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<br />M I N U T E S <br /> <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Work Session <br />McNutt Room – City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon <br /> <br /> January 9, 2008 <br /> Noon <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor, Betty Taylor, Bonny Bettman, George Poling, <br />Mike Clark, Alan Zelenka, Jennifer Solomon. <br /> <br /> <br />A. EXECUTIVE SESSION: <br /> <br />The City Council held an executive session pursuant to Oregon Revised Statutes 192.660(2)(a). <br /> <br />Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council into public session at 2:07 <br />p.m. <br /> <br /> <br />B. WORK SESSION: <br /> City Manager Recruitment <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka said the list of panelists was too long. He suggested that each councilor select three or four <br />people and then see if the panel “covered everyone.” <br /> <br />Mr. Zelenka, seconded by Mr. Clark, moved to have the City Councilors and Mayor each <br />select four panelists for the City Manager candidate interview panel. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy agreed that this was a reasonable number of people. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman objected. She did not come prepared for this. She believed this would just multiply council <br />majority influence on the panel. She had been willing to support having one person from each of the <br />organizations on the existing list with no overlap. <br /> <br />In response to a question from Ms. Taylor, Mr. Zelenka clarified that his motion would reduce the number <br />of panelists from 54 to 36. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor liked the idea of using the voting process. He did not think the process would work if they only <br />selected four people. He suggested that each councilor selected 20 from the list of organizations and then <br />the council would vote on them. He thought this would provide for the best representation. He added that <br />he did not know the people who served on the different organizations. <br /> <br />Mr. Pryor, seconded by Mr. Clark, moved to substitute a motion to direct each councilor to <br />select their top 20 out of the organizations and then the council would vote to determine the <br />top 30 out of that list. <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—Eugene City Council January 9, 2008 Page 1 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br />