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Work Session: Council Goals
Meeting Date: March 10, 2010 Agenda Item Number: C
Department: Central Services/City Manager’s Office Staff Contact: Terrie Monroe
www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: (541) 682-5412
ISSUE STATEMENT
This work session provides an opportunity for council review and adoption of a set of updated outcomes
for each of the five council goals incorporating the input provided at the January 23, 2010, work session.
The discussion will include a quick overview of next steps flowing from the adoption of the outcomes,
and a preview of some of the features that the Eugene Counts online dashboard could include.
BACKGROUND
A year ago, at the February 2009, Mayor and City Council Retreat, the council launched an approach to
goal-setting and accomplishment that has come to be known as Eugene Counts. This approach features a
foundation of council goals that are activated by concrete community-informed outcomes, strengthened
by rigorous and transparent monitoring of progress toward achieving those results, and kept relevant by
ongoing commitment to listen broadly to the community.
Using information from the Eugene Counts public engagement effort as well as varied sources such as
the community survey, neighborhood survey, and downtown safety and development discussions, the
council had a rich discussion of potential outcomes and the underlying values represented by those
outcomes at the January 23, 2010, goal-setting retreat. That discussion guided the development of the
updated set of outcomes presented in Attachment A.
The March 10, 2010, work session will give council the opportunity to adopt the updated outcomes and
thus launch the next phase of work on Eugene Counts, which includes the development of strategies to
achieve the outcomes, measures to track progress, and an accessible dashboard to engage the community
in ongoing dialogue about the City’s performance.
COUNCIL OPTIONS
1.Approve the set of outcomes as presented.
2.Revise the outcomes and then approve.
CITY MANAGER’S RECOMMENDATION
The City Manager recommends that the council finalize the council goals process by approving the
updated outcomes.
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SUGGESTED MOTION
Move to approve the set of outcomes as presented.
ATTACHMENTS
A. Proposed Outcomes
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Staff Contact: Terrie Monroe
Telephone: (541) 682-5412
Staff E-Mail: terrie.e.monroe@ci.eugene.or.us
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Attachment A: Proposed Outcomes
Sustainable Development Accessible and Thriving
Safe Community
Culture and Recreation
A community that meets its present environmental,
A community where all people are safe,
economic and social needs without compromising
valued and welcome.A community where arts and outdoors are integral
the ability of future generations to meet their own
to our social and economic well-being and are
needs.
available to all.
Outcomes:
Outcomes:
Decreased property crime
Outcomes:
Increased downtown development
Greater sense of safety
Accessible to all incomes
(especially downtown)
Decreased unemployment/strategic job
Preserve strength in arts and outdoors
creation
Visible and accessible police presence
Invest in arts and culture as an economic
Support for small and local business
Better police/community relations
engine
Decision-making that weighs economic,
social equity and environmental (triple
bottom line) effects
Effective, Accountable Fair, Stable and Adequate
Municipal Government Financial Resources
A government that works openly, collaboratively, A government whose ongoing financial resources
and fairly with the community to achieve are based on a fair and equitable system of
measurable and positive outcomes and provide revenues and are adequate to maintain and deliver
effective, efficient services. municipal services.
Outcomes:Outcomes:
Transparent and interactive communication A long-term sustainable budget
Public engagement that involves the New or expanded revenue sources
community broadly
Accessible and transparent financial
Stronger partnership between government information
entities