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ATTACHMENT B <br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />City Council <br />McNutt Room—Eugene City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> January 11, 2010 <br /> 7:30 p.m. <br /> <br />PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Jennifer Solomon, George Poling, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, George <br />Brown, members. <br /> <br />ABSENT: Alan Zelenka. <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. <br /> <br />1. ACTION: Election of Council Officers <br /> <br />Councilor Zelenka, seconded by Councilor Poling, moved to select Mike Clark as President of <br />the City Council for 2010. Roll call vote: the motion passed unanimously, 8:0. <br /> <br />Councilor Zelenka, seconded by Councilor Clark, moved to select Betty Taylor as Vice <br />President of the City Council for 2010. Roll call vote: the motion passed unanimously, 8:0. <br /> <br />2. PUBLIC FORUM <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules for the public forum. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy determined there was no councilor who objected to taking action on the item. <br /> <br />Mr. Clark, seconded by Ms. Ortiz, moved that the council adopt Council Bill 5022, a bill <br />adopting hazardous substance user fees for the fiscal year commencing July 2, 2010. <br /> <br />Responding to a question from Mr. Poling about the percentage increase in fees and how it related to other City <br />fees, Mr. Potter said that the fee increase was approximately six percent, but he did not know how that increase <br />compared to increases or decreases in other City fees. He said the fee was not derived by a set inflation formula <br />but rather to the number of a reporting firm’s employees. <br /> <br />Roll call vote; the motion carried 5:2; Ms. Solomon and Mr. Poling voting no. <br /> <br />Andrew Fisher <br />, 2450 Jackson Street, Eugene, sought the council’s support in preserving the former Joe <br />Romania Showroom, an example of Googie architecture. He said the showroom was considered the strongest <br />example of the style in Eugene. He suggested that the showroom was a community asset and cultural artifact <br />and could be a catalyst for redevelopment of the Walnut Street Station. He recommended it be preserved in an <br />open park-like space that gave people a chance to gather and contrasted to the proposed dense infill being <br />planned. Mr. Fisher cited several reasons in support of his proposal, including that this building embodied an <br />era of history embodied by a distinct style, was the work of accomplished local architects and builders, that it <br />contained elements of significant architectural design and innovation, that it told the history of local business <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—City Council January 11, 2010 Page 1 <br /> <br />