1.28.2019 City Council Work Session Meeting Minutes

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MINUTES Eugene City Council Harris Hall, 125 East 8�h Avenue Eugene, Oregon 97401 January 28, 2019 5:30 p.m. Councilors Present: Emily Semple, Betty Taylor, Alan Zelenka, Jennifer Yeh, Mike Clark, Claire Syrett, Chris Pryor, Greg Evans Mayor Vinis opened the January 28, 2019, Work Session of the Eugene City Council. Committee Reports and Items of Interest • Councilor Evans - reported on the National League of Cities Housing Task Force meeting. The focus of the meeting was on homelessness, housing supply, land supply, and the discrepancy between cost of housing and income, with the goal of identifying several strategies to affect federal policy. Also, the League of Oregon Cities recently held its "City Day" and is ready to work on housing, property tax reform, and local pre-emption issues. • Councilor Yeh - reported from the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission that the wood harvested from their local poplar farm was milled and used as lighting grills in the Springfield Public Library meeting room; noted that the MWMC would be releasing its community survey soon; announced the next meeting of the Envision Eugene Technical Advisory Committee and the change of date for the Police Commission meeting. • Councilor Taylor - reported that she continues to hear from many people about the proliferation of SG technology; the need for undergrounding the utilities along South Willamette; and concerns about lost parking along East Amazon due to improvements to that street. Police Auditor Mark Gissiner provided information to the council about next steps in the process of reviewing an officer involved shooting. Council Discussion • Councilor Yeh - asked about the criteria for determining whether an incident rises to the level of community impact case. • Councilor Clark- asked whether the Cascade Middle School shooting warranted classification as a community impact case and whether the use of body cams will result in more or fewer cases. He noted that community impact cases are opportunities to analyze the details of an incident to help explain to the public exactly what happened, • Councilor Zelenka - acknowledged community concerns about the speed with which information was being made public and asked whether this case deviated from what is normal; noted that many people were jumping to inaccurate conclusions, which may have been averted with the earlier release of the body cam footage. 2. WORK SESSION: Municipal Court Presiding Judge Human Resources Director Keri Beraldo introduced the item and walked council through the options for moving forward on appointing a new Presiding Judge. MINUTES — Eugene City Council January 28, 2019 Page 1 Work Session