Council puts off decision on homeless campsite
By Daralyn Trappe
Emerakt Associate Editor
The Eugene City Council de
i ided at a Monday work ses
sion to postpone for more than
two week# a dm ision on a pro
posed temporary campsite for
the homeless
The time is needed for the
c ity manager'# offiie to prepare
a report on. among other
things, the legal implications
for the i ity for such a site, i its
manager Mike Gleason told the
council.
The Human Eights Commis
sion. whi! h conceived of the
campsite plan, gave its formal
presentation to the council
Monday
In addition, i mined member#
received o letter Monday from
the hoard of director# of the
Willamette Science A Technol
ogy Center expressing its con
cern about the proposed i amp
site.
After i onsidermg several oth
er possibilities, the commission
settled on an area in the Alton
Baker Park parking lot adjacent
to WISTKC
The site would allow for as
many as 25 vehicles, for people
who wan! to ^ amp in th»*tr t ars,
and tip to five tents It is illegal
to amp in < ors in Eugene, so
the campsite would lie nn ex
empt area
The cost is estimated hy the
comin i ss ion at bet ween
$10,000 and $15,000. most of
which would go to a camp
manager. Portable toilets would
he set up, and campers would
sign a statement saying they
agree to camp rules
Councilwoman Barlwra Kel
ler emphasized that time is of
the essence, and at one point
seemed to be pushing for an
immediate decision.
"I'd hate to see a winter
campsite open at Easter." Kel
ler said "I understand that we
need to be thoughtful, but we ll
never have all the information
about what the repercussions
may tec"
However, the other
count dors went mom hesitant
Councilman Bobby Green said
the council was not in a posi
tion to make a decision Mon
day.
"Clearly, someone needs to
take the lead with this, but if
we do so. we must act responsi
bly,” Green said
Council members addressed
concerns to the commission, in
( Itiding questions of who will
manage the camp and how to
assure that local citizens use
the site. The commission meets
tonight to hammer out those
details and address WISTEC's
complaints
The letter from WESTEC said
a homeless camp may prove to
be "inconsistent and possibly
detrimental to" the center's
purpose of providing educa
tional activities for children
and families.
"Wc are dependent on ad
missions to stay viable," the
letter said. "We fear that these
admissions will be significantly
affected if the public has con
cerns alMHil the safety of their
children around WISTEC."
The board requested, among
other things, assurances that
WISTEC will not I* harmed fi
nancially.
The City Council decided
that the report and a public
hearing are vital, Gleason said
the report will be ready by Feb
5 A public hearing is set for
Feb. 8. and the council will dis
cuss the plan and possibly vote
at a Feh 10 meeting.
Hamburger bacteria may spread
SEATTLE (AP) - Some
children who fell ill lifter eat
ing hamburgers at a i ham of
fast-food restaurants may la1
unknowingly passing the
bacterial inflation to others.
Washington state health offii nils said Monday.
At least 200 people, most ill them i hildren, are
believed to have been sickened by the E. i oli out
break. believed to lie one of the notion's worst
One child has died
Health officials hlamc the outbreak on a con
taminated meat supply and unden ookmg of ham
burgers at lack in the Bos restaurants in Washing
ton and Boise. Idaho.
As of Monday, there were 151 confirmed cases
and about 50 suspected cases, said Hr |ohn
Kohayashi. the state's chief epidemiologist
The state Deportment of Health urged that
young c hildren suffering from illnesses related to
the outbreak of K. eoli 0157.H7 not return to day
care centers until their doctors am certain they
on> no longer carrying the bacteria.
Although the typical symptoms of bloody diar
rhea and severe stomach i rumps may vanish after
a few days, the linctorio ran remain in the body
for several weeks. Kohayashi said
The overwhelming majority of the 117 victims
interviewed to date reported they had eaten at a
lack in the Bo*. Kohayashi said.
A 2-vear-old Tacoma boy who ate a tainted
cheeseburger |nn It has died and more than u
dozen children remained hospitalized Monday,
including a 9-year-old girl in critical condition at
Children's Hospital and Medical Center in Seat
tle.
Some children who ate at a Jock in the Bo*
might lie passing the bacterium to others from fe
cal contamination on the hands, officials said.
Younger children in diapers, particularly in
crowded settings such as day i are centers, are
much more likely to do this than children of
school age. Kohayashi said
The Health Department advised parents and
day-care workers to wash their hands thoroughly
after ( hanging diapers or using the restroom and
before handling food.
"If a day-care employee change* (an infected)
child's diapers and doesn't wash his hands thor
oughly and then touches food, he could pass it
on." Health Department spokesman Doan Owen
said
Health officials weren't sure whether there
have been such < uses of sis ondary transmission.
lack in the Box on Monday took out full-page
advertisements in Seattle's two daily newspapers
expressing its "sadness over this horrible inci
dent " In the ad. Chairman lack Coodall said the
company is confident all the contaminated meat
bus been tracked and replaced. He said new bur
gers an- being c ooked longer and Jm k in the Box
food is safe to eat
The Von* Cos. of Arcadia. Calif., which pro
i essed raw meat into frozen patties for lack in the
Box. said it got ttie !>eef in question from three
suppliers: Service Packing of law. Angeles. Or
leans International of Detroit and Monfort Beef of
Greeley. Colo. Those companies in turn may have
gotten the beef from several slaughterhouses
Investigators with the federal Centers for Dis
ease Control and the U.S Department of Agricul
ture were focusing on 1.1 slaughterhouses or
slaughterhouse-processing plants, said Jim
Greene, a spokesman for the USDA's Food Safety
and Inspection Service.
Those fat ilities "more than likely" supplied the
meat processed at Vons, Greene said. "We're go
ing to double-check sanitation conditions at those
plants."
Greene did not know the names or locations of
the facilities
"It'll take days or weeks to t ome up with some
sound conclusions." he said. "It involves a lot of
detective work, starting from /. and working back
to A "
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Me said the OCA proposed
adoption of the new wording
because the organization be
lieves the improved wording
would better serve the citizens
of Springfield.
The council has declined the
offer. As a result, the OCA will
launch an initiative campaign
to amend 20-08 to align it with
the othor 22 measures.
Allwander said uniform
adoption of the revised meas
ure in all 33 targeted communi
ties would streamline the
OCA's efforts and leave less
room for lawsuits.
“1 cannot understand why
the ACLU would be so mean
spirited and pick on poor little
old Springfield when they
could pick on Hillsboro or any
of the others." Allwander said
Allwander would not offi
cially acknowledge whether the
OCA will provide assistance to
the city of Springfield in the
ACLU's lawsuit, but he did say
"there's been talk" of the or
ganization doing so.
Allwander said the OCA is
confident the suit will be de
feated. He sard he believes the
amendment is very defensible
as well as representative of a
majority of Springfield citizens.
“Three times the citizens (of
Springfield) have spoken on
this issue," Allwander said.
"Everybody knows where the
city of Springfield stands on
this issue."
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