The Mayor, hand-picked by the nice-but-outrageously inept Piercy, is very wrong to oppose or attempt to scuttle this auditor initiative. For whatever reason, the Eugene City Council and Manager have made many, many poor decisions these past several years that have cost the taxpayers millions of dollars. It also has bypassed the citizens in okaying huge projects w/out asking their approval (several times after test polls showed their great unpopularity). 
Ruiz has shown persistent hubris and worse on many key issues: does any Eugenean who has been paying attention think he puts citizens' needs and wishes ahead of a particular architectural firm or developers' wishes? 
I urge voters to remember the police auditor. Once, for a very short while, it actually functioned as designed: then, the firings occurred. For a city auditor effectively to function, she must entirely be independent!
The cruel and destructive joke that is our governance must stop.