CC Minutes - 02/15/06 Work Session

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M I N U T E S Eugene City Council Work Session McNutt Room—Eugene City Hall February 15, 2006 Noon COUNCILORS PRESENT: Jennifer Solomon, Andrea Ortiz, David Kelly, Betty Taylor, Gary Papé, Bonny Bettman, George Poling, Chris Pryor. Her Honor Mayor Kitty Piercy called the meeting of the Eugene City Council to order. A. WORK SESSION: Memorandum of Understanding Between McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center and the City of Eugene City Manager Dennis Taylor, Planning and Development Director Susan Muir, and Glenn Klein of the City Attorney’s Office were present for the item. Ms. Solomon, seconded by Ms. Ortiz, moved to authorize the City Manager to sign the Memo- randum of Understanding. Mr. Pryor declared a conflict of interest due to his wife’s employment with the McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center. He left the meeting table and did not participate in the discussion or decision. Ms. Taylor noted that she sent an e-mail to the manager on January 29 indicating she had problems with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) but had not received a reply. She discussed her concerns about the MOU, asking if the City position funded by McKenzie-Willamette (Section 5) would be a temporary employee, and if the City could find someone well-qualified willing to take a temporary job. Ms. Muir said it was likely the City would use an in-house employee and backfill those duties with a temporary employee. Much would depend on the work load and other assignments that were in place when the application was received. Ms. Taylor suggested the result might be that other assignments may not be completed or would not be done by well-qualified staff. Ms. Muir did not think so. She said the City had minimum standards every application must meet and would ensure that the application did so. Ms. Taylor asked what would happen to the temporary employee after the project was completed. Ms. Muir said the person hired would be made aware of the status of the job. Ms. Taylor suggested that a highly qualified planner would be unlikely to take a temporary job. Ms. Muir indicated the successful applicant would have to meet the job qualifications established by the City. Ms. Taylor asked who would pay for the cost of the City’s work with McKenzie-Willamette on identifying potential funded sources for any needed transportation improvements (Section 8). Ms. Muir indicated that could be covered by application fees or the funding for the temporary Planning Division position. MINUTES—Eugene City Council February 15, 2006 Page 1 Work Session