Item 3D: Ratification of IGR Meeting Minutes

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Mayor Piercy asked that the CCIGR consider whether a bill that could potentially be good but was not good enough might be something they just wanted to track. She asked them to consider, within the limits of what the staff could do, what if anything was important enough to be pushing for an amendment. She pointed out that it was a great deal of work. She thought a lot of things might not be worth the effort of taking a position on them. Ms. Bettman agreed that made sense in a “general broad overview,” but they went through dozens and dozens of bills at every meeting. She said they would only take a position regarding an amendment when they knew an amendment was being considered. She averred that staff wanted to take a position on a lot of the bills that she did not believe were elevated to the level of city policy. She believed that in a situation wherein it was city policy, the City did need to take a position. She felt the subcategories gave staff a much better direction. Ms. Taylor did not think staff members needed to use the subcategories for prioritization. She thought that would be the purview of the CCIGR. Ms. Wilson said the subcategories were on the drop-down menu for staff’s recommendation on the bills. She indicated that they could remove them. Public Affairs Manager for the Public Works Department, Eric Jones, noted that when a bill was amended it returned as an enrolled bill or a new bill. He stated that staff would then review it again. He said they would send it back to the CCIGR with the note that it had been amended and whether staff thought it should be opposed, supported, monitored, or a neutral stance should be taken on it. Ms. Bettman and Ms. Taylor indicated this would work for them. Mayor Piercy asked if there were any bills initiated by the departments. Ms. Wilson replied that there were four bills initiated thus far, all from the Eugene Police Department (EPD) and with the permission of State Senator Floyd Prozanski. She noted that the Oregon Sheriff’s Association and the Oregon Police Associa- tion had also picked up the same concepts and she was uncertain which would take the lead. She said she would bring them to the next CCIGR meeting. Mayor Piercy averred that the EPD should have the CCIGR looking at the bills and Sen. Prozanski should know what the policy makers thought about them. Ms. Wilson responded that those bills had not yet come out of legislative counsel. Ms. Bettman asked if any other department had initiated a bill. Ms. Wilson replied that there were no others at this time. Ms. Bettman agreed that things presented as legislation from the City should be reviewed by the CCIGR and approved by the City council. Ms. Wilson stated that the bills followed closely the policies that were adopted by the City in the city policy book. She reiterated that the bills had not been assigned numbers and were not out of legislative counsel so they were not exactly bills at this point. She indicated she would bring the bills to the January 23 meeting in order to gain the final go ahead. She added that she understood there were problems with the language of two of them. She said she would send the four original drafts to councilors. She explained that one was in regard to polygraphs for new hires, one made fleeing from an officer using something other than a motorized vehicle a misdemeanor, one was the elimination of the requirement of notification of a subject that he or she MINUTES—Council Committee on Intergovernmental January 16, 2007 Page 6 Relations