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M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Regular Meeting Council Chamber—Eugene City Hall April 9, 2007 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Jennifer Solomon, Andrea Ortiz, Mike Clark, Alan Zelenka, Chris Pryor, George Poling, Bonny Bettman, and Betty Taylor. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the regular meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. 1. CEREMONIAL MATTERS Kudos to Lynda Rose - Mayor Piercy announced that Council Coordinator Lynda Rose was stepping down. She commended Ms. Rose for her work and expressed sadness to see her go. Councilor Clark congratulated Ms. Rose on entering the next phase of her life and thanked her for her service to the City. Councilor Ortiz echoed the glowing comments about Ms. Rose. Recognition of Project HomelessConnect - Mayor Piercy thanked everyone who had worked to make the Project HomelessConnect a success. She acknowledged the hard work that brought the event to fruition. She specifically thanked Councilor Ortiz for making homelessness a council priority. She quoted from a report Councilor Ortiz made regarding the event. She thanked the City’s partners, Lane County, City of Springfield, and United Way of Lane County for making the idea a reality. She said as a follow-up to the event and at the behest of the councilors, she had created a Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Homelessness. 2. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules of the public forum. th Drix , 307½ East 14 Avenue, related that a couple of councilors helped to plant trees in his neighborhood and he appreciated it. He felt Eugene was a great town. He thought the citizens of Eugene were a great resource and, by working together, could come up with solutions for the problems Eugene sometimes faced, such as the two holes in downtown Eugene. MINUTES—Eugene City Council April 9, 2007 Page 1 Regular Meeting