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Eugene City Council Retreat <br /> February 25-26, 2005 <br /> + ~ <br /> Balance budget with some reserves Unfunded O&M in several areas -street <br /> maintenance, parks, recreation, etc. <br /> Staff has done well on finding operational Pavement preservation <br /> efficiencies in man areas <br /> Has used new and creative ways for Street preservation funds still inadequate <br /> fundin sources <br /> People who can need to be willing to pay Limited resources <br /> for services <br /> A little progress regarding road City doesn't live within it's means -always <br /> maintenance revenue seeking revenue growth -priorities are <br /> skewed <br /> Very substantial imbalance between <br /> available resources and service demands <br /> Concern that the tax and fee well is not <br /> bottomless <br /> We keep postponing the inevitable talk of <br /> tax reform or bi cuts <br /> Failure to find new sources of revenue <br /> Limited progress on a long term alternative <br /> fundin source <br /> Unable to develop long-term ongoing and <br /> stable fundin sources <br /> Next Steps <br /> • Solicit statements from Council for vision statement .(inspirational ideas) <br /> • Consider and be prepared to discuss triple filter concept <br /> • Kitty, Andrea, Jennifer & Chris will come back at a process session with new <br /> ideas to consider <br /> • Need agreement on how organization will use/apply the vision <br /> • Outcome focus and measurement <br /> Issues and Priorities <br /> Each member of the governing body identified the priority issues they wished the <br /> governing body to consider as priority issues for the coming year. After all ideas were <br /> generated, there was an opportunity to take certain items off the table by placing a "veto" <br /> dot on the item -any item .that received three or more "no's" was removed from <br /> consideration in the ensuing priority discussion <br /> The complete list of all items generated is provided at the end of this document as <br /> Attachment A. <br /> <br /> Management Partners, Inc. g <br /> <br />