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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 09, 2012 Page 11 At the request of Councilmember Johnson, City Manager Malinen clarified that this was a biennial community survey. Mr. Miller continued to review the various components of the 2012 and 2013 cal- endars and foundational initiatives, including setting priorities, long-term capital improvement planning (CIP), and development of financial policies and next year's budget cycle for the biennial budget process. Mr. Miller reiterated the im- portance of not going backwards, and for the City Council and staff to discipline themselves accordingly, and make the best of existing resources, even though everything laid out twelve (12)months ago may not be successfully achieved. Mayor Roe observed that this would require allocating resources; and perhaps pushing goals and/or projects out to remain within budget parameters. City Manager Malinen noted that strategic planning for 2012 then became the 2014-2015 biennial budgets, as discussions were pursued in 2013 to move for- ward as additional information was found. Mr. Miller noted the program relations as building blocks as in indicated in At- tachment A, gleaned from broad strategic planning to budget adoption and se- quential steps to get that end result. Mr. Miller opined that this would assure the community of the commitment of the City Council and staff. City Manager Malinen noted that this PMP was created through the last 4-5 years culmination of staff instituting strategic plans on a department-wide nature; ex- pansion of the CIP; and opined that development of this regular cycle would con- tinue to improve the entire process. Councilmember McGehee expressed her appreciation to Mr. Miller for the format of the PMP and calendar cycles; and as part of this attempt by staff to continue clearly communicating its management plan to the City Council and the overall community. Councilmember McGehee noted that, as laid out on the first page, the processes were transparent, and served to emphasize the City Council and staff's service to its stakeholders. Councilmember McGehee noted that the PMP still needed to be customized for the City of Roseville and provided suggestions to Mr. Miller regarding what she would like to see included in such a customization. She read from the document, "Simply superimposing a performance management process onto a traditionally managed organization may sound good, but in practive, it is not likely to make any difference. To make real improvements, organizational culture must also be addressed." She also noted the remarks regarding staff training, pointing out that it had not been a high priority for the Council in the past, but that the Council should be aware of it as part of this process. Referencing page 27, which address- es issues of managing the process, managing the staff, and managing relation-