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is working to transfer some of these responsibilities to other entities. He . said the department will retain the business loan program and will continue to carryon the enterprise zone program as well as responsive siting assistance. Mr. Farkas said that the downtown phase-down will reduce the City's proactive role outside the urban renewal district and support to the Downtown Commis- sion. He said mall regulations will either be reduced, eliminated, or contracted-out. Mr. Farkas said that a Contractual Services Fund would be established by charging for planning and development services that the department is now providing without charge. He said the configuration would also be used to more aggressively pursue discretionary funding from Federal grant programs as well as private foundations to support neighborhood and community agendas. Mr. Farkas described the Neighborhood Enhancement Team as a multi-department network working with existing resources to better meet the needs of neighbor- hoods and the community. Describing the department's capacity and demand, Mr. Farkas said that for the current year it had 170,000 hours of regular work time and 5,000 hours of uncompensated overtime. The department services 12-15 boards, commissions, and major committees. This amounts to 20,000 annual staff hours. Mr. Farkas gave the following as examples of staff's time commitment to sample projects: BCAC task team report, 1,750 hours; LTD station siting, 4,400 hours; Parking conversion program, 5,500 hours; . Commercial Lands Study, 4,050 hours; and Willakenzie Plan, 7,400 hours. Mr. Farkas said that the Eugene Decisions process will reduce the department's available staff resources to about 150,000 regular hours. He said it would add about 10,000 staff hours to the department each of the next three years to implement Eugene Decisions. There was a brief discussion about how to manage staff hours. Mr. Gleason said the organization needs to experiment with the changes, record and evaluate them. He suggested carefully describing the problem, choosing an intervention, and measuring it with experience. With regard to scope analy- sis, Mr. Boles said council will need a general policy for ranking the issues. 7. Public Works Chris Andersen, Public Works Director, described the strategies used in her department to address the shortfall including physical consolidations, moving eligible services to non-general funds, identifying opportunities for in- creased efficiencies, and reducing service levels where feasible. Ms. Andersen said the consolidation of Parks Services with Public Works Maintenance allowed the department to eliminate the Lincoln site, including consolidation of purchasing/warehousing activities and the rough-mowing . MINUTES--Eugene City Council December 7, 1992 Page 5 4 p.m.