Item 3A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT C MINUTES Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room-Eugene City Hall October 10, 2005 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Gary Pape. In the absence of Mayor Kitty Piercy, Council President George Poling called the September 12, 2005, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. He noted that Mayor Piercy and Mr. Pape were out of the country on a visit to the City's sister cities in Korea and Japan. A. COMMITTEE REPORTS AND ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND CITY MANAGER Ms. Ortiz had no items Mr. Pryor reported that he recently attended the 35th Anniversary celebration dinner of Lookingglass Youth Services, and termed if a very good event for an excellent agency. Ms. Bettman said she was recently walking in the neighborhood where the Helen Park subdivision was scheduled to be constructed. She expressed concern that the City signs alerting people to the new development proposals were very flimsy and had fallen down because of the weather. She recalled the council's original discussion about the nature of the signs and said the signs being used were not stable enough or high enough to be clearly viewed. Ms. Bettman said she had reviewed the conditional approval for Helen Park and was struck by the fact that the subdivision included a special setback for future right-of-way acquisition along West 28th Avenue. She asked to what degree the City was acquiring right-of-way along the West 28th Avenue. It sounded to her like there must be a concrete plan to widen West 28th Avenue, and she asserted that was contrary to what City staff told her when the road was resurfaced and the lanes reconfigured. She asked if the City was pursuing similar right-of-way acquisitions along West 18th Avenue, and to what extent. Mr. Kelly agreed with Ms. Bettman about the development notification signs. Mr. Kelly briefed the council on the final meeting of the Public Safety Task Force, saying the main topic of discussion was possible financing options. The task force spent considerable time discussing Lane County Commissioner Faye Stewart's proposal. Mr. Kelly credited Commissioner Stewart for his willingness to step forward with a proposal, which was to move existing public safety services outside the MINUTES-Eugene City Council Work Session October 10, 2005 Page 1