Butte debate continues;
council, EWEB set meet
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By RICHARD WAGONER
Of the Emerald
The controversy over the sale of Gillespie
Butte has turned into a full-scale reappraisal of
the relationship between the Eugene City Council
and the Eugene Water and Electric Board.
And to help solve the problem, the council
and EWEB will meet in the next two weeks to
discuss the working relationship between the two
government bodies.
Meanwhile, the city council voted Wednes
day to allow EWEB to sell Gillespie Butte at market
value for private development. The city orginally
wanted to purchase the five-acre butte for a
possible park.
But that sale may be stalled again. City
councilors learned Wednesday that a group
working to preserve the butte as a park is now
circulating a petition to put the question of the
butte’s use on the ballot.
The Gillespie Butte controversy erupted
months ago when EWEB decided it no longer
needed the parcel of land. EWEB purchased it in
1952 for a reservoir that was never built.
The utility said last year it needed to sell the
land at "fair market value" — about $500,000 — to
bail itself out of a growing cash-flow problem.
The city wanted to purchase the butte for a
park, but officials agreed it could not afford
EWEB’s price. The two public bodies exchanged
offers and counter-offers for weeks, but no
agreement could be reached.
The council has dropped its efforts to pur
chase the butte, but now it is calling for clarifica
tion of which government body has authority to
sell public-owned land.
Council members are considering an ordin
ance that would affirm their exclusive right to sell
property held by EWEB, but only upon EWEB's
recommendation. A public hearing on the ordin
ance will held at the council’s April 27 meeting at
7:30 p.m.
EWEB representatives attending Wednes
day's meeting had no quarrel with the proposed
ordinance, but EWEB board president John Tif
fany urqed the council to allow the sale of the
butte.
"Our cash-flow position hasn't changed
any," Tiffany said. “It hasn’t gotten any better
and, in fact, it gets worse every day. We’d like to
go ahead and find a buyer."
Council members authorized EWEB to sell
the land, but urged the board members to delay
selling the butte until a petition drive by park
proposal supporters succeeds or fails.
In other business, the council contracted
with the Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority for
a study of downtown-area air quality.
The city received an $18,500 federal grant to
help fund the study, which will be used in making
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