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Ms. Kennedy acted as facilitator for the council discussion. She stressed the importance of being succinct. She listed the project values, as follows: ? the project demonstrate fiscal responsibility; ? the project should produce government efficiency; ? the resulting building should be user-friendly; ? the project should embody environmental stewardship; ? the project should enhance the downtown area; ? the project should inspire civic pride. Ms. Kennedy recommended that these values be shared in the public process in order to find out what they meant to members of the community. She asked the council if it would support engaging the public in a discussion of these values and, if so, if the councilors thought these were the appropriate values. Ms. Solomon responded that the values captured what she had been trying to get at. She supported them. She felt encouraging community members to talk about the values would help them move to the next level in the process. Mr. Papé opined that the fifth and sixth items seemed to move beyond values and into the territory of subjective stylistic judgments. Ms. Kennedy said ‘values’ was a “squishy” word. She underscored that the list came from the important aspects the councilors expressed and wanted to accomplish. Mr. Pryor agreed that the values “got at” what the council sought to accomplish. He felt that the list would work for both the general public and the technical public. Mr. Kelly liked the list. He felt it was a little broad, however. Regarding public involvement, he expressed concern that the council would be asking citizens to weigh in on something it could not deliver. He suggested the council adopt the values in some way and then go to the public to flesh the list out. Mr. Pryor said the list was what the council thought was important but there should be a “back door” in the community in the case of a sentiment that was strongly and widely felt, so that it would be heard by the council. He proposed that the council solicit additional value input but not imply to the public that the list was not made up of key and important vales. Ms. Bettman wanted more clarity in the values. She averred they were too broad and that anything in the community would fit into them. Mr. Kelly remarked that the council would hear about it if anything in the list evoked a strong and fundamental reaction in the community. He reiterated his feeling that the council needed to approve the values in a motion in order to move forward. Mayor Piercy commented that whatever project the City undertook would embody the project values. She noted that there was a difference in values in the process versus values in the project. She wanted everyone to be certain that the resulting project came from the engagement of the public. MINUTES—Eugene City Council October 19, 2005 Page 2 Workshop