HomeMy WebLinkAbout02/21/2017 Work Session City of Springfield
Work Session Meeting
MINUTES OF THE WORK SESSION MEETING OF
THE SPRINGFIELD CITY COUNCIL HELD
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2017
The City of Springfield Council met in a work session in the Jesse Maine Meeting Room,225 Fifth
Street, Springfield, Oregon, on Tuesday,February 21,201.7 at 6:20 p.m.,with Council President
VanGordon presiding.
ATTENDANCE
Present were Councilor President VanGordon and Councilors Wylie,Moore, Stoehr, Woodrow and
Pishioneri. Also present were Acting City Manager Anette Spickard,City Attorney Mary Bridget
Smith,City Recorder Amy Sowa and members of the staff.
Mayor Lundberg was absent, recusing herself from this meeting due to a conflict that one of the
applicants for the Budget Committee is her son.
1. Budget Committee Interviews.
Paula Davis,Budget Officer,presented the staff report on this item.
Applicants are being sought to represent Wards 1, 2, 3 where former committee members' terms
expired. The recruitment for these vacancies opened on January 9,2017 and closed on February 6,
2017. The appointee for both Ward 1 and Ward 2 will serve a three year term that will expire on
December 31,2019 and Ward 3 will serve a one year term expiring on December 3I,2017.
The Council is requested to interview three applicants. Budget Committee appointments are
scheduled to be ratified at the Regular Session Meeting on March 6, 2017.
The Council chose the questions they would ask of each applicant:
1. Why are you interested in serving on/continuing to serve on the Budget Committee?
(Councilor VanGordon)
2. Describe your professional and personal experience as it relates to your desire to become a
committee member.(Councilor Moore)
3. Describe your familiarity with the City's budget. (Councilor Woodrow)
4. While all of Springfield services seem to have strong support from different areas of the
community, it is often necessary to prioritize services for budgetary reasons. How would
you go about the task of establishing priorities among services? (Councilor Pishioneri)
5. Often times the members of the Budget Committee have different opinions on how the
citizens' money should be spent. What is your experience with working as a member of a
diverse group and helping to ensure that all opinions are heard and considered?(Councilor
Pishioneri)
6. The Budget Committee meets on Tuesdays in April and May, generally for a total of four
or five meetings. The meetings start at 5:30 or 6:00 and usually last three hours. There is
occasionally a mid-year meeting in December or January.Will you be able to meet the
time requirements of the Committee?(Councilor Stoehr)
City of Springfield
Council Work Session Minutes
February 21,2017.
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7. if you were on the Budget Committee and were looking at one of the City's services to
decide how much should be funded through general taxes and how much through specific
fees on customers,what questions would you want to have answered in order to make
your decision? (Councilor Wylie)
Council introduced themselves and interviewed the following candidates:
• Luke Lundberg,Ward 1
• Robert Rivas,Ward 2
• Kristin Kintigh, Ward 3
Council discussed the qualifications of each applicant.
Councilor Pishioneri said there are five positions open with three people who applied.
Ms.Davis said there were three openings for the City Budget Committee;the other two were for the
SEDA Budget Committee.
Councilor Pishioneri said he would like to extend the recruitment to try to get more applicants,and
suggested opening it up citywide if we don't get enough applicants from the specific wards.
Mr. Duey said Council policy is to appoint by Ward.
Discussion was held regarding the difficulty in getting applicants and whether or not to open it to
people outside the respective wards.
Councilor Wylie said she felt ward representatives should be the first choice.
Councilor Moore said she would like to appoint those that applied.All three heard about it through
word of mouth.
Councilor Woodrow said she is fine extending the deadline.
Councilor Wylie said they got three good applicants. She doesn't want them to get the message they
aren't acceptable if we go out for a bigger pool.
Councilor Stoehr said he had no strong thoughts either way,but agreed with Councilor Wylie's
concern about discouraging those that already applied if we extend the recruitment.
Councilor VanGordon said he is fine extending the recruitment and would like to see if there are more
choices.
Mr. Duey said for the SEDA positions, Council advised staff to go out and recruit specifically for
SEDA.
Council asked that staff relay to the applicants that they still had interest in them, but wanted to try to
get a full applicant pool for all five positions.
ADJOUt.NMENT
City of Springfield
Council Work Session Minutes
February 21,2017
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The meeting was adjourned at 7:04 p.m.
Minutes Recorder—Amy Sowa
Christine L. Lundberg
Mayor CCC//J
Attest:
Any Sow
City Recorder