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. e e In response to a question from Ms. Bascom, Mr. Mounts said staff was assuming that council would reconvene in early July to evaluate preliminary strategies which would go to the Community Leaders the last week in July. He said a community workshop could be held in early October. In response to a question from Ms. Ehrman, Mr. Mounts said staff planned to eliminate the public workshop in July, although the Community Leaders Work- shop would be held in July. Mr. Gleason added that an expanded group of 60 Community Leaders would replace the public workshop. Mayor Miller pointed out that a public workshop could still be held in July if it were scheduled close to the time of the Community Leaders Workshop. Mr. MacDonald said he would like to hold both an expanded Community Leaders Workshop and a large public workshop to avoid the perception that the public was being excluded. Mr. Boles said the council officers had discussed broadening community par- ticipation as the range of options for Eugene Decisions became clearer and smaller. He said the officers did not feel that the community needed to be involved in identifying guiding premises or preliminary strategies. Mr. Robinette added that he felt the general public would not understand the steps in the process until it reached the point of evaluating premises and preliminary strategies. Mr. MacDonald said a second public workshop, on premises and strategies, seemed unnecessary because it was followed closely by a public hearing. Mr. Gleason said the council officers had convinced him that a second public workshop would be useful because it would involve a smaller group of people than the public hearing and would allow staff to test the public's under- standing of the language used to explain premises and strategies. Mr. MacDonald said he was concerned about the public's perception of the process. He suggested that the Community Leaders should evaluate not only preliminary strategies, but also premises. Mr. Boles said the Community Leaders should be involved in identifying guid- ing premises and preliminary strategies, whereas participants in public work- shops should identify guiding premises and evaluate premises and preliminary strategies. Mr. MacDonald questioned how much influence the public would have in evaluat- ing premises after staff time had already been taken to prepare these premis- es. Mayor Miller said it was important that the community feel well-repre- sented by the Community Leaders and that this group be in consensus. Mr. Rutan said the average person would not be well-versed on the issues involved in identifying premises. He said the idea of a large open public forum to identify premises seemed reasonable, but was in reality not work- able. He said the Eugene Decisions design involved a great deal of community participation even without citizen involvement in identifying premises. MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 22, 1991 Page 4