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COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES JULY 9 2012 he has a hard time with the intersection at the Young Street and 99 area and if it wasn t for that he would vote yes on it but as long as it is that way he will vote nay Mayor Figley thanked those that worked on the plan and stated that she was in support of it Cox McCallum approve the recommendation of staff and the Planning Commission and direct staff to present the necessary changes and new ordinances that will be required to implement it After a roll call vote the motion passed 51 with Councilor Schmidt voting Nay 1 06 CITY ADMINISTRATOR S REPORT The City Administrator had nothing to report 1 06 MAYOR AND COUNCIL REPORTS Councilor Schmidt stated that it would be nice if somebody could spend a half a day cleaning out the flower beds on Front Street 1 07 Mayor Figley entertained a motion to adjourn into executive session under the authority of to ORS 192 660 2 d Pugh Lonergan adjourn to executive session under the statutory authority cited by the Mayor The motion passed unanimously The Council adjourned to executive session at 8 07 pm and reconvened at 8 42 pm Mayor Figley stated that no action was taken by the Council while in executive session 1 42 ADJOURNMENT Before adjournment of the meeting Councilor Pugh wanted to bring it to the attention of other Council members that houses owned by banks have a problem with overgrown grass and they need to have the banks obey the law Councilor McCallum stated that was one of the legislative goals last year unfortunately the legislator did not take action Councilor Cox stated that we have a right to enforce our ordinance and take care of it then file a lien against the property which is a lot of work Chief Russell stated that there is a new game in town where no one owns the property Code enforcement contacts the County Assessor s office to find the owner and that owner is gone and the bank ofrecord says they dont own it Chief Russell states that they try to mow the most egregious properties but if they tried to mow all of them they could easily wipe out the discretionary budget Councilor Pugh says that the banks aren t taking care of the homes that are under foreclosure Councilor Cox added that they are deteriorating on the inside as well as the outside McCallumCox meeting be adjourned The motion passed unanimously The meeting adjourned at 8 50 p m Page 3 Council Meeting Minutes July 9 2012