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functionally without deterrents. He averred that when a police department failed to deter its own police force or investigate its own, everyone “failed.” He preferred to live in a City where police were “friendly, cooperative, and well-managed by themselves” but he believed that he lived in a city where the police were disrespectful of the Police Auditor. He felt they should strengthen the office of auditor in order to “inflict upon the Police Department” that they wanted the department to “behave better.” He felt that lawsuits against the department would be prevented if there were proper deterrents within the department to correct behavior “before it got out of hand.” He postulated that there would have been fewer victims in the Magaña/Lara scandal had there been external police oversight at the time. He felt that hiring another legal firm was the “best bet” to ensure that language written into the code would have consequences. th Samantha Chirillo , 157 East 27 Avenue, Apt. 3, expressed admiration for Councilor Bettman. She said she would not have come to the meetings she had attended if not for Councilor Bettman. She agreed with Ms. Berg-Caldwell’s disappointment that Councilor Bettman’s motion to hire another law firm to help with the committee on external police review had not been approved. She believed that having an inhouse legal service would save money. She stated that she was testifying in the capacity of her service on the steering committee for the Citizens for Public Accountability (CPA). She wished to convey the recommendation that Mr. Nelson, who had testified earlier, be appointed to the newly formed ordinance review committee. She felt he represented Eugene’s youth and its activist community, both sectors she thought had “bad experi- ences” with the law enforcement community. She said he had been an extremely reliable and conscientious volunteer for a variety of environmental and civil liberties causes. She averred that he had the experience to build “necessary bridges” and he had, as a member of the Campbell Club student co-op, also participated in consensus decision-making. Marina Hajek , 3703 Westleigh Street, along with Josefina Hajek, Andrea Corbin, and Olivia Jennings presented $160 they had raised to help with the Bailey Hill Road improvements. Ms. J. Hajek presented the money to the Mayor in order to prevent Bailey Hill Road from “any future accidents.” Ms. Corbin said she had helped Ms. J. Hajek raise the money. Ms. Jennings added that she was happy to have helped raise this money to help fix some of the problems with the road. Ms. M. Hajek stated that she was here with her daughter and her two friends in order to present the money they had raised by selling lemonade and Christmas cookies to help improve the safety on Bailey Hill Road. She related that her daughter had been concerned when she read that it would cost a lot of money to fix the roads and had suggested that she give the City her savings. She had advised her daughter that they could organize something more efficient than that and she could keep her savings. Her daughter and friends had come up with the idea for the lemonade stand and the Christmas cookie sales. She remarked that she was very thankful to her daughter’s friends for their help raising the money. She said the children had been very concerned about the safety of all children around Bailey Hill Road. She related that they kept seeing the problems and they did not understand why it took so much time to make changes. She had told the children that if they spoke out the elected officials might listen. She said she would be very “cheerful” the day they saw the changes start to be implemented so that they would prevent any more casualties from happening there such as the accident that had taken the life of her son, Vaclav. She looked forward to seeing that job done in the next summer. Ms. M. Hajek said since they had seen that their voices had been heard, they also wished to address the issue of further education for young people to become safe drivers. She did not want to see 16-year-old drivers on the road. She likened it to giving weapons to children. She related that since her son’s death she had paid more attention to the news about how many teenagers were involved in accidents. She noted that a few weeks earlier a 16-year-old girl had been in an accident and two people in her car had died. She did not believe 16-year-old drivers were mentally mature enough to take the responsibility and to measure the risks and consequences of their actions. MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 8, 2008 Page 4 Regular Meeting