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<br />e <br /> <br />Fleet Fund would be reimbursed from the unspent carry-over. She said there <br />was an arrangement to borrow money from the Fleet Fund, but not to take it <br />permanently. <br /> <br />Mr. Miller said he made a specific motion at that Budget Committee meeting <br />and said the reason he was voting against the proposed budget was because the <br />money was slated to come from the Fleet Fund. He said that motion did not <br />pass. <br /> <br />Mr. Bennett asked if Ms. Schue is saying that the Budget Committee has made <br />its final recommendation and that the council needs to accept it. Ms. Schue <br />said that is her position. However, she said she would like the record to <br />accurately reflect what the Budget Committee did. <br /> <br />Ms. Wooten said there has been frustration about the entire budget process <br />among many of the councilors. She said the council was apparently not in <br />agreement about the budget priority-setting meeting when it started the <br />formal budget process. She said all councilors have a responsibility to cut <br />the budget, although they have different philosophies about what should be <br />cut. She said she is committed to not dOing one-time cuts to protect certain <br />programs during a six-year financial planning process. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />As the budget process progressed, Ms. Wooten said that the council was not <br />talking to each other about the process and what differences existed, and <br />there was a push from some members of the council to make sure there would be <br />no new revenues. As a result of this, there was an effort to place the <br />budget under a different status. She said she has received a number of <br />questions from the public and the press about what is happening. <br /> <br />Mr. Rutan said the issue has been blown out of proportion. He said there has <br />not been an effort on his part or other councilors to maneuver something <br />through. He said he agrees with Ms. Wooten that councilors came out of the <br />six-year financial planning process without a clear understanding of what <br />they had done. <br /> <br />Starting with the six-year planning process, Mr. Rutan said the council <br />experienced a number of things that were different from the past. He said <br />the subsequent situation has caused him to not want to rubber-stamp what the <br />Budget Committee has done. <br /> <br />Mr. Bennett said he is one of those who was very frustrated with the process. <br />He said the council appeared to reach a reasonable consensus at the end of <br />the financial planning process. He said Ms. Wooten, at that time, said she <br />was not satisfied with the process. However, he said he did not hear that <br />from other councilors. He said the message he received from the process was <br />that all councilors recognized they were facing a crisis situation. Wh~n it <br />came time for the budget process, he said the council caved in and forgot <br />what it had discussed during the six-year planning process. Not only did the <br />council not honor the process, he said the City is now in worse financial <br />shape today than when it started. <br /> <br />e <br /> <br />MINUTES--Eugene City Council <br /> <br />June 6, 1988 <br /> <br />Page 2 <br />