CC Minutes - 07/21/10 Work Session

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Mr. Clark and Mr. Poling indicated they wished to receive updated information regarding the commission applications and selection process as it became available. Mr. Clark asked Mr. Ruiz to explain in greater detail the current application and selection process for the Police Commission. Mr. Ruiz responded that he was not prepared to answer Mr. Clark's question but noted that he would provide additional information to the council later on. Mr. Poling was concerned that the council appeared to have been left out until the final stages regarding the application, selection and appointment process for the Police Commission. Mr. Clark asked Mr. Ruiz to provide the full slate of candidates for the vacant Police Commission position regardless of which candidates had been eliminated by either the commission or Mayor Piercy. Ms. Miller stated that the Police Commission intended to interview all viable candidates before forwarding their recommendations to Mayor Piercy. Ms. Ortiz maintained that the commission's public outreach and resource review subcommittee represented a good opportunity for community members to become more involved in the policy work of the Commission. Ms. Ortiz, seconded by Mr. Pryor, moved to approve the Eugene Police Commission's FY2011 Work Plan. The motion passed unanimously, 6:0. Ms. Miller thanked staff for their assistance with the commission's presentation. Chief Kerns stated that the final draft of the revised taser policy was very similar to the policy revisions that the Police Commission had recommended. He noted that he did not intend to finalize the taser policy revisions until the training curriculum and the handbooks regarding the revised policy had been completed. He stated that those materials were expected to be completed sometime within the next month. Chief Kerns noted that the emergency vehicle operations training for EPD officers in September would include the application of the department's revised pursuit policies. He noted that the materials for that training were also to be completed by September. B. WORK SESSION - Eugene Counts Update Mr. Ruiz provided an introduction to the update of the Eugene Counts initiative and stated that it would involve a review of the visions, goals and extensive public outreach processes that were being used. He stated that while the final iterations of the Eugene Counts initiative had not been completed, many of the information elements of the initiative had been used during the City's most recent budget processes. Terrie Monroe introduced Pavel Gubanikhin and Jeff Oswald whom she noted had each made significant contributions to the planning of the Eugene Counts initiative. Ms. Monroe stated that the Eugene Counts initiative would, among other outcome measuring tools, involve the use of a web-based dashboard to facilitate communication and track the progress of the desired outcomes. Ms. Monroe briefly described how the various strategies being used for the Eugene Counts initiative had been developed. She further described how those individual strategies corresponded to the five primary goals of the Eugene City Council. Ms. Monroe provided a demonstration of the web-based dashboard tool being used as part of the Eugene Counts initiative. She stated that the tool had been designed only to provide basic information regarding how the initiative had directly addressed the five City Council goals. MINUTES—Eugene City Council July 21, 2010 Page 3 Work Session