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07/01/99 08:26 541 683 6826 EUG PUBLIC WORKS -444 MAINTENANCE 2001 97 <br /> ' <br /> FORREST Beth L Post -It"' brand fax transmittal memo 7871 I *ot pases ► <br /> To ' <br /> P.li` n� ���From&/per <br /> From: Robert Sprick [rsprick @efn.org] <br /> Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 10:48 AM Dep+. y . T p ry <br /> To: jim.d.torrey@ci.eugene.or.us �_ 5. S 7 <br /> Subject Sports Complex Fax # c5, <br /> June 25, 1999 <br /> Mayor Jim Torrey <br /> City of Eugene Council <br /> 777 Pearl Street <br /> Eugene, OR 97401 <br /> Dear Mayor <br /> The purpose of this letter is to address issues about the planned sports <br /> field partnership. The four field approached approved by 4J and the <br /> City is being moved forward without the funds to do the project in a <br /> responsible manner. I am writing primarily about the Sheldon Sports <br /> Complex. <br /> These projects you are committing to fall $1,000,000 short of the <br /> desired needs of the school district. I hear private funding will be <br /> raised to make up the difference. Does this mean we will have fields <br /> named after donors with large signs polluting the neighborhood? Or will <br /> it be plan B to allow billboard advertising on the perimeter fencing. <br /> Or a combination of both to make a truly hideous view. I seem to recall <br /> great efforts by the City government to limit commercial advertising <br /> signs. Do you have the control or does 4J when it comes down to the <br /> method used to raise this extra million or more if cost overruns occur. <br /> What about the Sheldon Community Center planning day where one <br /> suggestion had the stadium field located behind the Willakenzie Fire <br /> Station? This would have been the best spot to reduce the impact on the <br /> neighborhood. It would require relocating the softball field and <br /> spanning an open drainage ditch. What about the parking to access this <br /> sports complex being over a 1/4 mile away. To make Improvements to do <br /> the job RIGHT would cost money that is not there. It is easier for <br /> council to vote for this moment in time and leave it to the next <br /> generations of council to fix their lack of responsible stewardship and <br /> foresight. The tax payers have given you millions. Have you traveled to <br /> these sights and looked at what is being done? If you go to Sheldon, <br /> which I hope you find the time to do. Please park at the East end the <br /> of Sheldon High School parking lot (Coburg Road end) and take the hike <br /> that you are approving as adequate parking facilities. Once on the <br /> proposed field site, envision at how close this all weather stadium <br /> field and its' lights until 11 P.M. six days a week are going to effect <br /> the neighbors. Notice also how much closer the neighborhood streets are <br /> much closer to the proposed complex than where you parked. <br /> At the Council meeting I heard two question from the Council to the City <br /> staff as to who can use these million dollar plus fields. Did you get a <br /> straight answer? Did they tell you that not you or your neighbor were <br /> going to be allowed on these field_ Maybe a better question would have <br /> been, "Can I take my child or a friend over to one of these fields and <br /> 8 <br />