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e Ms. Bascom said the council should review the issue of placing a CRT substation in the Whiteaker neighborhood. Ms. Schue said the council should vote on this issue. Mr. Boles pointed out that the City had not spent any money on the project. In response to earlier comments by Mr. Gleason, Mr. Bennett said it was healthy to hear that the council was accomplishing many of its goals. He said it would be helpful to get a report from DPS about whether the council had done enough toward the approval of the long-range plan. Mr. Boles suggested the council schedule extra Monday meetings to discuss DPS issues, such as redeployment of fire stations, CRT, and the long-range plan. Ms. Ehrman suggested it might be helpful if staff reported to the council on goal achievement within their departments. Mr. Gleason said this was acceptable to him, and Mr. Miller suggested Wednesday meetings be used for this purpose. Mr. Holmer said he did not want staff to give oral reports on written material. Mr. Rutan said it was helpful to have regular communication with staff on certain issues. Ms. Schue suggested staff ask the council for their questions and comments on written material. Mr. Rutan pointed out that all of the councilors read the material in their packets. e B. Economic Development Mr. Boles said this topic included special events and wetlands. Mr. Gleason said the goal should include the Industrial Lands Task Force. He said the council needed to develop a matrix between agendas, committees, and goals. Mr. Holmer said the Industrial lands Task Force should be segregated from the industrial lands wetlands issue. Mr. Gleason said staff had spent a great deal of time on these issues through the involvement of the Planning Commission and other City groups. He said the council could have helped staff avoid confusion about the focus of these studies by providing clearer direction. Mr. Bennett said he had lobbied strongly on behalf of an update of the Metro Plan, but this suggestion had not received the approval of a majority of County Commissioners. Ms. Schue pointed out that the City had to coordinate with Springfield and the County on the Metro Plan, and these two other bodies had not wanted to fund an update. She said the study of industrial lands was a compromise, and had evolved into the wetlands study. She said this process had created confusion. Ms. Bascom said the economic development issue was too huge to track. Mr. Green suggested the council have both short-term and long-term goals for economic development. Ms. Ehrman suggested several updates on each goal be presented at the council's quarterly meetings. Mr. Miller requested that the council prioritize its goals. Mr. Boles suggested several criteria for goal setting, including: 1) does the council have control over the issue; 2) can the goal be accomplished; 3) is there more than one primary objective in the goal . MINUTES--Eugene City Council Quarterly Process Session April 23, 1990 Page 4