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City of Eugene City Hall Complex Master Plan Community Forum #1-Summary Report . It's important to have some police presence downtown, but I'd like to see precincts. . Lane County Disaster Manager, speaking to City Club, reported in December 2005 "if you have critical services in the basement, you might want to move these services to the 2nd floor." Our comments: If an earthquake of the size that would topple buildings in the downtown happens... dams will probably break and the city downtown may be severely flooded... Leading us to believe the Police Dept. should be moved out of the downtown core. .. closer to the hills. It depends on how it pencils out. (Keeping police facilities there) . I think police presence should be more evenly distributed in "substations" rather than downtown concentration. . Having satellite police stations set up with or similarly like our fire stations that seem to work well for response. . Patrol offices can be spread throughout the city. There must be some patrol facilities downtown but not all facilities need to be downtown. . Precincts! == sense of community. This is possible and works. What about a precinct model with a downtown precinct located to allow interaction between patrol and city employees? What about victim and arrestees interactions with public? It should be different than interaction with patrol. . Police patrol should be outsourced to the satellite community police centers. . All city government functions should be located within the designated downtown area. . Dispersing patrol into neighborhoods helps build community relationships, dissipate the militaristic model that presently exists in our dept. model. . Think about the future of policing needs in the next 20-30 years of growth. That to me means dispersing them to precincts. . Why patrol not downtown? Does not promote community policing! Create neighborhood precincts and spread the Patrol Division out across the City. . Re Question 3: 1. Land costs downtown are too high to use it to store automobiles. 2. Establish precinct stations out in the community. 3. The Chief belongs near the City Manager in City Hall-the rest of the police functions belong in precinct stations or in a single facility located at 2nd and Chambers. . 50% of opinion favored dispersing police functions, principally for economic cost and efficiency reasons. A minority felt it was important that police not be isolated from the public/other city government. . For diversity of earthquake safety, have a police station on each side of the river. . Revised to read: How important is it to you to have some patrol facilities located downtown? . If patrol function is moved from existing building, important to find ways to bring light into rehabilitated spaces (glass block?). . It is not important to have the police downtown: Dispersal to neighborhood police stations could be enabled by this. The JD White Company, Inc. Page 17 April 2006