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M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Regular Session Council Chamber—City Hall September 26, 2005 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Jennifer Solomon, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Gary Papé, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Andrea Ortiz. George Poling participated by telephone. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy convened the meeting of the Eugene City Council. Angel Jones, Director of the Library, Recreation and Cultural Services Department served as acting City Manager as City Manager Dennis Taylor and Assistant City Manager Jim Carlson were unable to attend. 1. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Piercy welcomed everyone to the City Council meeting and reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. She explained that Councilor Poling was home recovering from surgery and would participate by telephone. Greg Lerigo , 2224 Lillian Street, thanked the council for adopting the slogan “Eugene–World’s Greatest City for the Arts and Outdoors” on behalf of the 29 people who attended the previous council meeting in its support. He said the advocacy group purchased a title for a Web site and that Web site was under construction. He hoped the council would review the site upon its completion, projected to be October 6. He stated that if it was acceptable, he wanted to link the City’s page to it, as well as other related pages. He also hoped that the City would soon put up a banner with the slogan on it. He reported that 67 organizations signed up for the page; organizations that were involved in all manner of arts and outdoor activities. He noted that the City of Spokane received $75,000 in services from Comcast, which put together six broadcast advertisements promoting Spokane in Seattle. He wanted to discuss the possibility of doing something similar in Eugene. He encouraged the council to have “some sort of grand announcement” in the spring to let the public know about this. He averred that websites were as valuable to local residents as to visitors. Zachary Vishanoff , Patterson Street, opposed bulldozing the neighborhood park in the West University neighborhood. He felt the plan surfaced over the summer and interest in a neighborhood garden and a poll was expressed. He thought developers had “gotten together over the summer” and had the land appraised. He felt it would be a good decision to poll the neighborhood. Mr. Vishanoff provided fliers to the council with articles on the University of Oregon’s plans to build a basketball arena. He thought the University would try to use eminent domain and the use of eminent domain merited discussion. Mr. Vishanoff stated that the West University Neighbors endorsed his resolution. He wanted an open microphone hearing to talk about the site of the basketball arena. MINUTES—Eugene City Council September 26, 2005 Page 1 Regular Session