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ATTACHMENT A <br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Council Chamber—City Hall—777 Pearl Street <br />Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> January 19, 2010 <br /> 10:00 a.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Alan Zelenka, Mike Clark, Andrea Ortiz, Jennifer Solomon, Chris Pryor, <br />George Poling, George Brown, Betty Taylor. <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the public hearing of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />1. PUBLIC HEARING <br /> An Ordinance Providing for Withdrawal of Annexed Properties from the Willakenzie Rural <br />Fire Protection District, the Santa Clara Rural Fire Protection District, and from the Santa <br />Clara Water District. <br /> <br />City Manager Jon Ruiz stated the public hearing was for an ordinance to withdraw annexed land to the City <br />from public service districts. There were eleven properties to be withdrawn from three service districts. <br />City Council action was scheduled for February 8, 2010. <br /> <br />Ms. Piercy opened the public hearing and called for public testimony. Noting no one wished to address the <br />council, she closed the public hearing. There were no questions from councilors. <br /> <br /> <br />2. PUBLIC HEARING <br /> An Ordinance Prohibiting Smoking Outside City-Owned Buildings Providing Services to <br />Children and Amending Section 6.230 of the Eugene code, 1971. <br /> <br />City Manager Jon Ruiz explained the purpose of the proposed change was to provide a healthier atmosphere <br />and better protection for children using City services by prohibiting smoking outside of City- owned <br />buildings such as libraries, pools, sports parks and community centers. The proposed ordinance extending <br />the prohibition to the curb outside affected buildings was anticipated to be easier to communicate to the <br />public and thus take fewer resources to enforce. <br /> <br />Ms. Piercy opened the public hearing and called for public testimony. <br /> <br />Stephanie Young-Petersen, <br />135 East Sixth Avenue, identified herself as an employee for the Lane County <br />Public Health Department, and a resident of the City of Eugene. She focused on research on second-hand <br />smoke exposure and trends for eliminating this exposure in outdoor environments. Public awareness of the <br />adverse health effects of second-hand exposure had grown as had the political will to do something about it. <br />Oregon had a strong statewide smoke-free work place law due to the early leadership of the Eugene and <br />Corvallis City Councils. In May 2007, researchers at Stanford University released the results in the Journal <br />of the Air and Waste Management Association on one of the first in-depth studies on the issue. The study <br />concluded that a non-smoker sitting a few feet downwind from a smoldering cigarette was likely to be <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 19, 2010 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br />