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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 03, 2013 Page 16 this would reduce costs for the City as well, to only have a staff person go to the site when called by those volunteers. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Trudgeon advised that a more realistic timeframe for staff to report back to the City Council would be in July of 2013 at the earliest. Councilmember McGehee noted that the City already had the document, it just needed to come up with enforcement for it. Councilmember Etten elaborated by noting the need for staff to determine how the departments would work with each other on an enforcement model. With members of the public in attendance, Councilmember McGehee suggested that the City Council hear their comments at this meeting. While Mayor Roe's intent was to hear that public comment, he prefaced those comments by advising that those comments be taken with the understanding that they were very preliminary considering there was not yet anything to comment on until provided by staff; and asked that the extent and length of those comments be respectful of the many other items on tonight's agenda. Councilmember Willmus suggested that future work sessions provide for public comment at the beginning of the meeting, no matter if an item is included on the agenda or not, rather than during discussions. Mayor Roe stated, in terms of City Council work session discussions, the public needed to understand that public testimony was being heard on conceptual versus action documents for those responses. Mayor Roe cautioned that by not having anything specific to respond to, it simply ate into the time designated and allotted for City Council and staff dialogue to move items forward. Public Comment Jody McElroy,905 Millwood Avenue Ms. McElroy expressed her five (5) major concerns or comments, tying into to- night's discussion, as included in previous written comment provided at the May 20, 2013 regular business meeting. Ms. McElroy opined that having an open house would have been helpful to their neighborhood, based on the time available for their notification and review of the preliminary plat, creating a huge learning curve for lay people before the Planning Commission's public hearing. Ms. McElroy stated that the process had caused her trust in City staff to be waylaid; as the plat had been recommended and ap- proved by the Planning Commission without tree preservation included, not only for the development site itself but the adjacent properties, including no identifica-