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Joint School Board No. 623/City Council Work Session Monday,June 26,2012 Page 11 Councilmember Pust concurred, noting the need not only to provide walking trails for an active senior population, and families; but also to provide access for those needing to go to and from the grocery stores. Strategic Plans Chair Gogins recognized the respective strategic plans of the City and District; and sought ad- ditional areas to help both bodies achieve their plans. City Manager Malinen noted that the City had provided the City Council's strategic directions, the document from which City Departments would work from and driving its strategic plan- ning and budgeting for the next biennial budget (2014/2015), with specific actions to further them and identify resources during 2013 for that upcoming biennial budget period. Mayor Roe noted that documents provided also a foundation on which the directive had been built, with the Mission Statement of the organization and trying to capture community aspira- tions driving attempted accomplishments and derived from the Imagine Roseville 2025 com- munity visioning process, the Parks and Recreation Master Plan process; the Comprehensive Plan update, with those statements and goals from those efforts synthesized. Mayor Roe noted those community aspirations certainly did not exclude the schools, since there were many areas of overlap intended to provide a framework for work on specific objectives over the next 2-3 years. Chair Gogins stated that, in her review of the City's website, she was impressed with and pre- viously unaware of the depth of ways the City fostered youth leadership and development; opining that she had never considered that linkage before. School Board Member Edstrom addressed the School District's technology needs; and sought clarification about access throughout and across the community for students and families when they were at home after school. Ms. Edstrom noted her interest was related to equity, since the District expected a lot from its students and families related to internet access. Dr. Thein shared aspects of the District's and City's current partnerships, as well as those an- ticipated for the future, with and through the City and making a great difference in the reliabil- ity of the internet system for staff and students. Dr. Thein further addressed the Board's work on its Mission Statement and values that was permeating the District from administrators to staff and students, with each holding the other accountable, and impacting how they treated each other and how they worked together. Dr. Thein advised that each was working hard to be models for the younger generation. While recognizing the great work done by the City in their visioning and planning documents, Dr. Thein clarified that the School District also had a different, student-based focus to provide edu- cation for all ages.