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e M I NUT E S Eugene City Council McNutt Room--Eugene City Hall November 19, 1990 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Emily Schue, Roger Rutan, Ruth Bascom, Shawn Boles, Debra Ehrman, Bobby Green, Paul Nicholson, Kaye Robinette. The regular Eugene City Council meeting was called to order by His Honor Mayor Jeff Miller. I. WORK SESSION: STRATEGIC PLANNING PROCESS Mr. Gleason said he had four goals to ask the council to achieve at the meeting: 1) agreement to reprioritize and reorganize the council's goals and work plan; 2) adoption of a budget strategy for FY91-92; 3) adoption of a strategic plan proposal; and 4) agreement to conduct a performance audits. e Mr. Gleason said the purpose of the strategies proposed by staff was to buy the council the time necessary to engage the community in a conversation regarding the level of City services and revenues. He stressed that unless the council was able to make decisions in a timely manner, it would find itself in an argument rather than a dialogue with the community. Mr. Gleason cautioned the council against moving too quickly on the design of the strategic planning effort. He said the council had time to do the process correctly. However, he noted that the organization lacked the internal resources to complete the details of the design. Staff had prepared a preliminary broad process outline for the council to review. Mr. Gleason recommended that the council take time to secure the necessary external expertise in the design process. Mr. Gleason said the basic strategy developed by staff was to buy time and was divided into two directions. One direction linked the Ballot Measure 5 Response Program and the strategic planning process together into a strategy to build cornmunity consensus. That strategy would entail asking the community the question, "What do you want the organization to look like? What services do you want? What levels of service? What revenues will pay for that service?" Mr. Gleason said an internal task team headed by Barb Bellamy will support that effort. He said the second direction had an external focus in the Legislative Program. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council November 19, 1990 Page 1