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MINUTES <br />Eugene City Council <br />Work Session <br />McNutt Room — City Hall <br />777 Pearl Street Eugene, Oregon <br />November 18, 2009 <br />12:00 p.m. <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Chris Pryor, Mike Clark, George Brown, Andrea Ortiz, Alan Zelenka, Betty <br />Taylor, Jennifer Solomon <br />COUNCILORS ABSENT: George Poling <br />Mr. Zelenka called the work session meeting to order at 12:00 p.m. and noted that Mayor Ditty Piercy and City <br />Manager Jon Ruiz had conflicts and would not be in attendance. <br />Assistant City Manager Sarah Medary noted that the Building our Next Economy. A Regional Prosperity Summit <br />event would take place on November 19, 2009, at 7:30 a.m, at the Eugene Hilton and would include a keynote <br />address by University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere. She encouraged the council members to attend and <br />believed the event would be very successful. <br />Ms. Medary briefly commented on the agenda items for the meeting and hoped that the discussion would be <br />grounded according to the council goals that had been established at the council's goal- setting workshop in <br />February. She further noted that the council goals had been used to help launch the recent Eugene Counts initiative <br />to help gauge and analyze community priorities with respect to local economic development. Ms. Medary also <br />noted that staff would be presenting the initial information on the Eugene Counts initiative to the council on <br />December 14, and that potential strategies related to the initiative would be rolled out in January after the council <br />break. <br />Ms. Medary commented that the Eugene Counts report would be presented to the council in a format different than <br />the regular quarterly reports that had been presented regarding community priorities. Mr. Zelenka asked for further <br />details regarding the new format. Ms. Medary responded that the specific parameters of the format were still being <br />formed but that it was likely to be a combination of a City publication and various online resources. <br />A. WORK SESSION: Equity and Human Rights Update <br />Equity and Human Rights Manager Raquel Wells acknowledged the presence of several of her colleagues who had <br />attended the meeting to show their support, including Ken Neubeck, Holly LeMasurier, Shawna Adams, Ibrahim <br />Hamide, Linda Hamilton, Angela Soyazono, Doug Mozan and several others. Ms. Wells further noted that <br />Councilor George Brown also served on the Human Rights Commission (HRC) as Council Liaison. <br />Mr. Brown noted that he had attended the HRC meeting the previous evening and they had welcomed the new <br />members to the commission. <br />Ms. wells presented an update on the City's equity and human rights efforts including information on the HRC and <br />its Diversity and Equity Strategic Plan. <br />MINUTES Eugene City Council November 18, 2049 Page 1 <br />Work Session <br />