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ATTACHMENT C <br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Regular Meeting <br />Council Chamber—Eugene City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> December 8, 2008 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Chris Pryor, Bonny Bettman, George Poling, Jennifer Solomon, Mike <br />Clark, Alan Zelenka, Betty Taylor. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: Andrea Ortiz <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />1. CEREMONIAL MATTERS <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy read a proclamation certifying the November 4, 2008, Election Results into the record. She <br />thanked the voters for supporting the two citywide ballot measures. <br /> <br />2. PUBLIC FORUM <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. <br /> <br />Zachary Vishanoff <br />, Ward 3, handed out copies of articles from the New York Times. He said people should <br />Google “New York Times Ohio arena district” to see the article. He asked that copies be passed out so that <br />he could walk the councilors through the article. He believed the planning had been “fractured” in the <br />Fairmount neighborhood. He was concerned that the University of Oregon would try to seize Hirons’ <br />Drugstore and PC Market of Choice on Franklin Boulevard using eminent domain. He felt the article would <br />help the council see the “big picture” in which “government had gone wild” and pursued privatization for a <br />sports entertainment district. <br /> <br />Drix <br /> thanked the council for their time. He reiterated his love for the City of Eugene. He averred that the <br />world was changing and being flexible to change was healthy. He related that a friend who worked in <br />advertising had shared with him that the most powerful words to use were ‘you,’ ‘new,’ and ‘now.’ He <br />wanted to share his visions in honor of the upcoming holidays and recalled “Eugene past,” the days when the <br />Eugene Hotel was in operation and there was a shoeshine business in front of it and the men of the day wore <br />fedoras and smoked cigars. He pointed out that people no longer shined shoes or smoked cigars and now <br />people wore baseball caps instead of fedoras. He wanted to figure out what the community wanted and then <br />figure out how to get it. He related his new words: “canopy thinking” in which one rose above the trees and <br />saw the bigger picture and “yaya,” the meaning of which he was not sure of but he had heard people saying <br />it a lot. <br /> <br />Mark Rabinowitz <br />, P.O. Box 51222, Eugene, thanked Councilor Bettman for her years of public service. <br />He especially appreciated her “leadership on many transportation and land use and democracy issues” in the <br />community. He had suggestions about the economic crash. He averred that “close to a quarter billion <br />dollars in public debt” was being spent on the University of Oregon arena. He opined that this money could <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 8, 2008 Page 1 <br /> Regular Meeting <br />
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