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MINUTES Eugene City Council Regular Meeting Council Chamber--Eugene City Hall November 26, 2001 8p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Betty Taylor, David Kelly, Nancy Nathanson, Scott Meisner, Pat Farr, Gary Rayor, Gary PapS, Bonny Bettman. CITY COUNCIL MEETING Mayor James D. Torrey called the regular meeting of the City Council to order. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Torrey reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. John Brown, 1260 Charnelton Street, noted his work to get a bus shelter installed to serve a low- income housing project, and asked that in the future the City consider requiring such shelters in low-income projects to serve the children living in them. Mr. Brown also noted his work to improve water quality in the Willamette River and said he would continue to work on the issue. He urged the council to take the lead in ensuring that communities upstream did not allow degradation of the river water before it reached Eugene. Misha Seymour, 1313 Lincoln Street, suggested that preference voting would have produced a different result in the last mayoral election. He criticized those in support of citywide elections. He called on citizens to "take back our rights over here." Mr. Seymour called for retention of the current ward system so the council had diversity. He called for laws to limit campaign contributions. He said the Gang of 9 was "just a gang." Mr. Seymour said that Eugene was "our city, for us, not for them." Joy Zhao, 163 Southwest Clay Street, Portland, a student at the Portland State University, described the benefits of the Falon Gong exercises she performed as part of her embrace of Falandafa and said they could be done anywhere, anytime, making it convenient for the modern lifestyle. She said the Chinese government was persecuting adherents of Falandafa practice both inside China and overseas, and she was present to clarify the truth about Falandafa. She noted that her relatives and mother had practiced the Falon Gong exercises and benefitted from them, but due to government persecution, her mother gave up the practice and lost the benefits. MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 26, 2001 Page 1 Regular Meeting