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BILL LIOIO:
SPRINGFIEL D CI T Y COUNCIL
Dark skies loom over
Patrician residents
SATURDAY, OCT. 12
Eugene/Springfi eld Tip a Cop, 11
a.m. to 9 p.m., Texas Roadhouse, 1060
Valley River Way, Eugene. Hosted by
Oregon Law Enforcement Torch Run
for Special Olympics and Springfi eld
Police Department.
Please Bother Me Class: Facebook
Messenger, 2 p.m., Springfi eld Public
Library, 225 Fifth St., Springfi eld.
Council leans
toward rezoning
BY VICTORIA STEPHENS
THE CHRONICLE
SUNDAY, OCT. 13
Walk to End Alzheimer’s, Alton
Baker Park, 100 Day Island Road,
Eugene. Registration at noon,
Ceremony at 1:30 p.m., Walk at 2 p.m.
MONDAY, OCT. 14
The Springfi eld City Council will
meet for its regularly scheduled work
session at 5:30 p.m. in the Jesse Maine
Room, Springfi eld City Hall, 225 Fifth
St., Springfield. HUD Consolidated
Planning Process, Abatement Warrants
will be discussed.
The
Springfield Economic
Development Agency (SEDA) will
meet for its regularly scheduled meet-
ing at approximately 7 p.m. in the Jesse
Maine Room, Springfi eld City Hall, 225
Fifth St., Springfi eld for a public hearing
and Supplemental Budget 1.
A Springfield School Board
Business meeting will be held
from 7 to 11 p.m. in the boardroom
of the Springfield Public Schools
Administration Building, 640 A Street,
Springfi eld.
TUESDAY, OCT. 15
Dorris Ranch Ribbon Cutting, 4:30
p.m. 205 Dorris St., Springfi eld.
The Springfi eld Planning Commission
will meet for its regularly scheduled
work session at 6 p.m. in the Jesse
Maine Room, Springfi eld City Hall, 225
Fifth St., Springfi eld.
The
S p r i n g f i e l d Pl a n n i n g
Commission will hold a Public Hearing
during the regular meeting starting
at 7 p.m. in the Council Chambers,
Springfield City Hall, 225 Fifth St.,
Springfi eld.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16
Open Climb, 6 p.m., Bob Reefer
Center, 250 S. 32nd St., Springfi eld.
“Thelma and Louise,” 1 p.m.,
Willamalane Adult Activity Center,
215 W. C St., Springfi eld (R, 1991, 129
minutes). Weekly free movie. Popcorn
50¢.
Papier mâché Alebrijes (colorful
Mexican folk art sculptures). Grades
1/2/3, 3:45 p.m., Springfield Public
Library, 225 Fifth St., Springfi eld.
The Springfield Governance
Committee will meet from 3 to 5 p.m.
in the Jesse Maine Room, Springfi eld
City Hall, 225 Fifth St., Springfi eld, to
discuss the Springfi eld Development
Code Update Project. The community
is welcome to attend.
Mossbacks short walk and club
meeting, 6 p.m., Willamalane Adult
Activities Center, 215 West C Street in
Springfi eld. http://www.mossbacks.org
THURSDAY, OCT. 17
Springfi lm, 6:30 p.m. Free showing
of Jordan Peele’s horror fi lm, “Get
Out” (R, 2017, 104 minutes). Watch
the fi lm and stay for a short post-fi lm
discussion. Wildish Community Theater,
630 Main St., Springfi eld. Additional
Information: Kristen Curé, 541-726-2232,
kcure@springfi eld-or.gov
Springfi eld Kiwanis meets each
Thursday at noon at Sparrow Café,
2080 19th St., Springfi eld.
Bill Lioio is a private investigator from Springfi eld. Lioio was a former
Eugene Police officer, and now investigates criminal cases and
miscellaneous civil cases. ALIYA HALL/ THE CRESWELL CHRONICLE
Springfi eld’s own
Magnum P.I.
BY ALIYA HALL
THE CHRONICLE
SPRINGFIELD – For the Oregon
Association of Licensed Investigators
(OALI) meeting happening on Nov. 2,
Springfi eld P.I. Bill Lioio has been asked
to give a talk; the title of his presentation:
“The Skeptical, Humble Investigator.”
