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<br />Mr. Poiing thm1ked PublicWork.s Depanrncnt st(lfffor the street impr~)\'enwnts adjacent to Bertha HoH <br />Eki:oentary School and thank.ed Schonl District 4.1 for improving the school parking lot. He noted that the <br />construction of ('al Young Middle School was progressing \vclL <br /> <br />Mr, Po1ing noted a house fire that occurred on Chateau Meadows Drive on August 16 and said he had <br />heard from seveml constituents about the event He stated for the record that the issue '.vas not rebted to <br />hard boundaries and the response \vas not politically motivated. A mistake had been made and <1 <br />dispatcher failed to ti)Ho'vv dispatch protocol, delaying the fire truck's arriv(ll on the scene. \fr. Poling <br />said residents \'l,mtcd to ensure that the error did not oc\~ur again, and wanted to know what supervision <br />\-vas in place when the event occurred. tIe requested a response from the Cit.y Manager. City Manager <br />Taylor indicated he \vas looking into the incident and would f()llow up on Mr. Poiing' s questIons. <br /> <br />Mr. Poling said he phoned in a report on graffiti recently and later learned that the location that had been <br />recorded f...if the incident by the police was in Springfield n:lther than in Eugene, Ilv'here the actua.l incident <br />\-vas located, He questioned hO\.v the error occurred and requested that the manager f~Jllow up. <br /> <br />j\;lr. Pape <11so expressed appreciation fix the recent diverSIty training and n:gTetted he was unable t~) <br />attend the entire training became he needed to attend a meeting of the Oregon Le<1gue of Cities Board of <br />Directurs in Salem. IIe said the board voted to disband its resolutions committee and have a11 resolutions <br />come to the board directly on the Thursday before the annual League of Oregon Citics meeting, Be was <br />working to em:llre that those who wished to advocate fix a particular resolution were welcome to that. <br />board meeting. <br /> <br />1\tr. Pape reported he attended the Oregon Brownfields Conference and had heen very imprcssed by the <br />conference. particularly a Held l1ip h) River Place, which Vi(lS located nn brownfidds and developed as a <br />result of cooperati~m betv.reen thc Department of Environmental Quality, private intercsts, and thc <br />Portland Development Commission. <br /> <br />tvlr. Pape said he had been meeting with constituents ab()ut parks issues and frequently relied on the City's <br />election infomlation prepared fix the campaign for the parks and open space b())ld and offered to pruvide <br />copies to interested councilors. <br /> <br />\'lr. Papt: thanked City Manager Taylor for fl)flning the River Avenue Committce, saying that proccss <br />seemed to he going wel1. <br /> <br />Mr. rape announced that. the new Madison j\liddlc School opened earlier that day. <br /> <br />Mr. Pape shared Mr. Poling's intercst in knowing ,vhat went \.vrong with the fire response, <br /> <br />1\fr. Ke11y expressed concern that the upcoming joint elccted officials meeting regarding the Coburg <br />wastewater proposal had been scheduled on a date when it appeared t.hree councilors were unable tn <br />attend. He asked that staff attempt to reschedule the meeting. City Manager Taylor noted that the date <br />selected ,vas the earliest possible availab1e date, and was the date that accommodat.ed the rnost decwd <br />officials. <br /> <br />City Manager Taylor introduced new Planning and Development Department Director Susan Muir, \vho <br />\-vas <1ppointed t.o the position fo!1owing a competitive process after serving as interim director. <br /> <br />MINUTES -----Eugene City Council <br />Work Session <br /> <br />September 12, 2005 <br /> <br />Page 3 <br />