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e M I NUT E S Eugene City Council O'Neil Room--Eugene Hilton August 10, 1992 6:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Ruth Bascom, Shawn Boles, Debra Ehrman, Bobby Green, Randy MacDonald, Paul Nicholson, Kaye Robinette, Roger Rutan. LEGISLATORS PRESENT: Representative Jim Edmunson, D-District 39; Representa- tive Carl Hosticka, D-District 40; Representative Marie Bell, R-District 41. The regular meeting of the Eugene City Council of August 10, 1992, was called to order by His Honor Mayor Jeff Miller. 1. EUGENE DECISIONS WORK SESSION WITH EUGENE AREA LEGISLATORS Those present introduced themselves. e Mayor Miller said that the meeting was being held for the purpose of sharing information on the process and progress of Eugene Decisions. Input from 1 oca 1 area legislators is being solicited before the council begins deliberating in the final round of the Eugene Decisions process to produce a community- supported, sustainable, multi-year service and funding strategy. Mr. Boles noted that intergovernmental coordination/cooperation has been one of the major themes supported by the public in the Eugene Decisions process. Mr. Robinette described how the Eugene Decisions process began, saying that the council decided right away that community involvement would be critical in addressing a long-term solution to the financial impact of Ballot Measure 5. Thus, the City Council initiated the process, and the City hired University of Oregon (U of 0) Professor Ed Weeks to assist in the process and develop the community involvement tools which would be used in the public input components of the process. He said the $350,000 effort, representing half of one percent of the City's annual General Fund budget, will be well spent if it results in the council adoption of a community-supported, sustainable, multi-year funding and service package. Mr. Weeks provided an overview of the executive summary of the "Eugene Decisions--Results of Citizen Input, Summer 1992" document. He highlighted the 70-30 percent correlation indicating that most respondents to the "Budget- Balancing" random survey and the tabloid questionnaires received favored a budget-balancing strategy that includes both service changes (30 percent) and e MINUTES--Eugene City Council August 10, 1992 Page 1 6:30 p.m.