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COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
EUGENE, OREGON,
APR I L 29, I 955.
THE REGULAR MEETING or THE COMMON COUNCI'L ~~,THE CITY or EUGENE' WAS HELD ON APRIL I I, 25,
AND 27, 1955 AND ADJOURNED TO APRIL .29, 195!:) AT 5:00 P.M. IN THE COUNCIL C,HAMBERS. IN ,THE I
ABSENCE or MAYOR JOHNSON, THE MEETING WAS 'CALLED TO ORDER BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT, ROBERT BOOTH,
WI TH THE rOLLOWI NG COUNC I LMEN PRESENT: MR. -BOOTH, MR. KOPPE, MR. WATSON, MR. OwEN. MR. SHEARER
AND MR. SHISLER. MESSRS. GODLOVE AND HARTMA~ WE~~ ABSENT.
RESOLUTI ON
RESOLUTION - RE: A SPECIAL ELECTION rORA TAX ~EVY or $165,000.00 rOR TEN YEARS rOR,
OPERATION or THE fiRE DEPARTMENT WAS PRESENTED rOR CONSIDERATION. IT WAS READ AS rOL~OWS:
"BE IT 'RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COMMON ~OUNCIL OF'THE CITY OF EUGENE THAT THERE
BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS or SAID CITY FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR REJECTION AT A SPECIAL
ELECTION TO BE HELD, ON THE 30TH DAY OF JUNE, 1955, WITHIN THE CITY OF EUGENE, OREGON
THE rOLLO~ING CHARTER AMtNDMENT, TO-WIT:
CHARTER AMENDMENT
AN ACT
To AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE C1TY OF EUGENE BY ADDING A NEW CHAPTER THERETO AUTHOR~
,IZING, EMPOWERING AND DIRECTING THE COMMON COUNCIL TO LEVY, ASSESS AN~ COLLECT TAXES
NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM or $165,000.00 EACH YEAR rOR A PERIOD OF TEN YEARS, COMMENCING
WITH THE LEVY rOR THE TAX ROLL rOR THE rlSCAL YEAR 1955-1956, AND TO LEVY, ASSESS AND
COLLECT A MILLAGE BASED UPON THE DOLLAR VALUATION, UPON ALL PROPERTY, REAL AND PERSONAL,
WITHIN THE CITY or EUGENE, NOT EXEMPT rROM TAXATION surrlCIENT TO RAISE SAID AMOUNT EACH
YEAR DURING SAID TERM OF TEN YEARS. THE PROCEEDS rROM SAID TAX SHALL BE USED rOR THE
PURPOSE OF ASSISTING IN MANNING, EQUIPPING AND OPERATING THE flREDEP4RTMENT ~r THE
CITY or EUGENE. SAID LEVY TO BE IN ADDITION TO AND IN EXCESS or THE CONSTITUTIONAL SIX
PER CENT LIMITATION UPON THE CITY TAX LEVY.
THE CITY Of EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS fOLLOWS:
BE IT ENACTED BY THE ELECTORS or THE CITY or EUGENE, OREGON:
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SECTION I. THE COMMON CoaNCIL or THE CITY or EUGENE IS HEREBY AUTHORIZED, EMPOWERED
AND DIRECTED TO LEVY, ASSESS AND COLLECT TAXES NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM or $165,000.00 EACH
YEAR rOR A PERIOD or TEN YEARS, COMMENCING WITH THE LEVY FOR THE TAX ROLL FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR 1955-1956, AND TO LEVY, ASSESS AND COLLECT A MILLAGE BASED UPON THE DOLLAR VALUATION,
UPON ALL PROPERTY, REAL AND PERSONAL, WITHfN THE CITY or EUGENE, NOT EXEMPT FROM TAXATION
SUFFICIENT TO RAISE SAID AMOUNT EACH YEAR DURING SAID TERM or TEN'YEARS.
