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Governance committee considers tiered process for council policy requests to city staff
Summary
Staff presented models from Oregon cities and Minneapolis to create a tiered process for council requests to city administration, proposing informal requests, legislative directives and major resolutions with aims of transparency and protecting staff capacity.
Council staff and aides presented options Oct. 20 to the governance committee for a tiered process that would govern how council offices request staff time and administrative support for legislative work.
Aubrey Chen, a council aide, and Craig Cook, a council policy analyst, described a model that separates informal requests from formal legislative directives and major resolutions. The presentation drew on practices in Oregon cities—Salem’s one-hour threshold, Eugene’s two-hour rule and Minneapolis’s three-category model—and recommended a system that tracks informal requests, scopes legislative directives at the…
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