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<br /> <br />? <br />More building details needed <br /> <br />? <br />Will you combine policing functions? <br /> <br />? <br />What do we do with City Hall if we get the rest of the folks out? <br /> <br />? <br />Value of police station <br /> <br />? <br />What happens to existing Police facility? <br /> <br />? <br />Why ask? <br /> <br />? <br />8 years of missed opportunities!? <br /> <br />? <br />How many leases does the City have? <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Written statement read aloud by Paul Spain, e-mailed to Krisitie Hammitt & Mike Clark, and quoted <br />below: <br /> <br />“My name is Paul Spain, I reside at 1112 Valley Butte Drive, Eugene, Oregon. <br /> <br />I am here this evening to speak out in favor of moving the police department to the building being <br />considered on Country Club Road. <br /> <br />It is time for the elected officials of this city to stop pandering to the populist ideas of the few and <br />extreme, and embrace the responsibilities of their offices for the many and the moderate. <br /> <br />This city has eviscerated the police department and bombarded them with administrative oversight <br />to the point that they have destroyed the morale of our men and women in uniform who put <br />themselves at risk everyday for the citizens of our community. To continue to require them to work <br />in a cramped, unsafe work environment is morally irresponsible and borders on fiscal malfeasance. <br />They have been forced to work in the very same cramped, unsafe work environment vacated by our <br />fire department several years ago. Why you would want to deny our police force the same respect <br />and courtesy shown to our firefighters is beyond comprehension. <br /> <br />If this were a private employer making the same decision, this city’s elected officials would be moving <br />mountain and mole hill, day and night, to force them to move to a facility that would be better for its <br />employees, such as the matter before us. Give our officers the respect and courtesy they so well <br />deserve by at the very least, providing them, and us as citizens, a safe and efficient work <br />environment. Do not squander this opportunity to acquire a facility that is fundamentally move in <br />ready which I would expect could be readied for their occupancy within a year. Attempting to retrofit <br />the existing structure that is seismically unsafe and likely riddled with hazardous environmental <br />conditions such as asbestos and lead paint, which would be released in the air during a retrofitting <br />process, would add additional expense to such an endeavor, no doubt increasing costs well beyond <br />current estimates.” <br />Page 11 of 11 <br />Consolidated Comments from June 09 Public Forums.docx <br /> <br />