Item 2A: Approval of City Council Minutes

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ATTACHMENT C M I N U T E S Eugene City Council McNutt Room—City Hall 777 Pearl Street—Eugene, Oregon February 22, 2012 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: George Brown, Pat Farr, Betty Taylor, George Poling, Chris Pryor, Alan Zelenka. COUNCILORS ABSENT: Andrea Ortiz. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the February 22, 2012, work session of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Envision Eugene Planning Director Lisa Gardner, Planner Jason Dedrick, and Planner Alissa Hansen joined the council for the item and shared a PowerPoint presentation entitled Envision Eugene: Project update for City Council Work Session, February 22, 2012. Mr. Dedrick led the council through the first segment of the presentation, which outlined the staff proposal for flexible implementation of the recommendations coming out of the Envision Eugene process as called for in the Seven Pillars of Envision Eugene. The proposal relied on several strategies: 1) an ongoing monitoring system that might require the development of new systems or tools, 2) ongoing reporting that summarized current and trend data, 3) development of a plan to address emerging needs, 4) periodic evaluations that could lead to adjustments to planning assumptions or regulations, and 5) City collaboration in various regional planning activities. Councilors asked questions clarifying the details of the presentation. While she acknowledged the proposal called for five-and ten-year evaluations, Mayor Piercy encouraged staff to provide the council with more iterative and frequent updates over the monitoring period. She also recommended that the council review the list of monitored items to confirm they were the right things to monitor. She wanted the City to approach its monitoring from the point of view of what the council wanted to achieve, and advocated for better way of knowing that the City was moving in the direction that the council agreed upon. She wanted the reporting to provide the public with both the underlying data and the conclusions. Mayor Piercy asked that the monitoring address the subject of how Eugene was doing in protecting its neighborhoods and whether its interventions were helping or not helping. Mr. Clark agreed with Mayor Piercy. He said technology that provided real time analysis was available now and asked why the City was not using such technology. Ms. Gardner said that real-time analysis was the City’s goal but the question was what platform to employ. She noted that there was also the issue of cost and compatibility with existing City permit tracking and land use application systems. The City’s goal would be to have something that worked on a daily basis and provided long-term tracking as well. MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 22, 2012 Page 1 Work Session