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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 22,2011 Page 7 Mayor Roe noted that Attachment B-2 provide a detailed listing by program; and noted his confusion in attempting to cross-reference that listing with Attachment C and the revised City Manager recommended budget versus the original City Manager-recommended budget's program cuts. City Manager Malinen reviewed Attachment A, and his highlighting of those pro- grams not being cut in his revised City Manger recommended budget versus those that he was recommending remain reduced or eliminated. Mr. Malinen advised that any apparent discrepancies were largely due to interpretation from a broad term versus differences in allocating those costs between 2011 and 2012; some of which would be offset with other increases; and provided no full reconciliation of what went up or down; with cost allocations possibly changing among programs. City Manager Malinen opined that the best way for the City Council to look at the documents was with a broader approach. Mayor Roe questioned if this was based on other pluses and/or minuses being re- lated to shifting or reallocation of those items. Finance Director Miller concurred, noting that throughout all programs, one main thing, as determined between the City Council and staff several meetings ago, was that anything considered capital but previously embedded into the budget (e.g. any depreciated items) became capital for 2012; but clarified that not all were done in 2011. Mr. Miller emphasized that, the intent of the August 8 and August 22, 2011 staff reports was to provide cleaner pieces for the City Council to see the larger changes from one fiscal year to the next; with those items highlighted in City Manager Malinen's August 4, 2011 memorandum rather than in providing a line item reconciliation that would prove too time-consuming and potentially bog Councilmembers down in a lot of minutia. Councilmember Pust questioned if her understanding was that it would not be a productive use of City Council time ask questions on Attachment B-2 versus At- tachment C, when Attachment C provided the explanation due to items being counted differently from year to year. Finance Director Miller concurred with Councilmember Pust's assessment; and suggested that the major program changes identified by City Manager Malinen in his revised City-Manager recommended budget were those that would be affected by the levy as detailed by City Manager Malinen at the August 8, 2011 meeting and corresponding reports, as highlighted. Mayor Roe advised that he was having trouble tracking on the August 4, 2011 memorandum and highlighted document attached to the August 8, 2011 RCA, and specifically which programs those items were coming from; whether the decision was based on program ratings by the City Council and augmented by survey re-