Improving the accountability & transparency of city government
In the December 15, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, reporter Christian Hill writes:
Two Eugene city councilors want to hear City Manager Jon Ruiz’s response to how city staff missed a legally required deadline after a ballot measure proposing the establishment of an elected city auditor qualified for the May deadline.
The measure’s backer, City Accountability, has criticized the city’s misstep. …
In the December 14, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, reporter Christian Hill writes:
The proposed Eugene city auditor’s office would have sweeping authority to examine not only the operations and spending of the city’s municipal government, but also the Eugene Water & Electric Board, the Lane Transit District and even private garbage haulers, according to a lead advocate of the measure. …
In the December 12, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, reporter Christian Hill writes:
Eugene’s elected leaders steered clear Monday of taking a stance on the May ballot measure to create an office of an elected independent city auditor—at least at this time. …
In the December 7, 2017, issue of the Eugene Weekly, reporter Ted Taylor writes:
The question is no longer whether Eugene needs a performance auditor; it’s who that auditor will answer to. The group City Accountability has a measure on the May ballot for an independent, elected auditor, and the Eugene City Council is deciding whether it will add a competing measure for an appointed performance auditor on the ballot. …
In the November 22, 2017, issue of the Eugene Weekly, reporter Max Thornberry writes:
The Eugene City Council delayed on a motion to create an appointed independent office of the city auditor after a Monday, Nov. 20, work session that also included a presentation by the mayor’s performance auditor study group. …
In the November 21, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, reporter Christian Hill writes:
Eugene city councilors had their first public discussion as a group Monday about a measure on the May ballot that would create an independent, elected city auditor’s office. …
In the November 19, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, reporter Christian Hill writes:
Eugene city councilors on Monday night will discuss their response to a measure creating the office of an elected independent city auditor that voters will decide on in May. …
In the October 12, 2017, issue of the Register-Guard, reporter Christian Hill writes:
A group seeking to establish an independently elected Eugene city auditor said Wednesday it will submit almost 13,000 signatures toward qualifying the measure for the May ballot.
Members of City Accountability said they are certain they have enough valid signatures to get the measure, an amendment to the city charter, onto the ballot. …
On October 12, 2017, Brian Bull of KLCC reported:
A group pushing for an independent, elected city auditor for the City of Eugene say they’ve enough signatures to put it up to voters next year. …
In the October 12, 2017, issue of the Eugene Weekly, staff write:
The group City Accountability announced it has gathered 13,000 signatures (only 8,090 were needed) to get a citizens’ initiative on the May 18 ballot to amend the Eugene Charter to establish an office of an independent, elected city auditor. The group turns in the signatures 11 am Thursday, Oct. 12, at the City Manager’s Office at the Lane County Public Service Building.