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EE. Appointment, City Manager - MayoiAnderson reported a call from the con- sulting firm, Callaghan & Co. of Chicago, and informed the Council that a number of, applications were beginning to come in for the city manager posi- tion. Also, that Council members soon would be receiving copies of criteria for the position prepared by the consulting firm. FF. Transitional Living Center open house was announced - this afternoon (Apri1~ from 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. - with special invitation to Council members to attend. GG., Lane Area Economic Development Association - Invitation was received from Lime County Commissioners to an economic development workshop scheduled for April 10, 1975 - 7:30 p.m. - in the basement of Harris Hall. The work- shop is designed to bdng together representatives from communi t,ies in the county, chambers of commerce, citizen _ groups, and ot-llCr interested, organi tations to 'discilss the severEd issues and concepts of, the proposed . Lane Area Economic Development Associa tion . HH. Smoking Ban in public Meetings - Association for Nonsmokers Rights asked that the Council extend its arguments against field burning by banning smoking in any public meeting held by the city and in any public .meeting held in a city-owned facility. Trish Weisman, speaking for the Associa- tion, asked de1et,ion of the city's recreational facilities from the request. She said that like all other individual liberties the right to smoke could be exercised until it infringed upon the 'rights of others. Smoking was detrimental to the nonsmoker's health as well as to the smoker, she said, when one was forced to breathe the air in closed un- ventilated rooms at meetings where public participation was invited. She couldn't see how the Council could take the stand it had on the health hazard resulting from field burning without carrying it further. In response to questions from the ,Council with regard to the type of meetings the request covered, wording was clarified to mean the smoking ban if adopted would apply to any public meeting held by the city (re- gardless of location) or any public meeting held in any city-owned facility (except recreational facilities). Councilman Haws was in favor of the request and asked adoption. Mayor Anderson was sympathetic to the proposal, but he felt the city's boards and commission should be allowed to set the rules of ~onduct of their own meetings. He thought mandating such a ban would be difficult to enforce and suggested further cl~ification before any action .was taken. Councilman Wi11iam.c; thought the issue went beyond the question of smoking in city-owned buildings. He didn't see how the city cou1(i restrict be- havior in restaurant facilities where committee meetings were held. Councilman Hamel was against the proposal, saying he would resent spend- ing time in city meetings away from city hall and being told he couldn't smoke if he wanted to. Councilwoman Shirey acknowledge the problem created by smoking in public meetin.gs but had reservations about "too many,regu1ations for everyone to live by." Councilman Haws suggested the request be sent to staff with the request to prepare some workable solutions or alternatives. Mayor Anderson thought perhaps the Nonsmokers Association could work with staff to work out an alternate proposal for Council consideration. Ms. Weisman said that legally the Council had every right to regulate' behavior of its meetings even in a privately-owned facility. With regard to enforcement, she said that basically, voluntary comp1ia!lce worked. She felt elected officials I~+ , Comm 4/2-/75 File tit Comm 4/2/75 File Comm 4/2/75 File e .