COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL JANUARY 25, 2017
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Emerald Villages set for CG
BY CAITLYN MAY
cmay@cgsentinel.com
Site development has be-
gun on Hayden Home’s new-
est project, Emerald Village.
The multi-family develop-
ment is expected to generate
32 individual cottages with
construction on the homes
slated for this spring.
Plans include options for
four different style homes
ranging from 500 to 1,200
square feet. However, accord-
ing to city planner Amanda
Ferguson, the majority of
the homes will be 800-1,000
square feet.
“These are market rate
rentals,” Ferguson said.
While
concern
over
“low-income” housing with-
in the city limits has risen
on social media, according
to Hayden Homes, Emerald
Villages is not planned as a
Section 8 development.Units
will be owned and managed
by Hayden Homes. Poor
weather and an inability to
obtain equipment was cited as
a cause of construction delay.
As of the press deadline,
Hayden Homes had failed to
return multiple attempts to
reach its media representa-
tive.
CITY COUNCIL DEBATES JUDGE CONTRACT
BY CAITLYN MAY
cmay@cgsentinel.com
submitted by Gary Ackley
Local resident leaves behind scholarship dreams
The Cottage Grove Community Foundation has
announced that it has received a bequest from the
estate of John Gorny to create a scholarship en-
dowment fund. Gorny died in Jul y of last year.
Gorney emigrated from Germany, where his
father was a hotelier in Berlin, before settling in
Chicago where he, himself, worked for the Hilton
Hotel Corporation.
Gorny eventually settled in Cottage Grove
where he and his wife, Inge enjoyed riding horses.
By the provisions of his will, Gorny directed
that a percentage of his estate would be distribut-
ed to the Cottage Grove Community Foundation
to create the John and Inge Gorney Scholarship
Endowment Fund. The income from which would
be used for an annual scholarship for student
graduating from Cottage Grove High School in
pursuit of an education in veterinary medicine or
animal husbandry. Permanent endowment funds
are administered by the Cottage Grove Commu-
nity Foundation in partnership with the Oregon
Community Foundation. The Gorny scholarship
is expected to exceed $1,500 per year.
The Community Foundation is governed by
a volunteer board and has a paid employee who
works an average of six hours a week as well as a
paid part-time executive director. The board has a
goal of providing a scholarship for each graduate
of Cottage Grove High School who enters col-
lege. In 2016, it awarded 91 scholarships totaling
$103,300.
The Cottage Grove City Council is in charge
of two positions within the city: the city manager,
Richard Meyers and judge Mark Fisher. Fisher's
contract is set to expire and on Monday, Jan. 23,
the council took up discussion on its next moe
concerning the judicial seat.
"He's interested in modifi cations for his con-
tract," Meyers told the council, noting that the
board could meet with the judge to determine his
requests and/or evaluate the judge. The evalua-
tion, however, would be a longer and more com-
plicated road.
An impartial evaluation, according to Meyers
would be diffi cult to get noting that if the city
polled defense attorneys and law enforcement,
they may have very distinct opions of the judge.
Councilor Mike Fleck was also careful to point
out the the council could not venture into the ter-
ritory of evaluating the judge's rulings but instead,
only focus on how he administered his court.
Discussion arose on how the council would go
about meeting with the judge for contract negoti-
ations with the city attorney and Meyers sugges-
tion just one council meet with Fisher. However,
Mayor Jeff Gowing asked that there be two mem-
bers present. His suggestion brought up the issue
that, if multiple councilors are present, a need for
the keeping of minutes becomes an issue.
"I would rather have two and I'm not scared to
have a record to go along with that," Gowing said.
Meyers pointed out that if one member went
to Fisher, that member would be returning with
information to the board. However, if multiple
members met with Fisher and discussed their
meeting and presented a joint block of informa-
tion, that information would become a recom-
mendation to the board and require minutes.
Councilors Jake Boone and Amy Slay volun-
teered to meet with Fisher and bring back infor-
mation to the council with the city attorney re-
questing that the information be forwarded to the
city attorney's offi ce fi rst so that the offi ce could
compile the recommendation for the board.
While the two commissioner suggestion was
settled, the matter of evaluating the judge wasn't
as easily put to bed. Because of the nature of the
judge's position, the city does not currently have
a means by which to evaluate him. Meyers noted
that the city of Eugene recently released questions
for their employees in the legal fi eld as a way to
conduct an evaluation and the city may look to
those questions as a frame of reference.
Boone and Slay are set to discuss available
times to meet with Fisher for possible contract
modifi cations and the city attorney is scheduled to
compile a list of examples of other judicial evalu-
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