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e heritage of this community and of our civilization. He also said he believed it was the responsibility of the leadership of the council to bring that to pass in a way that was in pious service to the community, which he trusted would occur. Mayor Obie closed the public hearing. Mayor Obie asked about the consideration given to use of existing parking garages, such as those at the Hult Center or the Parcade. Ms. Decker said the committee had considered the amount of parking currently used in the two surface parking lots at the recommended site, and it had assumed that spaces currently leased could be moved to other parking garages. The committee had not assumed that the day-to-day parking currently using those two surface parking lots would move to the Hult Center or the Parcade. Mr. Miller requested information for the work session about using surface level parking as a means of facilitating the library and whether that would preclude other types of parking structures if needed in the future, and the relative costs of having interim parking on the surface level. Ms. Schue posed a question for the public. She said the report assumed funding through the property tax, which was a standard and understandable approach, but other communities used other sources of funding. She asked about other forms of taxation that might be used and suggested a restaurant tax of about 4 percent. She said the community needed to get e creative and not talk just about property taxes. Ms. Ehrman requested information for the work session. She said she had recently talked with a librarian in Portland who had mentioned the strong fine system used in Beaverton, Oregon. Ms. Ehrman said she did not mean to suggest that library fines would fund the library expansion, but she did favor looking at all possible revenue issues. Mr. Holmer said that when the council had reached consensus about the nature and size of the library, he would be interested in staff advice about the practicality and feasibility of a competitive design process. The council recessed for five minutes at 8:35 p.m. II. PUBLIC HEARING: ORDINANCE AMENDMENT CONCERNING PROJECTING SIGNS, MARQUEE SIGNS, AND UNDER-MARQUEE SIGNS e City Manager Mike Gleason introduced the item. Jan Bohman of the Development Department presented the staff report. She said the proposed amendment had been initiated by the department at the request of downtown businesses whose owners had expressed interest in installing awnings through the department's awning program. Ms. Bohman said the amendment would allow signs to project a maximum of seven feet from the wall of buildings when in conjunction with awnings or marquees that provided pedestrian cover. She said the State Building Code currently allowed MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 25, 1988 Page 10