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~ VI. COUNCIL WORK PLAN Citing time constraints, the council postponed this item to a future meeting. The meeting recessed at 1:30 and reconvened at 1:35 p.m. e e V. WORK SESSION: EUGENE DECISIONS Barb Bellamy of the Eugene Decisions Office distributed copies of a document entitled "Strategy Analysis--Key Dates" to the council. She said that the council needed to agree on components of the strategies and which components must be analyzed. The council agreed to extend its Monday meeting to com- plete those tasks. Mr. Boles proposed that the council move the strategy to reduce energy expen- ditures/energy audit rebate to the category entitled "Cross-Organizational." The council agreed to Mr. Boles' suggestion. Responding to a question from Mr. Boles regarding the support of persistent voters for various revenue sources, Ms. Bellamy distributed a memorandum to the council entitled "Additional Data Results" and referred him to the graph on page 3. Ms. Bellamy noted that the graduate student team working with Ed Weeks and Bill Simonsen reported that there was no significant difference in the responses of persistent and nonpersistent voters in terms of revenue support. Mr. McDonald apologized for leaving the meeting early and encouraged the council to coordinate its discussions about revenues with other local juris- dictions. Mr. McDonald left the meeting at 1:40 p.m. With Tony Mounts of the Eugene Decisions Office acting as facilitator, the council reviewed the list of suggested revenue sources and indicated its support for further analysis of each source. The council agreed to further analysis of a business net income tax, an two percent countywide increase in the Transient Room Tax, a restaurant tax, a local retail sales tax, a person- al income tax to be levied on the area within the urban growth boundary, a gas tax, and property collection to the full margin available. The council agreed it was not interested in further analysis of a corporate income tax, an entertainment tax, a work privilege tax for nonresidents, a carbon tax, and a tax on peripheral parking. Responding to a question from Mr. Miller, Mr. Mounts said that staff would provide the council with more information regarding the time and effort need- ed for each analysis at its Monday meeting. Council Committee on Eugene Decisions members scheduled a meeting to prepare for the council's meeting of February 17 on February 14, 1992, at 1:30 p.m. MINUTES--Eugene City Council Lunch Work Session February 12, 1992 Page 7