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Regular City Council Meeting <br /> Monday,April 8, 2013 <br /> Page 10 <br /> tions for each department are the amount paid for employees to do their job and <br /> the materials needed to do that job. <br /> Acting Mayor Willmus opined, from his personal perspective, that he found this <br /> an interesting exercise as he reviewed his priorities for the coming year; whether <br /> or not it steered in him one direction or another. Acting Mayor Willmus ques- <br /> tioned the slight increase from 2012 to 2013 in the "elections" category and why <br /> more was for the coming year, when Ramsey County had been hired to perform <br /> the majority of those duties. Acting Mayor Willmus requested more background <br /> on the City's role or whether Ramsey County needed to take on a greater role. <br /> City Manager Malinen advised that those amounts represented the City's costs <br /> with Ramsey County, with City staff still having some work to perform on-site <br /> during the final weeks of an election,but further advised that those costs were rel- <br /> atively nominal,but required statutorily. <br /> Councilmember Laliberte thanked staff for providing this additional reference <br /> point for her review. <br /> Finance Director Chris Miller noted the next step in the process would be for <br /> Councilmembers to perform their rankings if they were comfortable with the pro- <br /> posed rubric and ranking criteria. Mr. Miller proposed that he e-mail worksheets <br /> to individual Councilmembers, and at City Council discretion, they could then <br /> continue discussion of their individual and/or average rankings at the April 15 or <br /> April 22, 2013 meeting. <br /> Councilmember Etten noted the advantage of doing so at the April 15 meeting <br /> versus the April 22 meeting, as Mayor Roe would only be available on the former <br /> date. <br /> Discussion ensued on individual versus average rankings. <br /> By consensus, Councilmembers decided to share individual rankings as well as <br /> average rankings, with those individual rankings to be returned to staff in time to <br /> be provided as a bench handout at the Monday, April 15, 2013 meeting, allowing <br /> individual Councilmembers the weekend to finalize their rankings prior to submit- <br /> ting them to staff for averaging and processing. <br /> Acting Mayor Willmus opined that he would personally like to see this infor- <br /> mation come back to the full City Council, and in a format conducive to a <br /> roundtable discussion. <br /> In reviewing the remaining budget calendar and process, Mr. Miller noted that <br /> May 13, 2013 was scheduled for a budget hearing to allow public comment to the <br />