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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 23,2012 Page 23 Councilmember Johnson sought to clarify, for the public's edification, that if the City of Arden Hills were to exit this JPA, they were required to provide a one year notice. Mr. Schwartz advised that the City of Roseville had requested that provision, knowing that the Engineer hired would have been solely funded through the JPA. At the request of Councilmember Johnson as to whether Arden Hills had provided any notice to-date, Mr. Schwartz advised that the only notice had been verbal, al- lowing for this discussion with the City Council before additional action was tak- en by either City. Pending tonight's direction, Mr. Schwartz advised that staff of both cities would meet, and negotiated revised JPA terms, as Arden Hills re- mained interested in continuing GIS services from Roseville. Councilmember Willmus spoke in support of this request; but questioned if there were other JPA's with Arden Hills and whether any additional problems may be indicated. Finance Director Miller advised that the only other JPA was for Information Technology (IT) services, and there appeared to be no other issues of which staff was aware. Councilmember Pust opined that this was a definite loss to Arden Hills,but a gain for Roseville. Pust moved, Johnson seconded, authorizing a staff engineer position in the Public Works Department with funding from the Water, Sanitary Sewer, and Storm Sewer Funds beginning July 1, 2012; and until that time, the City of Arden Hills would continue to fund this position in accordance with the provisions of the JPA. Roll Call Ayes: Pust; Willmus; Johnson; McGehee; and Roe. Nays: None. d. Discuss a Process for 2013/2014 Strategic Planning City Manager Malinen initiated this discussion on how the City Council wished to proceed with the upcoming strategic planning sessions, noting that all Depart- ments had been charged with completing strategic plan and defining broad areas on which to focus on 2013, 2014 and beyond. Mr. Malinen noted that Cobalt consulting services, had worked with Department Heads in how to take data from the 2011 community survey and translate it into action at a policy and administrative/staff level. Mr. Malinen suggested that the City Council may wish to include a similar and brief exercise as part of their stra- tegic planning, since this was not part of Cobalt's original detailed presentation, and only included in their written report, as strategic priorities, included in to-