“Skepticism is important,” he said. “You
need to know you weren’t there and you’re
relying on what the person is telling you.”
A former offi cer for the Eugene Police
from 1973 to ’77, Lioio has worked as a
private investigator in the area since the
mid-’80s. He is one of 208 investigators in
the state registered with OALI.
Although he has experience working for
juvenile court, most of his focus now is on
criminal defense cases and miscellaneous
civil cases. Over the years, he has helped
locate people who have an inheritance and
has been involved in investigating wrong-
ful death cases.
“I don’t try to import motives to people;
I can’t read minds,” he said. “So I don’t
understand why people do certain things,
but I can suspect.”
Lioio added that his background as
a police offi cer has been helpful in his
private investigations work – especially
in recognizing the quality, or lack thereof,
of police reports. He said that often the
reports are low-quality, which speaks to
the quality of the training offi cers receive.
“From a defense perspective, it’s not bad
because the more holes in the police report,
the more holes you can poke in their case,”
he said, adding that as an investigator he
sees this as a potential benefi t, but as a
taxpayer, he sees it another way.
Generally, Lioio is called in by attorneys
if there’s a case they want to involve him in.
There will be an initial meeting, where he
fi nds out what the case is about, and then
they establish a plan for what they want to
do. They’ll work together to evaluate the
strength of the State’s case, and look for
the problems and weaknesses. They’ll go
through the charging documents, which
Lioio said commonly “overcharge” the
client, and that’s where most plea deals
comes from.
“Sometimes it’s a ‘didindoit,’ where the
person says they didn’t do it, and that’s a
different angle,” he said. “The client will
tell us who we need to talk to to show it
wasn’t them, and I track them down.
Sometimes it helps, sometimes not.”
He added that frequently the contact
information given on the police reports
will be outdated by the time it gets to
him, which makes tracking people down
more of a challenge. He said that he has
SPRINGFIELD – Springfi eld City Council’s meeting
room was packed for the third reading of a controver-
sial proposed rezoning ordinance of the Patrician Mobile
Home Park Monday night.
In March, park owner Richard Boyles of Urban
Transitions LLC requested the 13.6 acres be rezoned from
a low density residential area to a mixed use commercial
area. The fi nal decision will be rendered at the Oct. 21
city council meeting, though council deliberation Monday
night leaned in favor of rezoning.
Public comment has been closed since Sept. 18, but
Patrician residents fi lled the chambers to get a glimpse of
what their future may hold. If the park is rezoned, the 130
primarily elderly and disabled residents of the park are
concerned that they will be displaced without reasonable
compensation for their homes and left with no place to go.
What it ultimately boils down to, despite the emotional
nature of this decision, councilor Sean VanGordon said, is
whether or not Boyles meets the criteria to have the park
property rezoned, not necessarily what the long term use
of the park is.
“I have to sit down and look at it from an objective point
of view – as much as it tears my heart out,” Councilor
Marilee Woodrow said. “I totally understand and empa-
thize with everything that is going on. But in the position
I’m in I have to look at, not only the impact of a decision
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‘Everything is a design decision’
Design awareness
colors her world
BY VICTORIA STEPHENS
THE CHRONICLE
SPRINGFIELD – With many irons in the fire,
Springfi eld architect Jenna Fribley goes beyond the stan-
dard defi nition of what an architect is and does.
She and Kelsey Buzzell are co-owners of Campfi re
Collaborative Architecture & Design, the company
responsible for about one third of the renovations in the
revitalized 300 block of Main Street in Springfi eld.
“We have a lot of projects,” Fribley said. “We do a little
bit of everything.”
Working from old photographs, Fribley restored rows
of transom windows along Main Street storefronts, adding
authenticity by recovering elements of the original designs.
Design is something that Fribley delights in. One build-
ing’s original porcelain tile was uncovered during the
remodeling process and was used as a design element
throughout the building, adding unity to that theme.
RESEARCHING AND FINDING THE SOUL
Campfi re Collaborative is located in a humble store-
front at 341 Main St. Fribley has researched its history as
Vern’s Lunch, a diner from the 1940s, to its conversion to
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