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<br />Ms. Solomon noted the recent Housing Policy Board meeting, at which bills related to manufactured housing <br />were discussed. <br /> <br />Ms. Solomon noted her meeting with representatives of the Ash Institute of Kennedy School of Government <br />of Harvard University. Eugene was one of fifty finalists and one of the three finalists in the affordable <br />housing category for which it had applied, for its landbanking program. She looked forward to hearing the <br />results of the application. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark agreed with the remarks of Ms. Bettman and Mr. Poling with regard to Commissioner Green and <br />the other commissioners, saying it was the wrong tool to express the sentiments that voters felt. He thought <br />a recall a bad idea and suggested that people use elections to express their sentiments instead. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark said he attended a board meeting of the Convention and Visitors Association of Lane County at <br />which the mayor spoke on sustainability. He also attended his first Human Rights Commission meeting and <br />asked the council on the commission’s behalf to keep the date of November 9 free for a human rights <br />conference scheduled to occur in Eugene. He noted absences on the commission’s Education and Outreach <br />Committee and encouraged people to contact him for information about serving on that or other commission <br />committees. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark said he met with Dave Briggs, the executive director of the YMCA, and discussed the Santa <br />Clara area’s long-expressed interest in a community center in that area. He suggested the idea of partnering <br />with the YMCA to provide such a center in the area at a time when the City might not be able to do so, and <br />discussions were underway. He would update the council as those discussions progressed. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka agreed with the remarks of other councilors regarding the commissioners who voted for the <br />public safety income tax, saying they had shown leadership and the recall was not the tool to be used in the <br />case of political disagreement. He concurred with Mr. Clark that the correct approach was the ballot box. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka also commended the work of Ms. Mortenson and expressed his regret about Ms. Rose’s <br />departure. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka was disappointed in the Civic Stadium court decision that awarded the future of Civic Stadium <br />to Eugene School District 4J rather than to the City of Eugene and suggested that there were other venues <br />through which the stadium could be maintained in that status. <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka said that the Council Committee on Transportation was making progress toward a recommen- <br />dation to the council and would soon put together a package of solutions and report on its progress to the <br />council. He thought if the committee could come together to support such a package, so could all of <br />Eugene. He assured the public that the council was putting hundreds of hours into the subject of transporta- <br />tion, as opposed to the single hour the council spent discussing the resolution regarding the Iraq war. <br /> <br />th <br />Mr. Zelenka noted his receipt on behalf of the Mayor of the City’s 28 Tree City Foundation award and <br />th <br />reported on the tree planting that took place near Willamette Street and 16 Avenue. He hoped the flag the <br />City received from the foundation could be displayed, adding he would like to see all 28 displayed. <br /> <br />Ms. Ortiz said she met with some neighbors of Jacobs Landing interested in seeing a crosswalk near that <br />development. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council April 9, 2007 Page 3 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />