More and more obvious to me that Eugene needs two things:
1) City Manager's question time, a twice monthly meeting that is televised and at which the city manager answers questions about his job and what is going on in the city, keeping the voters appraised of costly developments.
2) A binding resolution that forces the city to go to the voters for any capital projects over a certain amount, maybe $5 million dollars. 

The voters are paying the bills, and get to choose what projects they can afford. I was told that EWEB told the city that they would rent space for them at half what Lane County was charging and that offer was refused.
I now agree with Mike Clark, that the city should offer to buy the EWEB property and make that work. We all have had to abandon personal projects when they got too expensive, maybe the city should consider exactly that for the new city hall.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene