Item C: Eugene Counts/Council Goals

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ECC UGENE ITY OUNCIL AIS GENDA TEM UMMARY Work Session: Eugene Counts/Council Goals Meeting Date: December 16, 2009 Agenda Item Number: C Department: Central Services/City Manager’s Office Staff Contact: Terrie Monroe www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 682-5412 ISSUE STATEMENT This work session provides a preliminary look at Eugene Counts results, as a lead-in to the goals session tentatively scheduled for January 7, 8 and/or 9, 2010. The discussion will include a quick review of the strategies used to solicit input during the public engagement phase, a discussion of the outcomes community members identified as most important under each of the five high-level council goals, and a look ahead to the work to be accomplished in the January goals session. BACKGROUND Eugene Counts emerged from the February 2009, Mayor and City Council Retreat as a way of connecting council goals to concrete outcomes that reflect community priorities. Those outcomes, in turn, will help provide a foundation for focused effort to make a meaningful difference where it matters most to community members. Outcomes and their related measures will help inform service delivery, budget decisions and strategies to improve performance, and will provide a transparent and accessible way for residents to monitor the City’s progress toward its goals. At the May 26, 2009, work session, the council reviewed the plan for the public engagement phase of Eugene Counts and chose to defer decision-making on identifying specific outcomes and measures until the community had an opportunity to weigh in. Since then, community members have participated in the task of envisioning what successful attainment of the five council goals would look like, including identifying the most important results they would like to see for Eugene. At the October 26, 2009, work session, the council reviewed the broad-based approach used to help engage community members across geographic and demographic boundaries, and heard about the methods used to systematically analyze qualitative data derived from disparate sources. The December 16, 2009, work session will provide a preliminary view of the outcomes community members identified as most important. The session is timed to offer councilors the opportunity to reflect on those outcomes over the council break, and to help inform the council’s selection in the January goals session of a set of three to five outcomes under each of the five goals (for a total of 15 to 25 outcomes) that will provide the foundation of the Eugene Counts framework and the performance dashboard community members will eventually use to track progress toward those goals. After the final outcomes have been adopted in January, staff will identify proposed measures to track progress toward each, and will map current and new strategies designed to help achieve those outcomes. Z:\CMO\2009 Council Agendas\M091216\S091216C.doc