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Mayor Piercy appreciated the effort made to publicize the public hearing, noting it had been advertised twice in the newspaper. She looked forward to more opportunities to move this issue ahead. Councilor Solomon noted that a four-hour work session had been scheduled for October 19 on this topic. She asked the Mayor to outline what the meeting sought to accomplish and whether she wanted input on it at this time to help prepare for that. She also wondered if there could be a public input component added to it. City Manager Taylor asked Mr. Penwell to respond. Mr. Penwell averred that four hours was a limited amount of time. He noted that he had listed ten issues in the action plan but he expected more issues to arise. He hoped to get an indication of where the council was leaning individually and collectively on certain issues in order to use it as the "kick off' for the public participation process and engage the community in the value-based issues with some inclination from the council. City Manager Taylor thought narrowing the possibilities would help to engage the public. Mr. Penwell expressed his preference for documenting the work session well in order to get that information out to the public and offer them the chance to respond. Councilor Bettman stated that she had asked for this hearing because she believed it was good to identify any issues that could be out there that were overlooked when putting the process together. She thought doing general scoping beforehand would help gain public input up front. She opined that it was not fair to go out to the public and declare that anything was possible. Rather, she felt it was prudent to define the boundaries of the issue. The meeting adjourned at 8:55 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Dennis M. Taylor City Manager (Recorded by Ruth Atcherson) MINUTES-Eugene City Council Regular Session September 12, 2005 Page 10