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cast, FY94 budget, restaurant tax, implementation plan process issues, and . agenda control. Mr. MacDonald arrived at the meeting. City Manager Mike Gleason said it will be important over the next year that the senior management and the council have a complete view of the resource capacity of the organization, so the material presented will be quite de- tailed. He noted that last year non-compensable staff hours totaled 43,000. Mr. Gleason said that the implementation plan is estimated to require another 20,000 staff hours per year, and he is working under the assumption that the plan is the council's top priority. He said that the resource commitment by departments involved in program changes will be included in the details. B. Service Chanaes 1. Efficiencies Taraet Warren Wong, Administrative Services Director, recalled that the council asked staff to explore efficiencies in the following areas: consolidations, especially managerial or supervisory position; streamlining regulations and procedures to reduce workload and costs; automation; internal operations; and personnel costs. Mr. Wong described targeted efficiencies including merging the Library and PARCS departments, merging the Executive Department with Administrative Services, elimination of Centralized Text Production Services, the merging of . Parks Maintenance and Public Works Maintenance, and the elimination of the senior planner position in the Department of Public Safety. Savings in efficiencies thus far total $666,773 and potential savings for the remainder of the $800,000 have been identified and will be met by the time Executive Managers release the budget in the spring. Mr. Wong said that areas under consideration include adjustment to wages/benefits, contracting-out service delivery, establishment of fee-based service delivery, and work system analysis. The projected savings over a two- to three-year period is $200,000 to $500,000. Addressing a question from Ms. Ehrman, Mr. Wong said that the organization hopes to come in under the proposed budget's wage figure after negotiating with bargaining units. Mr. Gleason said all wage costs will be adjusted to within market. Mr. Wong said the City will also try to keep below projected staff growth. Mr. MacDonald expressed concern with eroding a base of quality employees by undercompensating them. Mr. Gleason explained that the standard of sustainability with which he is working ensures a quality base of employees. Mr. Wong described the City's Employee Transition Program which attempts to place employees affected by the Eugene Decisions strategy in vacant positions 6r retrain them for other positions. MINUTES--Eugene City Council December 7, 1992 Page 2 . 4 p.m.