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