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ATTACHMENT A May 16, 2006 TO: Mayor Piercy and City Council FROM: Judicial Evaluation Committee SUBJECT: 2006 Municipal Court Judicial Evaluation This memo with attachments is our report to you on the 2006 formal performance evaluation of Eugene Municipal Court Presiding Judge Wayne Allen. OUR CHARGE The process for selecting and evaluating a presiding municipal court judge is governed by Eugene City Code Section 2.011(9) and (10), which the City Council adopted in June 1996. The City Council selects a presiding municipal judge to serve a four-year term. During each term there are three levels of evaluation: 1. A self-evaluation, submitted to the city council; 2. An informal evaluation, including peer feedback, submitted to the city council after two years; and 3. Aformal evaluation conducted by an advisory evaluation committee during the fourth year of the term. Wayne Allen was appointed presiding municipal court judge in 1994. In January 2006 the City Council appointed the six-member evaluation committee to carry out the formal performance evaluation for Judge Allen's current term. City Code requires the formal evaluation committee to be composed of "not less than five persons, including at least one member of the human rights commission, two attorneys familiar with the municipal court, and two other persons generally familiar with the judicial system." Our backgrounds and qualifications for the evaluation committee are as follows: 1. The Honorable Mary Ann Bearden: Lane County Circuit Court Judge; 2. Don Diment: Private defense attorney who regularly practices in Eugene municipal court; 3. Greg Hazarabedian: Executive Director of Lane County Public Defender Services; 4. John Kilcullen: Private defense attorney who recently worked as an assistant Eugene municipal court judge; 5. The Honorable Kip Leonard: Lane County Circuit Court Judge; and 6. Carmen Urbina: Current chair of the City's Human Rights Commission. EVALUATION PROCESS The evaluation process began in January 2006, when the City Council appointed the evaluation committee. We first met as a committee on February 1,2006. Initially the committee reviewed the evaluation process and report from 2002 and adopt a process for the 2006 evaluation, since the Eugene Code states only that the formal evaluation will include a public hearing. The public hearing will be conducted the evening of the work session at which this report will be presented to you.