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MINUTES Eugene City Council Regular Session Council Chamber--City Hall June 13, 2005 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Andrea Ortiz, Gary Pap~, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor. Council President George Poling called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order and welcomed all those present. He explained that Mayor Kitty Piercy was attending the United States Conference of Mayors in Chicago, Illinois. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Councilor Poling reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. He observed that 12 people had signed up for the Public Forum. The councilors unanimously indicated their willingness to allow the Public Forum to run until all of those signed up had been given their three-minute opportunity to speak. Councilor Poling reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. Zachary Vishanoff, Patterson Street, alleged that there had been talk of a grant for Autzen Stadium at a meeting of the Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations. He averred the stadium was being granted $50,000 in Homeland Security money and that the money was to be spent on security cameras. He wondered if the natural area surrounding the stadium would be under surveillance and whether this was restricted information. He opposed having extra surveillance for the people who fish in the slough or utilize the BMX bicycle facility. He said this was also something to keep in mind for the new courthouse. He averred that when people know that the square near the courthouse had ~all these hidden technologies looking for anything and everything someone might do wrong or think wrong" it would not be a draw. Mr. Vishanofftook exception to ~Cannery Square," the proposed name for the area around the courthouse. He did not think there had been enough public input. He felt the public had mostly spoken about the natural areas in the vicinity and not the square itself. He said he had advocated for public tours of the cannery to look at adaptive reuse similar to that of the Fifth Street Market. He thought the cannery was a ~primary historic resource" that had been bulldozed without any public discussion. He called the name ~Cannery" a %lap in the face." Laurel Anderson, 953 West Broadway Street, thanked the Budget Committee for recommending funding for the police patrol in the Monroe Park neighborhood. She declared that it had made a difference already. She was very pleased to see the bicycle patrol officers. MINUTES--Eugene City Council June 13, 2005 Page 1 Regular Session