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e e e would take on the issue. Because of the importance of this issue to the City of Springfield, he believed that Mr. Rutan would have asked that this item be reconsidered when he returned. Mayor Miller said that it is his understanding that any councilor can request reconsideration of an item in the month following action and asked whether this was true. Mr. Gleason agreed to get clarification on this issue from the City Attorney's Office. Ms. Bascom said that she realizes now that voting against the first motion was the wrong way to stop final action on this issue. However, she reiterat- ed the importance of this issue to Eugene's partner jurisdiction, the City of Springfield. The council discussed this issue at length and acknowledged that it would not be able to resolve this issue completely. It reviewed its ground rule that any two councilors can request that an item be postponed to the following meeting. The council agreed that any request for postponement should be made before a motion is made and before councilors declare their position on an issue. The Mayor is excluded from this because he is a non-voting member of the council. (At 8:30 p.m. the council took a ten-minute break.) E. Committee Reports to Council Ms. Bascom expressed frustration with the difficulty she is having in keeping the council updated on committee reports. She noted that the council has moved away from allowing committee reports during process sessions and said that this will be especially difficult in light of the council's new three- minute per councilor limit on items from the City Council, Mayor, and City Manager. The council discussed this issue and made several recommendations. While some members of the council favored updating the council on committee reports in a memo, others favored periodically having a Wednesday agenda item specif- ically for this purpose. A suggestion was made that councilors continue to bring committee reports during Wednesday work sessions as a part of the items from the council, mayor, and manager. F. Council Work load and Council Compensation Mr. Boles indicated that compensation for councilors and the Mayor would allow some persons to serve on the council who are not otherwise able, for financial reasons, to devote the time necessary from their jobs. Mr. Robinette acknowledged the need to reduce individual councilors' work load, but felt that maintaining a purely voluntary council service is vital to the public process. He noted that the council is a policy body, not an implementation body, and suggested that the workload could be reduced by removing the council from implementation tasks. MINUTES--Eugene City Council Quarterly Process Session June 5, 1991 Page 4