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I I I Councilman Murray suggested action that would express approval of the proposal wi th flexible guidelines that would particularly recogn.ize the timing problem, and instruct staff to prepare a more formal kind of document for Council consideration. e Mayor Anderson hesitated in referring the matter to staff, he tho~ght a more detailed proposal could be brought back later. Councilman Keller thought the main thing was to do something about the Council's selection procedure. He thought that taking applications l1I'Ould result in a tremendous supply of candidates, most of them unknown to most Council members, and selection probably would wind up being someone already known to the Council anyway. He said he had no misgivings about any appointments mad e by the Council in the past, but he thought it would be well to standardize the Council's selection procedure. Manager noted citizen interest forms with which he was familiar that could be pre- sented for Council consideration. Mr. Murray said he would bring back guidelines _if that was needed to get the program started although he felt the outline proposal presented wou1d cause no staff d.irficulties in presenting a more concrete program. M,1.';or sUI'j(jcstt'd he ilnd ilrJoc!Jr.r flIc>mlJor or two of the Council might work out some- rJliny bl:.'l.'on n'0!rring it to ~tdFf. He had real reservations about throwing the (ju(!:;i:ion (0 :;(JfF .It tlli s point: IJL'cause of the legaJ eomp1 ieations, timing, etc. n: was rca]jll sOI1lC'i:h.iny [or the' ('ounci1 d ;elf to work out, he said. Councilman Haws thought the annual participation month was the strongest point of the proposal for drawing citizen involvement. But the Mayor said he felt the pro- posal should be examined in the light of gaining citizen participation in all areas of the community, not just the political arena. And he didn't feel there were enough appointments to serve as an enticement, a lot of people would be frustrated when limited numbers were chosen from a multitude of applications. As an example he cited the Human Rights Commission - the numbers of people interested in serving e there and the difficuity in explaining to certain persons why they were not quali- fied for that Commission. A feeling of prejudice might even exist, he said. Comm Some further discussion took place about the type of participation desired, oppor- 8/13/75 tunities available, etc., reSUlting in Councilman Keller's offer to serve on a File Council sUbcommittee, and Mayor Anderson's offer to speak privately with Councilman Murray to further point out difficulties and complications involved in selecting membership for various boards and commissions. No action was taken. R. Decriminalization Local Government Codes - Councilwoman Shirey thought it would be helpful to,have Council review of recent legislation regarding new enforcement procedures. Assistant Manager said that staff was working on both the building and traffic codes as they were affected by recent legislation (decriminalization) Corom and that proposals would be brought to the Council in the near future for policy 8/20/75 direction. File S. Metropolitan Sewer Study - Councilman Keller reported that because of DEQand EPA requirements the Metropolitan Sewer Committee had approved a study under a 208 Comm planning grant to review work to date with regard to a metropolitan sewer system. Because of these requirements, he said, it would probably be June 1976 before 8/20/75 some type of program was ready to go. File T. Questionnaire, Hearings Official - Manager reminded Council of questionnaire with regard to use of hearings official in making zone change decisions and asked that e it be returned to the manager's office by September 1. (Questionnaire distributed to Council members at adjourned joint meeting wi th Springfield and Lane County Comni 8/20/75 officials. ) File 8/25/75 - 22 4-e><o