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Recreation, Effective, Accountable Municipal Government, and Fair, Stable and Adequate Financial Resources). <br />This effort will help guide what gets focused on in the coming year, and lead to a more transparent way of tracking <br />and communicating progress toward achieving the community’s goals. <br /> <br />Informing the council’s work will be the results of the Eugene Counts effort, along with the just-released 2009 <br />Eugene Community Survey and the results of other recent surveys and public input processes. This information <br />will help to keep the goals and outcomes the City will be working toward, closely tied to community values and <br />priorities. For more information, contact Terrie Monroe at terrie.e.monroe@ci.eugene.or.us or 541-682-5412. <br /> <br />Eugene Counts Offers Vivid Snapshot of What Residents Want for Eugene <br />Eugene Counts’ public engagement phase used a broad-based approach, including workshops, discussions, and <br />interviews and surveys, to develop a clearer picture of the concrete results the community would like to achieve. <br />Using a talk-to-people-on-their-own-turf approach allowed the City to hear broadly from different segments of the <br />community; while some community members are comfortable coming to a council meeting to testify, many are <br />interested in communicating in other ways and settings. Thus, Eugene Counts listened to people where they feel <br />most comfortable—in parks, at community events and gatherings ranging from the Saturday Market to Duck <br />football tailgates, in their homes via quick- and long-version web surveys, at neighborhood- and school-based <br />meetings, even on Facebook, where some community members feel far more at home than they would in a formal <br />City meeting. <br /> <br />This approach yielded a vivid snapshot of what was on the minds of the community members who participated this <br />summer and fall, and a rich source of information on the results people most want for Eugene. <br /> <br />The Eugene Counts public engagement process asked 1,000 community members to spontaneously identify the <br />top results or outcomes they wanted related to each of the five council goals. While each goal was treated in <br />isolation, several outcomes were echoed across multiple goals; those issues were so salient that they were <br />deemed relevant to several diverse topics. Downtown, public safety, jobs and economic development, and support <br />for alternative transportation modes crossed multiple council goals. The most frequently mentioned outcomes for <br />each goal were: <br /> <br />Safe Community People feel safe walking <br />Visible police presence <br />Decreased crime (especially property crime) <br />Offenders kept locked up <br /> <br />Sustainable Development More jobs <br />Infill/compact development <br />Thriving downtown <br />Help small or local businesses <br /> <br />Accessible and Thriving Accessible to all incomes <br />Already great <br />Culture and Recreation <br /> <br />Support local arts <br /> <br />Variety of programming <br />Cater to broad tastes <br /> <br />Effective, Accountable More responsive <br />Greater transparency <br />Municipal Government <br />Serve all equally <br /> <br />Better public engagement <br />More effective communication <br /> <br />Fair, Stable and Adequate Prioritize spending (including public safety, infrastructure) <br />New revenue sources <br />Financial Resources <br /> <br />Everyone pays fair share <br /> <br />Greater transparency <br />Economic development <br /> <br /> <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2 <br />January 21, 2010 <br />