to the formula for assessing the cost of the parking project. Motion carried, Mr. Christen- I sen voting no. Mrs. Lauris moved seconded by Mr. Chatt to approve adoption of the parking committee report. On call for discussion by the Mayor, several memb~rs of the audience ~poke objecting to the proposed parking district method of assessment, among them Messrs. Archie Weinstein, Herb Robbins, Brian Bronson, Fred Yahn, Robert Suess, and Otto Vonderheit. e Mr. Weinstein again; stated that he felt the committee had spent many long hours need- lessly in trying to include businesses and properties in the Qff-stree~ parking assess- ment district which had no responsibility for assu~ing an obligatioQ for parking in the downtown core area, and that several small assessment districrnshould have been arranged for instead of one large assessment district for the entire downtown core area. Mr. Herb Robbins spoke at great length concerning his interpretation of the proposed formula for assessing properties within the district, and summed up by saying that it would be his position that the businesses in the downtown core area should pro- vide their own off-street parking and pay for it just as the businesses in the fringe area of the proposed district had provided parking under the C-3P zone requirements. Mr. Brian Bronson said that he also felt the City would be in competition with private parking lots now operated in the downtown area, that the City should not enter into this type of competition, and that municipally-operated vs. private parking lots would I be to the detriment of the private lots. The Planning Director was asked to explain the revised formula with regard to reduction of assessment for th~se properties providing short- and long-term parking within the district. 10/12/64 - 7 e II Il~