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<br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />M I NUT E S <br /> <br />Eugene City Council <br />Jacobs Room--Hult Center <br /> <br />February 1, 1988 <br />4 p.m. <br /> <br />COUNCILORS PRESENT: Freeman Holmer, Ruth Bascom, Robert Bennett, Debra <br />Ehrman, Jeff Miller, Roger Rutan, Emily Schue, <br />Cynthia Wooten. <br /> <br />The adjourned meeting of the Eugene City Council of January 27, 1988, was <br />called to order by His Honor Mayor Brian B. Obie. <br /> <br />I. WORK SESSION: STRATEGIC FINANCIAL PLAN <br /> <br />A. Introduction <br /> <br />Mayor Obie welcomed Budget Committee lay members Katherine Eaton, Joan <br />Rich, Shawn Boles, Kay Robinhold, Don McLoud, John Rodda, and R. Kim <br />Short. <br /> <br />City Manager Micheal Gleason introduced the item. He said councilors had <br />received a summation of work from the previous goal session and had asked <br />for impact statements to affected programs from staff. Mr. Gleason said <br />the proposed Strategic Financial Plan would achieve about 75 percent of <br />the financial target for the first year and would result in a positive <br />cash balance one year earlier than previously expected. He said Finance <br />Director Warren Wong would describe the timing and sequence of the <br />proposal, which was based on the rankings developed by the City Council <br />at the November 3, 1987, goal session. <br /> <br />B. Budget Committee Lay Member Comments <br /> <br />Katherine Eaton noted that councilors had received a memo dated <br />January 27, 1988, from Budget Committee lay members. She said members <br />had discussed all alternatives, including program cuts, new revenues, and <br />one-time adjustments. Lay members had not favored one-time adjustments <br />as a means of balancing the budget, with fleet replacement funding being <br />the only possibility favored for consideration. Ms. Eaton said members <br />had discussed the full range of ways to balance cuts and new revenues, <br />they did not favor increasing property taxes, and they had favored a <br />restaurant tax of up to 5 percent as the most appropriate new revenue. <br />She also reported that lay members had voted for rankings of City <br />programs, and seven areas of difference between lay members and the <br />council were described in the memo. <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council <br /> <br />February 1, 1988 <br /> <br />Page 1 <br />