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auditor. She and her colleague, Carol Berg - Caldwell, had enjoyed working with her. She appreciated the way Ms. Reynolds worked with the community. She understood that the police auditor had a right to decide who would work in the office with him. She read in the newspaper that the auditor had stated that they were restructuring the office and would be moving in a different direction. This brought to mind the question for her of what was important to the community. She said the auditor intended to conduct a nationwide search for a new deputy auditor and wondered what the criteria would be, especially since the deputy auditor could conceivably become the police auditor at some future point. She also wished to mention the lines on the sidewalk that Ms. Berg - Caldwell had read the poem about. She thought they were "uglifying" the downtown area. She averred that there had been some confusion about enforcement and she and Ms. Berg - Caldwell had asked questions about the ordinance and the police officers there were not able to cite the ordinance. Mayor Piercy closed the Public Forum. She thanked everyone for coming and speaking. She wished to thank the School Board for School District 4J in particular. She understood that the Planning and Development Department (PDD) had decided not to enforce the chicken ordinance pending council discussion and possible revision of it. Councilor Pryor thanked everyone for their testimony, calling them an interesting and thoughtful group of people. He asked for further information on the authority of the HRC to dismiss commissioners. Regarding the chicken issue, he appreciated that PDD had ceased enforcement until the council could consider the issue. As for mountain bike access, he said the council hesitated to get into specific issues of operation, but there were policy issues to consider with regard to runner /pedestrian/bicycle interface. He acknowledged the request to extend the Envision Eugene timeline and asked if there were obstacles to doing so. Continuing, Councilor Pryor stated that he served on the West EmX Extension Corridor Committee and he had walked the canal and the 13th Avenue section. He felt there were a lot of problems with that particular route. Another issue that was important to him was the impacts that a West 11th Avenue route would have on businesses along that route. He said the committee planned to meet on June 2 at 5 p.m., downtown, and at this point there were 58 different permutations of what the route could be and they were trying to "weed through all of them." He felt they were being careful and deliberate in their actions. He underscored that this issue encompassed the larger transportation issue in West Eugene and EmX was simply the beginning part of it. Councilor Ortiz echoed everything Councilor Pryor said about the West 11th Avenue corridor. She had also spent a lot of time walking the bike path along the Amazon Canal. She also wished to underscore that homelessness was always a part of the work that they were doing. She said part of the Envision Eugene process included the triple bottom line analysis, one aspect of which was social equity. Her interpretation of this was that everything they were doing would be tested with that analysis in mind. Councilor Clark thanked everyone for their testimony. He thought the young people did a fantastic job of presenting the arguments for increasing the limit on backyard chickens. He also echoed Councilor Pryor's comments. He related that five years earlier he had taken a Rototiller to his backyard and he and his family ate from their garden from March until December. He had asked his wife about chickens and she had vetoed the idea. He supported the idea of expanding what was possible on a local basis. Councilor Zelenka thanked School District 4J. He said the West 11th corridor was a citywide problem that needed to be fixed. He stated that part of the solution was more transit. He agreed that LTD was not perfect, but he pointed out that it was one of the best run transit districts with one of the highest per capita riderships in the country. He averred that the Franklin Boulevard EmX corridor had demonstrated that with better and more frequent and convenient service, ridership increased. He related that the Franklin corridor had exceeded its 20- year projection for ridership in its first year. He pointed out that the EmX used hybrid buses. He said telling him MINUTES— Eugene City Council May 24, 2010 Page 9 Regular Meeting