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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,February 25,2013 Page 23 budget was followed, and regardless of election cycles, bur providing a mecha- nism for that oddity. Mayor Roe suggested further contemplation on an appropriate term; however, he spoke in opposition to the term"forecast." Mr. Miller reiterated his cautions and previous rationale provided by staff last year in the failure of an annual budget and decisions made today for only one year without further advanced planning, allowing for a different decision-making cul- ture over time. Mr. Miller opined that the Council would begin to act differently in its decision-making as it moved from short-term to long-term planning, and further opined that the decision-making by the body would eventually evolve into a different level of commitment in that long-term planning versus the failures of an annual budget process. Councilmember Etten suggested, from the strategic plan perspective, a longer term view for four(4) years seemed possible in achieving goals. Mayor Roe cautioned that the strategic plan is not written in stone, and many of the goals may never find their way into a budget; and suggested care be taking in not over-generalizing the strategic plan as a long-term budget, while still allowing that long-term look. Councilmember Laliberte opined that she thought everyone would agree to look forward, with improvements put in place beyond an annual budget process; and using that foundation, an annual budget may not fail as it had in the past. Mayor Roe reiterated statutory requirements for the City Council to adopt an an- nual budget. Mr. Miller noted previous budget priorities and rankings over the last few years, and reviewed how individual and composite scores were developed and reviewed, allowing for multiple iterations and a very transparent process and budget alloca- tion based on those priorities. Noting the lack of a citizen composite rank on materials provided, Councilmem- ber Laliberte questioned staff's rationale for not including it. Mr. Miller advised that the materials presented tonight were just a small portion of the entire CPMP and were only representative, with the citizen composite rank provided with the next view. Councilmember McGehee opined that she thought a lot of this was stupid last year and still did since it was straightforward to rank basic services (e.g. emer-