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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,February 27, 2012 Page 9 Lt. Rosand noted receipt of an e-mail from Bill Youngquist providing the history of the annual request. Mayor Roe opened and closed the Public Hearing at approximately 7:00 p.m., with no one appearing for or against. 12. Business Items (Action Items a. Approve Lake Owasso Water Ski Course and Jump Johnson moved, Pust seconded, directing staff to advise the Ramsey County Sher- iff of the outcome of tonight's Public Hearing soliciting input on the proposed Lake Owasso Safe Boating Association's and their permit to the Ramsey County Sherriff's office for a water ski course and jump on Lake Owasso during the 2012 season. Roll Call Ayes: Johnson; Pust; McGehee; Willmus; and Roe. Nays: None. For the benefit of the listening audience in attendance, Mayor Roe again announced that the Wal- Mart discussion had been deferred until March 26, 2012. b. Receive Performance Measures Report For informational purpose only, City Manager Malinen provided 2011 Perfor- mance Measurement Results to complement existing reports and statistics used in decision-making; and as detailed in the RCA dated February 27, 2012. Discussion included the purpose of the measurements and rationale for compari- sons with the City of Woodbury based on the challenges in finding any interest of peer communities in participating in the process; and the City of Woodbury's original initiative in establishing the measurement categories currently used by Roseville. Councilmember Pust opined that, with three (3) years of data now available for comparison, it was now time to take the next step and have department goals es- tablished to achieve community-wide goals based on budgeting and service lev- els. Councilmember Pust specifically requested that staff establish a deadline for moving to that next step and how they proposed to achieve those goals, to be pro- vided in the next few weeks/months for best management practices by category. Mayor Roe noted that such an exercise would be part of the City Manager goals and their relationship with performance measures. City Manager Malinen advised that staff would be working toward such a step in the near future.