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Eugene City Council Retreat February 25-26, 2005 + · Balance budget with some reserves Unfunded O&M in several areas - street maintenance, parks, recreation, etc. Staff has done well on finding operational Pavement preservation efficiencies in many areas Has used new and creative ways for Street preservation funds still inadequate funding sources People who can need to be willing to pay Limited resources for services A little progress regarding road City doesn't live within it's means - always maintenance revenue seeking revenue growth - priorities are skewed Very substantial imbalance between available resources and service demands Concern that the tax and fee well is not bottomless We keep postponing the inevitable talk of tax reform or big cuts Failure to find new sources of revenue Limited progress on a long term alternative funding source Unable to develop long-term ongoing and stable funding sources Next Steps · Solicit statements from Council for vision statement (inspirational ideas) · Consider and be prepared to discuss triple filter concept · Kitty, Andrea, Jennifer & Chris will come back at a process session with new ideas to consider · Need agreement on how organization will use/apply the vision · Outcome focus and measurement Issues and Priorities Each member of the governing body identified the priority issues they wished the governing body to consider as priority issues for the coming year. After all ideas were generated, there was an opportunity to take certain items off the table by placing a "veto" dot on the item - any item that received three or more "no's" was removed from consideration in the ensuing priority discussion The complete list of all items generated is provided at the end of this document as Attachment A. Management Partners,/nc. 8