Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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sion, Mr. Corey expb.ined tll<1t thes<:3 items were in rz~spons~ to co:;.m>.:-.il conimenLs about Q:ettlnl:! "mon::: ~. ~ peopk to the table" than the few who Vler~~ typil::aUy involved in such activities today, Vv'1likMr. Pape support.ed re~ching ou.t to a tm.lader cirde of people, he wa$. uncert.<lin wll'.d.her thi~ goal sho.uld bc part of the neighborhood initiative, In re$.ponsi;~ to another qu.estion from !Vir- Papt,Mr. ('orey ex:phined th.<!t the fDCUi; on inuH was in re~.;pon::;e to the planning aspects of the. cotmnents that were made and the ong(}ing n::v'kw of hnd Ui;ef>. lIe feH it was a l-ligher level "generk" responsc to those conmlent$, Mr. Pape asked 'fYk Corcy to spc.'lk to Action Step 0, having to do with ::>coping prz)ject$.~'lk Con:~y said scoping pr~jects had been compkted in t'VG neighborhoods and at the high€:.f>t level vi/ere activities that hrought into. t~)cm the prbrities of the Indi vidual neighbor:hoo,k He stated it was a f<.%ourceyint€:11sive activity and the City had 17 neighbod100ds .left "to go" iftbh scoring f>hnuld continue. Mr.Pape asked it this touch(~d on updating neighborhood p!an~.;, Mr. Corey asked Planning Diviskm Managl..~r SUSM Muir to respond. Ivk \.hdr stated that the scoping could le.'ld to making such a IbL Ms, Bridges darifle<..i that the i;l:::oping projects ha.d taken a difkn.:11t approac.h to neighbottKH)d rdlncmcn.t plam, as they d.id not have the same land me stan.ding as ;;\ :rdinement pbtL She. i;ald it was a way for the differcnt stakeholders in a, ndghborhood to come together and identify the ::;ervice needs that tlhoy had Bnd to identify ::;ome prioritief> ~mch as whefher to. build sitkwalks or bicycle path..~. Sh<;~ note<..1 that the.se projccts had be(~n compkted in the Wc:st Un! ver",ity and the. Bethel ndghborhood:;;, .Mf- Papf: a,sccrtained fromMs, Bridges that the City cf.mld nut u.ndertake fu.rther scoping prz)jects using the available resources, Rega.rd-ing Ad.!on !t{:1)1 9,N.k Pape o.pined th;;tt it would bc good t!) idenHt~, the neighborhood-ba~.;ed s.ervices it rderred to in order to ensure that the City cou1d ddiver the rcsourcz:>int{:1)sive sz~rvkes. He thought that the City shou.ld start 'with ndg:bborhoods to which it could deliver s<:Tvices, t\.-1s. Taylor corn:menkd that the best thing in the plan wa::; an inc.rease in funding t"()r neighhorhood nm.vslctteTh. She averred that th{~ plan seemed to cncompass .'evi;)rything that the City does." She i;ought to find ways to get citizens more involved in their nelghhorhood~., in (}r<.ler to bette, facilitate communica- tion and the flow of information between citizens and the City. She remark<::d t.h;;tt morc involveme.m might kad to more conientlol,IS1:leSS but thii; dcveh>pment could have a pOf>itive iui111ence on City government She wish(~l t.o .focm; on a higher level of involvement and not a high.)r level of siJtisfb,ction, Ms. 'ravlnr related that she had bc<::!l concerncd hritiaHv that an of th<:3 inti.nmation wai; from staif and ./ . none was from the neighlxrrhood le.a.ders, She thought that tl:w plan should sta.lt with >,vhat the City thought it should do and then work with what the neighborhood kader$ thought the inlti'ltive should dn. She :;;.hare<.l her shock in seeing t.he citizen involvement phm. She opined it was a backward ll1GVC and shoutd not he co:;.:nted <1$ an achkvement given that the City had dif>wlveU the Citizen Involvement Committe(~ (CIC}, She thought a good step to take wo.u.ld be to reactivate t.he Cle. Continnh1Q:.Ms,'favbr suggested that the co.uneil start ridding the E~t of items, af> the plan was unwieldy. ,.,.... ,.. ...". ~ , ;vls. Bdtman tha:nh~d staff fOf the progn:~ss that had been made on ()pportmrity siting and the Safe Parks plan,whkh increased police bicycle patrols in the City's pm'k areas, hoth gDalil sh~o hdd for the ndghbor.. MINtJfES.~Fugene City COlmdJ Au.gust 1O.2D05 P.<!ge3 \V ork Sesf>ion ..... . ..... ..........................................................................................................--.----...-------------...........