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Ms. Taylor suggested that the City Manager give an oral goals report at each City Council <br />meeting. <br /> <br />Mr. Papd encouraged the council to include a look at the budgetary "buckets" when considering <br />what goals to set. He suggested that a council retreat be scheduled to hold an in-depth discussion <br />on goals. <br /> <br />Mr. Meisner wondered if the grams that the City applied for at times related to council goals. He <br />also reiterated concern that some things were listed as complete were not actually complete. <br /> <br />Mr. Torrey reiterated the importance of relating progress on action priorities to the council. He <br />said that staff too often tried to find a way to do what the council had instructed staff to do when it <br />might be more prudent to explain that it could not be accomplished at that time. Mr. Carlson <br />responded that staff was trying to improve in that department, though sometimes it was not <br />pleasant or easy. <br /> <br />Mr. Kelly commented that, just as it was council's job to say what needed to be accomplished, it <br />was staff's job to explain what could not be attended to at that time because of limited resources. <br />Mr. Carlson replied that staff had tried to develop the action priorities with available resources. He <br />added that where staff "fell down" was in not making a better effort to bring to the council was <br />attention the new things that come along which have an impact on workload. Mr. Kelly responded <br />that nothing got on the list of priorities without a full council vote. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman remarked that staff added some work items to the list. <br /> <br />Ms. Nathanson requested that the City Manager, given the final report, provide his opinion one to <br />two weeks prior to the goal setting session on what was finished and what was not finished, and <br />what needed more work and should be included in the goals for the coming year. She asked the <br />executive managers to do the same. <br /> <br />Mr. Torrey said that in his State of the City address he intentionally avoided any issues that would <br />create a need for a vote of the people. He asked councilors to identify two or three things for the <br />goal-setting session that they wanted to accomplish in 2003-2004. He noted that he had been <br />working the promotion of statewide funding of schools. He suggested to councilors that they keep <br />their goals with them in order to provide public comment on them when necessary. <br /> <br />Mr. Carlson stated that the council goal action priorities were never meant to be a full work plan <br />for the City of Eugene. As an example, he noted that the Fire and Emergency Services <br />Department had as a priority the redesign of the Emergency Medical Services funding and the <br />allocation of fire response personnel. He said that this had taken much staff time, although it was <br />not in the council goals. He stressed that council goals had to fit into the overall operation of the <br />City of Eugene. <br /> <br /> MINUTES--Eugene City Council January 13, 2003 Page 11 <br /> Work Session <br /> <br /> <br />