Item B: Next Steps on Police Facility/City Hall

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ATTACHMENT C CONSOLIDATED COMMENTS FROM PUBLIC FORUMS June 23, 2009 & June 25, 2009 Discussion: Moving Police out of City Hall to site on Country Club Road LEGEND Hollow bullets indicate specific responses from City staff to questions posed by the public during the o forum. Clarifying Questions – following Mike Penwell’s presentation ? Can we trade the Country Club Road building for the Veteran’s Administration [who occupy space in the federal building]? The GSA has specific guidelines, and is not in the practice of trading buildings that they o own. ? Could we trade City Hall for the Country Club Road site? The Country Club Road site is more desirable and worth a lot more o ? What are the seismic standards of the Country Club Road facility? Original construction was higher than the standards at the time o The owners have done a lot of updating so far o Engineering analysis/plan is to bring up to current “essential facility” seismic levels o ? What is the condition of the Country Club Road building? Because the building was originally a Pacific Bell call center, it had higher standards than o normal, at the time The owners completely renovated the building in 1997/98 and made structural o improvements If the City acquires the building, they would bring it up to LEED (energy efficiency) o standards, including equipment replacement It has an open floor plan and is easy to remodel o It was built in 1982, but is more like a 1997 building o ? What would happen to the Country Club Road site in the event of a subduction zone earthquake? The City has planned for flooding and earthquake scenarios, many of which include events o that only happen every 100 or 500 years. In the event of a subduction zone earthquake (possibly resulting in a 9 or higher on the Richter scale for several minutes) not many buildings in Eugene would be suitable to withstand it without damage. Also, regarding floods, even with the Country Club building close to the river, it was built higher than the flood plain. In the event of a flood – to the level of the 500 year flood – we would likely have 2-3 days warning to prepare as the river rises. it is possible that the parking garage would be impacted/damaged. We need to be flexible and open to opportunities, and this is the first building in 10 years that is this compliant. Emergency access issues have been discussed, including creating an egress from the o parking lot onto the freeway Bridge collapse scenario o Scenarios have been discussed o Hopefully not every single bridge would be out o Page 1 of 11 Consolidated Comments from June 09 Public Forums.docx