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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room--Eugene City Hall <br /> <br /> April 8, 2002 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: David Kelly, Gary Pap~, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, Pat Fart, <br /> Betty Taylor, Gary Rayor, Bonny Bettman. <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />A. Items from Mayor, Council, and City Manager <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly asked City Manager pro tem Jim Carlson to look into the potential of using a City-owned <br />site at the east edge of the property the City acquired in the Danebo property settlement as a <br />possible Iow-income housing land bank site. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor asked if the City could do anything about what she termed the rapacious practices of <br />towing companies who tow automobiles of visitors who unknowingly park in private lots. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor read an excerpt from a recent New Yorker article on the adoption of instant runoff <br />voting by San Francisco, California, and the State of Vermont. She said that instant runoff voting <br />was taking hold all over, and she hoped the council would consider including it as part of the <br />charter amendments referred to the voters. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman requested information on the next steps in the south Willamette Street traffic study. <br />She said that a meeting had been held on the topic that she would have liked to have attended <br />with more notice. She requested more detailed information than was previously provided to the <br />council and a report on what occurred at the meeting. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman raised the potential of eliminating downtown parking charges on Saturday. She <br />thought it would be a boon to the businesses at the Saturday Market, resulting in a positive <br />overflow for downtown businesses. She suggested that, given the parking structures were <br />already free to use on Saturday, the revenue involved was likely minimal. Ms. Bettman asked to <br />see revenue figures. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman determined from Mr. Carlson that no project-level surveys of the road alignment <br />associated with the federal courthouse were occurring; Mr. Carlson said that the consultants may <br />be out in the field examining possible alignments. Ms. Bettman asked that Mr. Carlson get back to <br />her with what had been done. <br />Mr. Meisner had no items. <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 8, 2002 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />