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e M I NUT E S Eugene City Council McNutt Room--City Hall September 16, 1991 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Roger Rutan, Shawn Boles, Ruth Bascom, Bobby Green, Paul Nicholson, Kaye Robinette, Randy MacDonald, Debra Ehrman. The adjourned meeting of September 11, 1991, of the Eugene City Council was called to order by His Honor Mayor Jeff Miller. I. EUGENE DECISIONS STRATEGIES Barbara Bellamy, City Manager's Office, provided the council with an update on the Eugene Decisions process and identified key dates in the next stage of the process. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct the first checkpoint in the Eugene Decisions process and to provide direction to staff on sample service and funding strategies to present to the public during the next round of citizen involvement. Ms. Bellamy said that at council's request, staff e has prepared six sample strategies: two reduction, two maintenance, and two expansion. In addition, Councilor Boles has also submitted a strategy for counc il rev i ew. She briefly reviewed the strategies. Mr. Boles explained that the intent of his strategy is to emphasize the li- brary, cultural arts/tourism, and affordable housing, which the council has identified as primary goals. In creating this strategy, he intended that funds for housing and cultural services would be invested and the interest payments would be used to sustain the programs indefinitely. He pointed out that the strategy only violates the sustainability criteria in that it does not address library overhead and maintenance costs or provide a sinking re- placement fund for replacement. Responding to a question from Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Boles said that it is his intent that the restaurant tax would have a mandatory sunset at the end of ten years unless it received an affirmative public vote to continue it. Ms. Bascom asked how the cost of central administration had been factored into the estimated costs of each service. In response, Tony Mounts, Finance Division, said that the central administration costs have been spread across each service category. Mr. Gleason emphasized that these are only broad estimates of the central administration costs for each program; the potential savings from closing a program would fall somewhere within this range. He cautioned the council that there may be some unforeseen financial consequenc- es to closing certain programs. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council September 16, 1991 Page 1 Dinner Meeting