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Councilor Ortiz, seconded by Councilor Pryor, moved to approve the items on the Consent Calendar. Councilor Bettman noted she had submitted minutes corrections earlier via e-mail. Mayor Piercy deemed them approved as submitted. She noted that Councilor Poling had submitted a correction as well, also deemed approved. Roll call vote; the motion to approve the Consent Calendar passed unanimously, 8:0. 3. PUBLIC FORUM AND ACTION: Candidate Profile for City Manager Recruitment Acting Assistant City Manager Scott Luell introduced the subject. He said if the council took action at the present meeting, staff would be able to put the candidate profile into the mail the next week and move the process along. Councilor Bettman reiterated her wish to delete the weather report from the document. She also asserted that there were three redundancies and listed them. Additionally, Councilor Bettman expressed concern that some candidates might not apply for the position if the interviews were not conducted in executive session, as their current employers would become aware of the interview. She had noticed that the County conducted two days of hiring completely in executive session. She wondered if the City could conduct its interviews in executive session. Executive Director of the Human Resources Division, Lauren Chouinard, responded that he thought the recruiter the City hired was adept at his job and would communicate to candidates when it reached the point at which they would come for interviews. He noted that the last recruitment had been kept “under wraps” until the City narrowed it to the last candidate, while Springfield had, in its most recent city manager hiring process, profiled the final five candidates in the city newspaper. Mayor Piercy stated that no one had signed up for the public forum. Councilor Bettman recalled that when the council originally looked at the document there had been two parts to it, one of which was the legal portion on which the contract would be based. She asked what part of the current document constituted the legal language that would ultimately translate into the contract itself. Mr. Chouinard stated that there was not much in the current document that would be legally binding and would be placed into the contract. City Attorney Jerry Lidz stated that, generally, if there were objective qualifications in the position description, the City would be locked into those qualifications. He averred that the City needed to set the qualifications carefully so it did not get a pool so wide that no one would be screened out; but they also did not want to set such strict qualifications that a leading candidate would not meet them. Councilor Bettman asked when the council would see the contract for the City Manager position. She wanted to know if it would be based on the criteria before them. Mr. Chouinard replied that he would look into it. MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 8, 2007 Page 4 Regular Meeting