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M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room—Eugene City Hall April 26, 2006 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: Jennifer Solomon, Andrea Ortiz, Bonny Bettman, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Gary Papé, George Poling, Andrea Ortiz, Chris Pryor. A. WORK SESSION: City Hall Complex Strategic Issues Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. The council was joined for the item by Thomas Hacker, Jonah Cohen, and Dana Ing Crawford of Thomas Hacker Architects; Ellen Teninty of T’N T Consultants; Doug Macy and Ken Pirie of Walker Macy; Dave Wilson and Rick Rehfeldt of McClaren, Wilson & Lawrie; and Kyle Brown of J. D. White Company. Police Chief Robert Lehner, and Glen Svendsen and Mike Penwell of the Facilities Division were also present. Ms. Crawford reviewed the agenda for the meeting. She indicated one deviation from the action proposed in the Agenda Item Summary (AIS), which was that the council delay action on the staff-recommended motion related to space needs until the council meeting of May 10. That would allow for more discussion of the consolidation option. Ms. Teninty facilitated the workshop portion of the meeting. Mr. Papé arrived. Mr. Hacker expressed enthusiasm for the project, saying he believed the City of Eugene had an extraordi- nary opportunity to revitalize City Hall. He said the project was quite complex, and could be implemented using many different approaches. Those different approaches presented challenges. Mr. Hacker said the public indicated a desire to see the council unified in support of the project. To reach that consensus, he proposed some changes in the process. First, staff would not be asking the council to take action on the space needs issue today. He recommended that at this time, the council narrow the police consolidation options to two or three, which would allow the project team to put together better information on the remaining options. Mr. Hacker asked the councilors to make themselves more available as individuals to the project team so the team could create criteria and be better prepared for the upcoming work shops with the council. Ms. Teninty recalled that some councilors indicated hesitation about meeting individually with the project team. Ms. Bettman said that councilors were elected officials who needed to express their preferences in public. She criticized the way the information from the first round of council interviews was processed, saying it represented a form of quasi-balloting. She said that given the importance of the process, the community MINUTES—Eugene City Council April 26, 2006 Page 1 Work Session