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department advisory committees and the PSCC were policy issues rather than process issues. Mr. Pap6 suggested that the council hold three different work sessions, one related to process, one related to the department advisory committees, and one related to the regional committees. He wanted to discuss the roles and missions of the department advisory committees and regional committees before deciding whether to eliminate them. Ms. Solomon suggested that the McKenzie Watershed Council, Lane Regional Air Pollution Agency, Lane County Local Government Boundary Commission, and Lane Council of Governments were other regional groups the council should discuss. Mr. Kelly added the Region 2050 Steering Committee to the list of regional groups. 3. Priority Issues Update~Action Planning City Manager Taylor provided the update. He said that he intended to create multi-department teams for each of the council's eight priority issues. Each executive had taken one of the issues as part of his or her portfolio and would lead the effort. Each team would prepare a draft action plan based on the council's brainstorm at the February retreat. The plans would have a three- to five-year planning horizon. City Manager Taylor said that he would return with the plans in a series of work sessions. He believed that some of the plans would be relatively easy and ready to go fairly quickly. Other plans, such as "launching a neighborhood initiative" and "developing a strategy to help the homeless," were more complicated would take longer to complete. City Manager Taylor called the council's attention to Attachment D in the meeting packet, which was a template for the action plans. He anticipated that the action plans would be developed by the end of the summer, and the council would review them throughout the fall. He said the action plans would form the basis for future budget decision packages. Mr. Kelly expressed appreciation for the template. However, he was very disappointed by the time line proposed by the City Manager. He said the council had held its goal-setting session 1-1/2 months earlier, and it would be six months after that discussion occurred before the council would see the draft action plans. He acknowledged that some plans would be more complicated, but it was his expectation that the council would see initial steps on all the goals by June 2005. City Manager Taylor suggested that the time line would be affected by the amount of time the council spent on each plan. He believed that even if the review began in July, the effort would extend into the fall. Mr. Pap6 concurred with the remarks of Mr. Kelly. He suggested the council hold extra work sessions if it was necessary to get through the review more quickly. City Manager Taylor said the neighborhood initiative would be complex and take some time. He anticipated the discussion on a new city hall would also be complex but would not take so long due to the work that had already been done. The hospital goal was in process and there would be probably be some results to point to in the summer. The police review question would move fairly quickly after the public process occurred, but it would take the council some time to work through all the related issues. The arts and outdoors goal would MINUTES--Eugene City Council April 18, 2005 Page 8 Process Session