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