Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT F M I N U T E S Eugene City Council McNutt Room—City Hall—777 Pearl Street Eugene, Oregon April 26, 2010 5:30 p.m. COUNCILORS PRESENT: Mike Clark, Betty Taylor, Chris Pryor, George Poling, George Brown, Alan Zelenka. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Andrea Ortiz, Jennifer Solomon. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. BRIEFING: Quarterly Briefing to City Council from Police Auditor Police Auditor Mark Gissiner provided an update on operational issues within the auditor’s office. He had been seeking clarity on public records laws with regard to public safety employees. The Civilian Review Board (CRB) had written to the Oregon Attorney General John Kroger asking for his opinion on that issue and Mr. Kroger had replied that his office could not become involved and the matter should be decided at the local level. He said he and the CRB would work with the City Attorney to develop guidelines and procedures. Mr. Gissiner had hoped to provide an annual report to the council but templates for statistical data were not in place and staff was reviewing case files and compiling data. He felt the model for addressing basic customer service complaints was dysfunctional and he was investigating a better approach for responding expeditiously to reports that did not need to be processed through the current police auditor system. He hoped to develop a rapid response customer service model that would provide residents with feedback in a day or two instead of two to three weeks. Mr. Gissiner described some of the trends he saw in the emerging data. He would analyze the data for more details once it was compiled and expected to provide the council with a report fairly soon. He was continuing with community outreach efforts and the groups he spoke to were very receptive to the information. He hoped that the auditor’s office would be eight to nine percent under budget at the end of the year and said it had not been necessary to issue any contracts for specialized service. He attended a Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) conference in Philadelphia and it was very informative; learning from the experiences of other communities was of great value. He concluded his comments by noting that the number of complaints remained at the same level as in 2008 and 2009. He also mentioned that a complaint related to a high profile issue had been dismissed on the basis of timeliness. Mr. Brown expressed disappointment in the Attorney General’s response to the CRB. He observed that it did not appear providing legal advice was one of the Attorney General’s duties. He hoped that local stakeholders would be able to develop appropriate procedures for maximum transparency of the system. He asked if information from the PERF conference was available online. Mr. Gissiner said that much of the information was presented during panel discussions. He would check on availability of the materials. MINUTES—Eugene City Council April 26, 2010 Page 1 Work Session