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believed that the fee proposal was the best the City could do in the absence of an effective statewide program. <br /> <br />Councilor Rayor asked legal counsel if there were administrative rules that could ease the fee for companies <br />with large numbers of employees who use few chemicals. City Attorney Glenn Klein said any administrative <br />rule must be consistent with the ordinance that was being passed. He suggested that the ordinance would <br />need to be revised if the council wished to take the approach suggested by Councilor Rayor. Mr. Klein noted <br />further that the ordinance governed the current billing year. Councilor Rayor said that he would like to look <br />at options to address such situations after the billing cycle. <br /> <br />Mayor Torrey said the City should not be putting measures of this type in the charter. He said that Mr. <br />Rayor's concerns could have easily been addressed if the law was not in the charter. Mayor Torrey believed <br />that when they passed the charter amendment, voters wanted to know where the toxins were, and if they had <br />their say would want to charge those who created the problem. Mayor Torrey said he had hoped that the two <br />opposing sides could get together on a solution, but acknowledged that was not likely to happen. <br /> <br />Mr. Klein indicated that even if the ordinance was passed unanimously, it would not be accompanied by an <br />emergency clause because there were only five councilors present. <br /> <br /> Roll call vote; the motion passed unanimously, 5:0, and the bill became Ordinance No. <br /> 20189. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council February 28, 2000 Page 10 <br /> Regular Meeting <br /> <br /> <br />