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particular things now going on in the community. He suggested taking the best of what had been proposed by the committee and make it go forward in a good way. Mr. Matthews urged the council not to rush to implementation and to allow for more community input. Jay Breslow, 2250 Patterson Street, spoke as the president of the student body of the University of Oregon. He said he had committed himself to working hard to improve the relationship between students and Eugene Police Officers and representing officials. He said that student were begging for help in not passing the proposed special response fee ordinance but acknowledged that the ordinance would probably pass anyway. Mr. Breslow urged that the passage of the proposed ordinance be done in the spirit of helping the community and that input from students and residents of the area be taken into account. He said that the student body had taken the first step toward that cooperation by submitting its own form of the ordinance. He said that Christa Shively and her response team had put their hearts and souls into drafting the alternate ordinance as their commitment to making the University area a better place to live. He said that he expected the same from the council and especially the councilors whose wards were heavily populated with students. Mr. Breslow urged the council to match the steps taken by the student body and work toward a compromise. He stressed that their effort merited that step from the council. Ray E. Hilts, 3012 Southwest Takena Road, spoke in favor of the proposed tobacco ordinance. He refuted previous testimony stating that a rise in drunk driving arrests in Corvallis after a similar ordinance had been passed could not be verified. Barney McKay, 800 Greg Way, commented the people who worked in bars, taverns, and bingo parlors were entitled to smoke-free air. He added that more people would frequent those types of businesses if the air was smoke-free. Eli Mayes, 1675 East 24th Avenue, spoke in favor of the proposed smoking ordinance. He noted that there were over 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke and that over 50 of them were carcinogenic. He stressed that there was an alternative to breathing secondhand smoke and coming out of bars smelling of smoke. Molly Stafford, 437 East 11th Avenue, thanked the council for working towards getting a new public library built. She said that the Bethel branch library was wonderful and noted that the Sheldon branch would open soon. She urged the council to approve proposed financing plan for the new library. Trish Binder commented that the Eugene City Council, by considering the proposed special response fee ordinance, was continuing a trend of targeting the young and the poor. She expressed a desire to see all of the ordinances passed by the council over the years that targeted the young and the poor and compare them to the number of ordinances passed that did not. Ms. Binder believed that the special response fee was bad public policy. She added that the students being targeted could get together as a voting power and bring the council to the bargaining table and get some of the ordinances removed. Bob Cassidy, 1401 East 27th Avenue, related that he had banned smoking in his establishment over a extended period of time. He commented that it would be wise to give bars and bingo MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 13, 2000 Page 4 Regular Meeting