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City Council Strategic Planning Meeting Monday,January 30,2012 Page 19 dated January 26, 2012 (Item 9.d). Councilmember Pust sought any additional items to include or any items to be removed from individuals around the table. Councilmember Pust suggested "economic health" and "stability of property taxes" be added to the list from the survey,but not"local government management." Discussion included, whether "tax stability" fell under "economic health," or was a community aspiration; whether to include it with the list of"responsible economic en- deavors under the last aspiration; relationship to the community in general and how best to connect it; assuming opportunities or ways to finance goals as an aspiration to be en- gaged; and how to best market it to encourage and facilitate, as a City Council and City government, implementation and methods to allow those things to happen. It was the consensus to add this as a separate aspiration: "Economically Healthy with a Stable Tax Base." Councilmember Pust suggested that, with some minor tweaking, this DRAFT document prepared by Mayor Roe could become an accurate reflection of what had been learned from the community and what the City Council wanted to accomplish, as culminating from a variety of sources. With consensus of the group, Councilmember Pust volun- teered to tweaking the document based on tonight's discussion and meeting notes, to be re-presented in modified format in the near future to facilitate further discussion or ap- proval. By doing so, Councilmember Pust noted that this would allow something for in- dividual reactions and make more efficient use of everyone's time. By consensus, this process was approved. Process and Substance As the next step following those revisions, Councilmember Pust advised that she would submit those revisions to individuals through City Manager Malinen seeking their com- ments or items inadvertently missed; allowing a good final document. Councilmember Pust suggested that the group didn't meet next week, but allow sufficient time at their February 13, 2012 meeting, based on the estimated agenda time available from City Manager Malinen; with Councilmembers holding themselves accountable to accomplish the tasks at hand and commit to finishing the document. Discussion ensued on future meeting agendas; preference to accomplish the task sooner rather than later; the obvious lack of controversy in discussions while having realistic goals to ensure them coming to fruition; and seeking input from staff on the reality of staff's available hours and staffing resources based on those aspirations. At the request of Mayor Roe regarding the actual work plan, Councilmember Pust opined that it would flow from this initial list, once prioritized, and once money, human re- sources and capacity for control were addressed within that list.