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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April 15, 2013 Page 16 Coordinator, and questioned whether it was necessary to have a coordinator to remain an efficient recycling community. Mayor Roe opined that charges may be incurred elsewhere for a net balance. Councilmember Laliberte noted that some things became problematic for her ranking since she didn't know if her endorsement was also endorsing a dollar amount, since ranking didn't connect to dollar amounts. Councilmember Laliber- te admitted her confusion with that aspect of the exercise; and suggested that it would be helpful to her if there was another iteration of the number of FTE's re- quired for each category to determine FTE's versus "stuff." For efficiency pur- poses, Councilmember Laliberte recognized that significant job sharing occurred, but a differentiation between personnel and stuff was necessary for her ranking. While Mayor Roe noted that information was available by program in background materials provided elsewhere, in terms of this document, Councilmember Willmus noted an overall lack of correlation between individual components and how they interacted with other components city-wide. Mayor Roe clarified that this was not intended as an exercise in budgeting, simply ranking, and while not blind, it was for the purpose of deciding what was most important by priority ranking, thereby feeding staff decisions on staffing levels, position grades and various duties of those positions. Citing another personal frustration with the exercise as she reviewed the calendar steps, Councilmember Laliberte noted there was nothing in the steps, but should be, an opportunity to roll up sleeves to determine efficiencies and/or areas to cut; and she questioned where in the process the City Council learned what they could do without, change or adjust accordingly. City Manager Malinen noted that some of those things had already been ad- dressed over the last few years; and while not necessarily big changes, they were dictated to some extent on where City Council priorities indicated. Mr. Malinen noted another part of the discussion was Strategic Plan initiatives needing better definition or potential changes or efficiencies. Recognizing Councilmember Laliberte's frustrations, Mr. Malinen advised that this exercise would now provide a status quo base line from which to work based on those assumptions, with indi- vidual departments of the city attempting further efficiencies that would impact the overall budget based on composite rankings. Mayor Roe referenced one-time costs from 2013 that would not be carried for- ward to 2014, as part of the process requested in past years by Councilmember Pust. Mayor Roe opined that this particular portion of the process may have been shortchanged in past years; but requested more detail be provided for the City Council and public by each Department and the City Manager, before the City Manager-recommended budget came forward, specific to new State mandates,