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MINUTES Eugene City Council Council Chamber —City Hall 777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon January 11, 2011 7:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, George Poling, Andrea Ortiz, Alan Zelenka, George Brown, Pat Farr. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Chris Pryor. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the January 11, 2011, regular meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. 1. ACTION: Election of City Council Officers for 2011 Councilor Clark, seconded by Councilor Taylor, moved to elect Betty Taylor as the council president and George Brown as the council vice president. Roll call vote: The motion passed unanimously, 7:0. 2. PUBLIC FORUM Mayor Piercy requested a moment of silence for the victims of the Tucson, Arizona shooting. Mayor Piercy reviewed the rules of the Public Forum. Pauline Hutson, 1025 Taylor Street, asked the council to consider the human factor and the large business tax base affected by the proposed West Eugene EmX extension. She suggested that to this point, they had been out of the sight and minds of the policy makers. She objected to the fact that no West 11 Avenue business owners were represented on Lane Transit District or City advisory committees discussing the route. She suggested that past City planning processes affecting 29 Avenue and Willamette Street and West Broadway had negatively affected adjacent businesses. Ms. Hutson believed Eugene was unique and charming as it was and would be more successful without such redevelopment. She said the council seemed intent on destroying Eugene with rezoning, overlays, and mixed -use development, with LTD compounding the problem through tree removal and bus lane construction that disrupted neighborhoods and took away valuable parking from businesses. Ms. Hutson supported public transportation in the right location. She did not think LTD's plan for West Eugene, which she called wrong and unnecessary, was sustainable. Robert Rubin, 2836 West 11 Avenue, believed the issue of school funding was beyond the City's charge and suggested a new City tax for schools would not be popular. MINUTES— Eugene City Council January 11, 2010 Page 1 Regular Meeting