Item 3A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Mr. Pryor said that the Human Services Commission was doing some visioning and goal-setting to help make sure that the relationships between the different agencies was effective and working at a high level. Ms. Ortiz reported that CentroLatino Americano received a health care grant. Ms. Bettman informed the City Manager that some members of the public reported having difficulty accessing the City Council agendas on the website. She said that the problems had been persisting for several weeks and asked that staff research the source of the trouble so that people could have better access to what the council was doing. Mr. Kelly reported that at the Metropolitan Policy Committee (MPC) meeting, an update was given about the federal Surface Transportation Program-Urban (STP-U) money for transportation. He said that the money for this region would be reduced from $3.5 million over three years to $3 million, which might mean that MPC would have to reduce some of its allocations. Mr. Kelly made a follow-up request to the City Manager for an outline in a broad form of what would be involved in reviving the former tree ordinance, chapters 6 and 9. Ms. Taylor mentioned that she was also interested in knowing about the tree ordinance. Ms. Taylor announced that her e-mail was not working. Ms. Taylor said that she received a call from one of her constituents saying when a complaint had been made to the Eugene Police Department (EPD) about a long and well-attended party on Onyx Place, the police responded that they did not have the staff to respond. Ms. Taylor said that she would like to know more about that. Ms. Taylor observed that a recent four-hour meeting attended by city councilors was held in a place in which the meeting could not be cablecast. She also noted that there was no media present. She said that she thought that the public needed to know what was going on with the City Council all the time. She said that she was also disappointed in the parking at the facility. She said that she did not understand why the meeting was not held at City Hall where everyone knew where to park and where the meeting could be cablecast to the public. Ms. Taylor also commented that it seemed to her that at this meeting, without public input, the council went a long way toward deciding that City Hall would not be remodeled but would be replaced with a new building. She reiterated that she thought that the public should know what the council was doing. Mr. Pape complimented the staff and the City Manager for receiving the International City Managers Association (lCMA) award for the City's accounting performance measurement. He said that he thought that these measurements would be helpful in reviewing and assessing where the City was "on track" or "off track." Mr. Pape announced that the mayor would he holding her one-on-one in Ward 5 on October 25 at 5 p.m. at the Market of Choice on Green Acres and Delta Highway. He encouraged his constituents to come and meet with the mayor. He informed Mayor Piercy that there would probably be some people there to talk about an issue on Holly Avenue. Mr. Pape said that he, Mr. Poling, and Mr. Taylor had a meeting scheduled during the week with some residents of Holly Avenue. He told the mayor that he would apprise her of the situation. MINUTES-Eugene City Council Work Session October 24, 2005 Page 2