Item A: City Council Goal - City Hall Complex

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Group, the Eugene Planning Commission, Centro Latino Americano Parent’s Group, Neighborhood Association Leaders, Community Forum participants, and a host of interested organizational newsletters. We continue to maintain a website, www.eugenecityhall.com, where all background materials are posted, and comment lines. We do receive some comments through the website but are redesigning it to be more interactive and useful to new discussion entrants. Community Member Comments Our work this spring was primarily outreach and generated many conversations updating or introducing Eugenians to the project. When we encountered community members with strong feelings about a particular issue we offered to convey their unedited messages to council. The following comments are not representative of all conversations, but are the verbatim responses of those who wished to share their thoughts with the council: Asian Celebration: -I like the new site because it’s right downtown! -Use the existing site!! Use the old GSA while you build the new on existing site. -Use the fairgrounds for City Hall complex (and hospital too). -I worked in courts – we need police near us to be safe. It’s scary! -Where will courthouse parking be? There is no accessible courthouse parking. This really concerns me. -Where will the parking be if you build at the butterfly lot site? -Make sure municipal court is easy to get to – parking, etc. Now it’s sooo confusing. -I don’t want to go downtown unless you get free parking like Salem. -Leave it. Don’t spend the $. -Make it have community spirit. Classroom space. Meeting rooms. Accessibility, openness. Not elite. -I’m mad that the library was built even though we voted against it. It’s beautiful and I use it. But it makes me mad. -A 25 year planning horizon is too short for a building. At least plan how you could expand in the future. -I want Communities of Color Task Forces located in City Hall: African American, Latino, Asian, Native American. Separate task forces, but all in same building. Think Seattle. -Get to schematic design so we can have more realistic cost estimates. Earth Day -Don’t spend money buying land if we have some we can use. -Sustainability is a long term solution. We also need strong regulation now. -I do not want you to buy land, but use existing site. Other -How can you keep working on our City Hall without knowing WHERE it will be???? Eugene needs a Master plan for Down Town. -Socialism has completely amassed the control of the freedom of the local tax payers. All is spent no matter how the vote nor the will.