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e chooses will be tailored to fit Eugene's specific needs for public involve- ment. Mr. Creighton described three possible design approaches for this process and highlighted the benefits and drawbacks of each. The Levels of Service Ap- proach is much like a home budget in which the council asks the community to make decisions about the level or amount of each service it wants the City to provide. This approach is beneficial in that it forces trade-offs; however, it also requires heavy staff involvement and it is often difficult to define the levels of service. Mr. Creighton said that the second approach, the Goals Approach, begins with a vision about what kind of community Eugene citizens want. It asks the community to agree on goals and objectives for the future and then ensures that City programs are tailored to achieve those objectives. This approach has worked well for many cities and involves a broad sector of the community; a drawback to this approach is that it is often difficult to get from goals to action. e Mr. Creighton said that the final approach, the Strategic Planning Approach, allows the City to generate and compare a list of alternative strategies for how the City could resolve its strategic issues. And, through an extensive public process, asks the community to chose the best alternative. This type of approach encourages the community to deal with the "whole" problem and discourages it from adopting piecemeal solutions to the problem. Mr. Creighton emphasized that any three of the solutions could work for Eu- gene and encouraged the council to select the most appropriate alternative for this community. Mr. Creighton provided an overview of the levels of public involvement which could be used in any of these processes. Types of possible public involve- ment include: public workshops, polls/focus groups, neighborhood advisory groups, newspaper inserts/mail-in coupons, discussion groups, and advisory votes. Ms. Bellamy walked through the proposed guidelines for the strategic planning process and reviewed the following process outcomes: 1. Service level and financing decisions about services at risk due to insufficient funding. 2. Broad public/support for those decisions. Mr. Rutan voiced concern with the phrase "services at risk" in the first outcome, indicating that use of this phrase might narrow or provoke unwanted community debate about what services are really at risk. Mr. Boles agreed. Ms. Bellamy noted that the phrase "services at risk" was included to contrast those services in which revenues are not sufficient to support service goals, such as those supported by the General Fund and the Room Tax Fund, from those services which have adequate revenue streams, such as the Airport Fund. e MINUTES--Eugene City Council Strategic Planning Process March 2, 1991 Page 2