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City Council Strategic Planning Meeting Monday,January 30,2012 Page 15 Goal #1: Increase efforts toward business and economic development. Mayor Roe noted the need remove perceptions of community businesses that the City did not care about them, while balancing resources among the business and residential communities. Goal #2: Increase connectivity and improve transportation. Mayor Roe questioned how best to allocate lobbying efforts and resources to achieve the best influence and balance those resources with local control. From the pathway perspective, Mayor Roe noted that build out for the Pathway and Parks Master Plans required substantial resources for development. Goals #3 and 4: Support the senior community and services to those in need. Mayor Roe noted the importance of having connections through the community for seniors, as well as working partnerships with their local government. Mayor Roe opined that both provided high impact on individual lives, and expressed his confidence that the City could manage it with available resources. Goal #5: Refine performance measurement system. Mayor Roe noted that this was a difficult thing for the public to be aware of,but should be quantifiable when results were known based on perception of the community. Mayor Roe noted that City Manager Malinen had been attempting to implement that concept into how the City did its business. Goal #6: Support civic engagement efforts. Mayor Roe noted that this also fit in- to Local Government Management, but how and how much from a resource per- spective still needed to be determined. d. Councilmember Johnson, continued (Attachment Item 9.c, dated January 30, 2012) Related to Control, Impact, and Resources, Councilmember Johnson noted that all the items on his written submission remained relevant. Regarding continuing the CIP Task Force, Councilmember Johnson noted that some of the items remained to be completed: Parks and Fire Station capital needs, since they were both pending last year when the original CIP was developed. Councilmember Johnson noted that the Street Replacement Program had a deficit coming in four (4) years and would have great economic impact if the City didn't meet that goal; with a strategy needed to be put in place this year to gain momen- tum in correcting it. Councilmember Johnson referenced the recent in-depth and thoughtful presenta- tion by Ms. Sarah Barsel and the need to support education and assistance for the community's senior population based on those efforts to-date and as projected,