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MINUTES <br /> <br /> Eugene City Council <br /> Work Session <br /> McNutt Room--Eugene City Hall <br /> <br /> August 12, 2002 <br /> 5:30 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Taylor, David Kelly, Nancy Nathanson, Pat Fart, Scott <br /> Meisner, Gary Rayor, Gary Pap~, Bonny Bettman. <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING <br /> <br />Mayor James D. Torrey called the meeting to order. <br /> <br />A.WORK SESSION: Items from Mayor, Council and City Manager <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly said he had been involved in a committee to try to figure out ways to establish small <br />business incubators. He said the committee had submitted a proposal, as part of the Lane <br />County Use of Economic Development Dollars from the Lottery, and received a grant to do a <br />business plan and feasibility study on small business incubators. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor said she appreciated the memorandum distributed to the council regarding the Housing <br />Code. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor raised concern that the City employee who had made a complaint about management <br />in the Library, Recreation, and Cultural Services Department was reputedly no longer working for <br />the City. She suggested that the situation argued for the adoption of whistle blower protections <br />and a performance auditor. She said she was disappointed to hear that the person being <br />complained about was not the person investigated but the person who had made the complaint <br />was being investigated. She stressed the importance of employees being listened to. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman said she had heard that the fire station on West 32nd Avenue was closed down for <br />remodeling. She questioned why a four-year-old station needed remodeling and called for a <br />report on the work done and its costs. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman thanked staff for its update on Corvallis Housing Code and the history that it defined. <br />She said she had requested a housing code item be placed on a future work session list and <br />called for a status report on when that would take place. <br /> <br />Ms. Nathanson thanked the Neighborhood Services staff regarding City support for the Churchill <br />Area Neighbors. She said she had recently attended a federal communications commission <br />Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Local and State Government Advisory Committee <br />meeting where the FCC discussed rate policy and stated that it could only talk about rates and not <br />programming. She maintained that rates and programming were related, as channels were <br />moved into more expensive or premium tiers and the value of the basic service declined while the <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council August 12, 2002 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />