Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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Ms. Bettman asked for clarification for the distinction between bias and conflict. Ms. Jerome said there were statutes about conflict of interest; bias was the subject of case law and not statutory. Ms. Bettman asked if having worked for one of the facilities 18 years ago was a conflict. Ms. Jerome said she was confident that would not be a conflict or bias, but the information could be included in Ms. Bettman’s written statement. Mayor Piercy stated that on the day McKenzie-Willamette announced its decision to locate on the subject property she attended a press conference and spoke in support of having a hospital in Eugene. Ms. Hansen said the record was voluminous and would be available to the council, along with the Planning Commission’s recommendations and a memorandum from staff, at least three weeks before the public hearing. She said there would be one paper copy in the City Council office and each councilor would have an electronic copy. She said that new evidence and testimony would be received at the hearing and there was likely to be a request to leave the record only; staff would provide options for addressing that request. She asked that staff be informed about any new information the council felt would be helpful so that could be provided while the record was still open. She said the public hearing format would allow the applicant and the organized opposition a block of time for their testimony instead of allocating three minutes for each individual. Mr. Clark asked if it was possible for councilors to have access to any claims of bias that had been made in order to respond. Ms. Jerome said that the claims had been identified in an August 9, 2007, memorandum; but if councilors wanted to see the actual content the record was available for review. C. WORK SESSION: City Manager Recruitment Process Ms. Jones introduced Alana Holmes, Human Resources, to provide an update on the city manager recruitment process. Ms. Holmes said she had discussed the recruitment process timeline with Robert Neher of Bennett Yarger and he provided the following estimated schedule: ? ten working days from completion of input to create a recruitment brochure and open recruitment nationwide ? 30 to 45 days to conduct a national search ? two weeks following close of recruitment to screen applicants and discuss the top candidates with the council ? two additional weeks to schedule interviews with candidates based on council direction ? two weeks to conduct background checks on finalists Mayor Piercy listed meetings related to the recruitment on September 12, 17, 18 and 24. Ms. Ortiz said she would be out of town on September 24, but hoped she could participate by telephone. Ms. Solomon noted that discussion of the city manager recruitment had replaced a scheduled process session. She questioned whether 2.5 hours were required for that discussion. Ms. Holmes replied that Mr. Neher had a number of topics to discuss, including the strategic approach to take on the search, identifica- MINUTES—Eugene City Council September 10, 2007 Page 5 Work Session