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MINUTES Eugene City Council Regular Session Council Chamber--City Hall April 25, 2005 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Jennifer Solomon, Chris Pryor, Andrea Ortiz, Bonny Bettman, Gary Papd. Mayor Kitty Piercy convened the meeting of the Eugene City Council and welcomed all those present. 1. PUBLIC HEARING Police Executive Research Forum and International City Management Association Report on Selected Police Operations City Manager Taylor recounted that the City had jointly commissioned an outside audit of the Eugene Police Department (EPD) in October 2004, which had culminated in the report submitted to the City Council during the previous month. He stated that the report contained 57 recommendations for improving the EPD and the present public hearing sought to provide the community with an opportunity to weigh in on them. EPD Chief Bob Lehner and Executive Director of the Human Risk and Resource Services (HRRS) Lauren Chouinard would subsequently provide their responses to the recommendations. He noted that the City was about to receive its annual internal affairs audit report from its contracted auditor, Howell Lankford, to be presented to a joint meeting of the Police Commission and the Human Rights Commission. Because of the three events coming together, he indicated he had extended to May 9 the time frame for Chief Lehner and Mr. Chouinard to respond to the report and the public hearing. Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing and reviewed the rules that governed the proceeding. Nadia Sindi, 3950 Goodpasture Island Loop, #J-111, submitted her testimony in writing. She alleged that she had been harassed, intimidated, and followed by officers of the EPD since 1983. She felt this harassment had increased after she had filed a complaint in 1997 regarding an incident in which she was allegedly assaulted by a police officer. She suggested vandalism to her vehicle was connected to her allegations regarding the Police Department. She said she filed numerous complaints and testified before the council and police commission. She thought the more she complained, the more she had been retaliated against. She asserted that she had been ticketed more than other members of the City's populace. She felt she had been %oycotted" from serving on any City committee or commission. Zachary Vishanoff, Patterson Street, thought the Planning and Development Department (PDD) was integrally tied to the EPD because the situations that "got the police in a bad way" were related to PDD. He cited the "smart growth" Broadway Apartments, which had won a Governor's Livability Award since its construction. MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 25, 2005 Page 1 Regular Session