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force or investigate its own, everyone “failed.” He preferred to live in a City where police were “friendly, <br />cooperative, and well-managed by themselves” but he believed that he lived in a city where the police were <br />disrespectful of the Police Auditor. He felt they should strengthen the office of auditor in order to “inflict <br />upon the Police Department” that they wanted the department to “behave better.” He felt that lawsuits <br />against the department would be prevented if there were proper deterrents within the department to correct <br />behavior “before it got out of hand.” He postulated that there would have been fewer victims in the <br />Magaña/Lara scandal had there been external police oversight at the time. He felt that hiring another legal <br />firm was the “best bet” to ensure that language written into the code would have consequences. <br /> <br />th <br />Samantha Chirillo <br />, 157 East 27 Avenue, Apt. 3, expressed admiration for Councilor Bettman. She said <br />she would not have come to the meetings she had attended if not for Councilor Bettman. She agreed with <br />Ms. Berg-Caldwell’s disappointment that Councilor Bettman’s motion to hire another law firm to help with <br />the committee on external police review had not been approved. She believed that having an inhouse legal <br />service would save money. She stated that she was testifying in the capacity of her service on the steering <br />committee for the Citizens for Public Accountability (CPA). She wished to convey the recommendation that <br />Mr. Nelson, who had testified earlier, be appointed to the newly formed ordinance review committee. She <br />felt he represented Eugene’s youth and its activist community, both sectors she thought had “bad experi- <br />ences” with the law enforcement community. She said he had been an extremely reliable and conscientious <br />volunteer for a variety of environmental and civil liberties causes. She averred that he had the experience to <br />build “necessary bridges” and he had, as a member of the Campbell Club student co-op, also participated in <br />consensus decision-making. <br /> <br />Marina Hajek <br />, 3703 Westleigh Street, along with Josefina Hajek, Andrea Corbin, and Olivia Jennings <br />presented $160 they had raised to help with the Bailey Hill Road improvements. Ms. J. Hajek presented the <br />money to the Mayor in order to prevent Bailey Hill Road from “any future accidents.” Ms. Corbin said she <br />had helped Ms. J. Hajek raise the money. Ms. Jennings added that she was happy to have helped raise this <br />money to help fix some of the problems with the road. <br /> <br />Ms. M. Hajek stated that she was here with her daughter and her two friends in order to present the money <br />they had raised by selling lemonade and Christmas cookies to help improve the safety on Bailey Hill Road. <br />She related that her daughter had been concerned when she read that it would cost a lot of money to fix the <br />roads and had suggested that she give the City her savings. She had advised her daughter that they could <br />organize something more efficient than that and she could keep her savings. Her daughter and friends had <br />come up with the idea for the lemonade stand and the Christmas cookie sales. She remarked that she was <br />very thankful to her daughter’s friends for their help raising the money. She said the children had been very <br />concerned about the safety of all children around Bailey Hill Road. She related that they kept seeing the <br />problems and they did not understand why it took so much time to make changes. She had told the children <br />that if they spoke out the elected officials might listen. She said she would be very “cheerful” the day they <br />saw the changes start to be implemented so that they would prevent any more casualties from happening <br />there such as the accident that had taken the life of her son, Vaclav. She looked forward to seeing that job <br />done in the next summer. <br /> <br />Ms. M. Hajek said since they had seen that their voices had been heard, they also wished to address the issue <br />of further education for young people to become safe drivers. She did not want to see 16-year-old drivers on <br />the road. She likened it to giving weapons to children. She related that since her son’s death she had paid <br />more attention to the news about how many teenagers were involved in accidents. She noted that a few <br />weeks earlier a 16-year-old girl had been in an accident and two people in her car had died. She did not <br />believe 16-year-old drivers were mentally mature enough to take the responsibility and to measure the risks <br />and consequences of their actions. <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 8, 2008 Page 4 <br /> Regular Meeting <br />
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