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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 26,2012 Page 8 However, Councilmember McGehee questioned the bullet point (line 25) of At- tachment D that included "...mentally active and healthy..." questioning how the City could possibly meet that aspiration since it was an individual issue. Councilmember Johnson opined that the community could aspire toward that goal. Councilmember McGehee opined that the other things were individual goals but overarching in Attachment A; however, she still preferred Attachment D, with the exception on the mental health statement. Mayor Roe provided his perspective of Attachment D in relation to having a City and City Council mission statement separately, expressing his preference that the City Council as part of City government, and in Attachment A, the mission state- ment made reference to both staff and the City Council, recognizing their differ- ent roles; and then leading to aspirations. Mayor Roe expressed his support for Attachment A as a starting point; with his secondary support for the mission statement in Attachment B, suggesting that the two be melded; leading into aspirations similar to those of Attachment B. Re- garding the aspiration language of Attachments C and D, Mayor Roe recognized the need to be more concise; however, he had specifically chosen certain words, and those provided in Attachments C and D didn't serve the same purpose in cap- turing the meaning of what he was attempting to accomplish in his language, and those things from the Imagine Roseville 2025 and the Parks and Recreation Mas- ter Plan. Councilmember McGehee noted that neighborhoods would be physically con- nected through parks and trails and technologically connected through e-mails, etc. Councilmember McGehee suggested that while overall they could be provid- ed with more opportunities to be cohesive, they could also draw together as a group to form their own sub-community as parallel structures. Councilmember McGehee volunteered to work with Mayor Roe on further wordsmithing the doc- ument. Related to the "physically and mentally active and health; and..." statement on Attachment B, Mayor Roe noted that this language was taken directly from past documents for a healthy community,both physically and mentally. Councilmember Willmus, speaking to Attachment B's aspirations, opined that he could see the parks function in most of those items; and concurred with Mayor Roe on spelling it out and specifying it; and supported the aspirations outlined in Attachment B, including keeping physically and mentally health. However, Councilmember Willmus advised that he was willing to compromise on the for- mat of the mission statement itself.