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~ In response to a question from Mr. Holmer, Mr. Bennett said he would prefer that the council as a whole be involved with the performance audit. Mayor Miller summarized that the council wished to delete the Audit Committee and focus on the performance audit as a whole group. B. Boundary Commission Mr. Green said he had attended one Boundary Commission said if legal requirements allowed, the council should ship on this commission from three persons to one. In from Mr. Gleason, Mr. Boles said that if there were no council should not be represented on this commission. committee work increased the work load for councilors ed the council eliminate any committee work possible. meeting. Mr. Rutan decrease its member- response to a question legal requirement, the Mr. Rutan said council and staff, and suggest- C. Budget Committee Mr. Rutan said the Mayor should be a member of the Budget Committee. Ms. Bascom said it weakened the role of the Mayor for him not to be on this committee. Mayor Miller suggested statutory requirements for the committee be investigated. He said that if the Mayor were required to attend these meetings he should have a role on the committee. D. Citizen Involvement Committee e Mr. Bennett said the Committee on Committees felt that the Citizen Involve- ment Committee (CIC) was important to a community as diverse as Eugene. He suggested the City Council take a more active role in setting agendas for this committee, and be updated on its activities more often. He said the CIC's "Effective Citizen Involvement in Site Developmentll recommendation, on public-private partnerships at the City, was very important in terms of such projects as the Riverfront Research Park, but that the committee's recommen- dation would not work. He said the councilor on this committee should be careful how this kind of proposal was processed by the council. Mr. Boles said he was not sure if councilors could have been more up-to-date with this recommendation, except by attending eIC meetings. Mr. Bennett asked whether the CIC should find new ways for citizens to be publicly involved, or if its purpose was to delineate traditional methods of citizen involvement. Mr. Boles pointed out that the crc work plan could be approved or disapproved by the City Council. In response to a question from Ms. Bascom, Ms. Schue said the CIC had been created because of Senate Bill 100. She said land use planning legislation required that every city have a citizen involvement committee, although some cities had incorporated the committee into their planning commissions. She e MINUTES--Eugene City Council Monthly Process Session May 29, 1990 Page 2