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accreditation by a site inspection team this spring and will receive full accreditation this fall in Denver. The Planning and Development Department is completing its first strategic planning process in many years. Similar strategic planning processes are underway in the Police Department and the Library, Recreation and Cultural Services Department. The Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department completed a multi-year strategic plan this year as well. In the wake of the conviction and imprisonment of two former Eugene police officers for illegal and egregious on-duty conduct, the Eugene Police Department (EPD), under the leadership of our new Police Chief, has been working on a variety of fronts to restore and build the community's confidence. The International City-County Management Association (ICMA) and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)jointly conducted a comprehensive audit of the Eugene Police Department. The ICMA-PERF Management Review found the EPD to be fundamentally sound. The report made 57 recommendations for improvement that we have embraced and will be implementing over the next several years. The report and the department performance audit provide a useful framework for action. In addition, our independent police auditor reports that the EPD has made measurable progress in the timely handling of community complaints and the professional conduct of internal affairs investigation since reforms were initiated by our Police Chief last July. Our Central Services Department has been the lead on many of the noted facilities improvements over the last year. In addition, they have helped prepare our two-year Capital Improvement Plan, the Multi-Year Financial Plan, the FY04 comprehensive financial audit report, and the FY06 budget. Central Services has also been engaged in the Area Information Records System (AIRS) conversion, city hall master planning and the roll out of our public intemet web portal. Human Resources and Risk Services (HRRS) staff is assisting me with our national search for a new Planning and Development Executive Director. Despite the spate of recent retirements that temporarily has depleted their ranks, HRRS has helped us negotiate new multi-year contracts with AFSCME, IATSE and IAFF that maintain our market competitiveness and help us move towards our goal of health care cost containment. Our intergovernmental relations staff have labored mightily at the state legislature again this session. While still engaged in the work that will continue to until the legislature adjourns, I can say that we have not yet suffered as many setbacks as feared. I am sure this is due to our coordinated IGR committee priorities and to the tireless work of our IGR staff in Salem. In a year when collective bargaining relations were strained in our community, our City collective bargaining teams worked through some difficult issues to reach agreement at the bargaining table. For this, I am grateful to everyone on both sides of the various bargaining tables for their demeanor and their focus on solving problems with mutual respect. I was proud to shake hands with each of the bargaining teams, sign all three collective bargaining agreements and thank everyone for their hard work during the last year. I was especially pleased by the agreement with our firefighters. The two-year agreement was reached and ratified by June 30 this year without the need for mediation and/or arbitration for the first time in recent memory. I conveyed my thanks and congratulations to everyone who helped make these labor agreements possible. 14