Eugene staff lay out long-range financial planning, warn of persistent general-fund gap

City staff presented a long-range financial planning framework and an update on Eugene’s general-fund condition at a May 11 council work session, warning that revenue growth has not kept pace with rising expenses and identifying pension costs and property-tax limits as major drivers of the structural gap.

Twila Miller, the city’s chief financial officer, told council the session begins a series of informational meetings that will feed into a two-day workshop June 30–July 1 and a broader, multi-phase planning effort to tie the strategic plan to budget decisions. "Long range financial planning is really a process used to focus the organization on long-term objectives," Miller said, describing staff work to develop a service-prioritization framework and recommended updates to financial policies.

Maurizio Badalico, who led the general-fund condition presentation, said the city is confronting a long-running imbalance…