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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 25,2013 Page 33 Finance Director Miller, recognizing that he apparently had a lot of work to com- plete, sought clarification of the specific City Council direction on what they were directing staff to do over the next two (2) weeks to allow the greatest efficiencies. Mayor Roe summarized those directives as follows. 1) Develop a living document, along the lines of the Rubric, from which to work and having the ability to add columns later; and including a minimum of two years comparison(2011, 2012) from previous budgets. Councilmembers concurred with that directive. 2) Staff prioritizations and joint recommendation from each Department Head and the City Manager. 3) Under personnel/budget impacts, for the first go-around, City Council direc- tion will initially be based on the strategic plan presented from the last meet- ing, and including refinements from staff and including adding outside esti- mates available from the strategic plan with those numbers available for change after prioritization and when the City Manager-recommended budget comes forward. Councilmember McGehee clarified that the first pass to the City Council would provide staff prioritization, along with the other two years budget col- umns for comparison; with revenue, personnel, and budget remaining blank at this time. Mayor Roe suggested that they could remain blank or include numbers if and when available from the strategic plan. Councilmember McGehee opined that she would prefer to have this iteration completely blank. Councilmember Laliberte offered no preference as to whether blank or not. Mayor Roe recommended that they initially be received blank. 4) A column will be available for City Council ranking. Mayor Roe noted that the initial document may need to be separate at this time; but once the City Council completed their individual ranking exercise on April 8, an average would then be available, allowing for discussion and di- recting staff to move forward for the April 15, 2013 discussion.