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Ar.TER SOME DISCUSSION, IT WAS MOVED BY MR. OWEN, SECONDED BY MR. SHEARER THAT THE RESOLUTION I
BE ADOPTED. ON A ROLLCALL VOTE, THE MOTION CARRIED WITH FOUR COUNCILMEN rAVORING ADOPTION AND I
TWO VOTING AGAINST. THE "NO" VOTES WERE CAST BY COUNCILMEN WATSON AND SHISLER.
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SECTION 2.
THIS LEVY SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO EXISTING LEVIES.
SECTION 3. THE MONEY REALIZED BY THE LEVY HEREIN PROVIDED FOR SHALL BE DEPOSITED
IN, KEPT AND DISBURSED rROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FUND.
SECTION 4. THAT SAID MONEY SHALL BE DISBURSED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL- BY WARRANTS
DRAWN BY THE COUNCIL UPON SAID fiRE DEPARTMENT OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE fUND, SAID
WARRANTS TO BE SIGNED BY'THE MAYOR AND CITY RECORDER.
SECTION 5. THIS LEVY WILL BE IN ADDITION TO AND IN EXCESS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SIX
PER CENT LIMITATION UPON THE CITY'S TAX LEVY.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED THIS 29TH DAY or APRIL, 1955."
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION rROM LANE COUNTY CHAPTER or THE AMERICAN RED CROSS - RE: PERMIT FOR A,RAMP
OVER AN ALLEY TO CONNECT TWO BUILDINGS WAS SUBMITTED AND READ AS rOLLOWS:
"THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE LANE COUNTY CHAPTER or THE AMERICAN RED CROSS HAS
NEGOTIATED AN AGREEMENT TO SELL THE PRESENT BUILDING LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF
THE ALLEY AND 47 WEST 8TH STREET CONTINGENT UPON THE PERMISSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO
ALLOW THE PURCHASER, MR. MAURICE JACOBS, TO CONSTRUCT A RAMP FROM HIS BUILDING OCCUPIED
BY THE STERLINE fURNITURE COMPANY ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER or THIS SAME ALLEY, IN OTHER
WORDS ACROSS THE ALLEY TO OUR BUILDING. THIS RAMP WOULD BE 18 rEET ABOVE THE LEVEL or
THE ALLEY ON THE BOTTOM AND 8 rEET ABOVE, IT WOULD BE SUPPORTED BY TWO 8 X 12 "I" BEAMS
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or IRON WITH WOOD OR METAL DECK. THE CONTRACTORS ESTIMATE THAT NO CUT IN THE POWER OR
TELEPHONE LINES WOULD BE NECESSARY TO BRING THEM TO THE TOP or THIS RAMP.
AT THE DIRECTION or THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, I WOULD RESPECTrULLY REQUEST THAT YOU
BRING THIS MATTER BErORE THE COUNCIL AT THEIR MEETING THIS AFTERNOON, SO THAT THIS SALE
CAN BE CONSUMMATED."
IT WAS MOVED BY MR. KOPPE, SECONDED BY MR. OwEN THAT THE MATTER BE RErERRED TO THE PUBLIC
WORKS COMMITTEE. MOTION CARRIED.
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IT WAS EXPLAINED BY THE CITY MANAGER THAT THE EUGENE WATER AND ELECTRIC BOARD HAD RE-
QUESTED THE COUNCIL TO EXPRESS ITS APPROVAL, rORMALLY, or HR 4662 WHICH PROVIDES rOR,CONSTRUC-
TIONor COUGAR DAM AND TO INDICATE ITS POSITION BY A COMMUNICATION TO THE OREGON DELEGATION IN
CONGRESS.
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IT WAS MOVED BY MR. KOPPE, SECONDED BY MR. OWEN THAT THE COUNCIL EXPRESS ITS APPROVAL or
THE PASSAGE or HR 4662 ON COUGAR DAM AND THAT A COMMUNICATION BE SENT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
DELEGATION URGING SUPPORT or THE BILL. MOTION CARRIED.
UPON MOTION DULY MADE, SECONDED AND CARRIED, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED.
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RESPECTrULLY SUBMITTED,
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ROBERT A. FINLAYSON,
CI TY MANAGER.
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