Item 3A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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local laws that governed this confidentiality and the City was required to function within them. She said in situations having to do with a union negotiating a contract “that goes above and beyond that law,” the ordinance should not be governed by the collective bargaining contract. She asserted that the ordinance as written would give the Police Chief, City Manager, and EPEA “the ability to dictate policy for the City of Eugene” as it pertained to the Police Auditor. Councilor Papé said it seemed that the collective bargaining agreement could not violate the ordinance or the law, but the law could not be changed to violate the agreement. He asked if it depended on what happened first. Mr. Klein responded that his colleague Attorney Sharon Rudnick seemed to think the language could be crafted to accomplish the objective Councilor Kelly sought. He added that in addition to being bound by federal, state, and local law, the City was also bound by the existing collective bargaining agreement and could not take carte blanche with what a future collective bargaining agreement could say. He stressed that the issue of confidentiality was a mandatory subject of bargaining. He said the council could direct the City Manager to not agree to broaden the confidentiality provisions but the council could not refuse to bargain on that subject and in the end, should there not be agreement the arbitrator would dictate what the collective bargaining agreement would provide. Mayor Piercy called for a five minute break at 9:05 p.m. 5. PUBLIC HEARING and POSSIBLE ACTION: Resolution 4897 Adopting a Supplemental Budget; Making Appropriations for the City of Eugene for the Fiscal Year Beginning July 1, 2006, and Ending June 30, 2007 City Manager Taylor stated that this was the annual reconciliation of the budget. He asked Budget Manager Kitty Murdoch to briefly describe the issues subject to the public hearing. Ms. Murdoch explained that the first supplemental budget of the year contained $19.1 million in adjust- ments, primarily reconciliations of estimates put into the budget when it had been adopted. She cited, as an example, the beginning capital estimate which would be “trued up.” She said the budget also recognized new revenue and budget grants that had been awarded but not received in previous years were rebudgeted and new grants were recognized. She highlighted the supplemental budget, as outlined in the Agenda Item Summary (AIS). Mayor Piercy opened the public hearing. Kathy Saranpa , 3015 Friendly Street, chair of the Crest Drive Citizens Association (CDCA), presented a motion passed at the most recent meeting of the CDCA that endorsed the request made by the Crest Drive Community Team to have City staff request an additional $58,000 to enlarge the scope of the engineering survey to include Middle Crest. As a private citizen and member of the Crest Drive Community Team, she thought it was significant that the inclusion of Middle Crest originated in the traffic study that the neighbors had put together. She felt it indicated that the citizens and city staff had worked well together. She anticipated bringing a context-sensitive solution to the council later in the year. She supported adoption of the Supplemental Budget. John Barofsky , 2010 Hubbard Lane, thanked Councilor Kelly and Councilor Papé for their hard work. He asked that the citizen members of the Budget Committee receive a copy of the Supplemental Budget prior to its presentation. He said it would enable a greater understanding of the whole budgetary process. He had not known the supplemental budget was scheduled for approval until earlier in the day. He asserted that a MINUTES—Eugene City Council December 11, 2006 Page 10 Regular Meeting