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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 7,2014 Page 24 would be an unusual task to assign the City Manager, when it should be part of the Park& Recreation and Ramsey County's role and basically out of his control. Councilmember Willmus opined that this could be delegated by the City Manager as applicable. Councilmember McGehee advised that she took that out of the specific problem with stormwater, not just in specific problem areas, but city-wide, especially in bad filtration areas; preferably as a separate bullet point. The City Council had no objection. In referencing the third bullet point to "Provide easily understandable budget in- formation to the public," versus her revised language to "Provide clear and ac- cessible budget information to the public" in the first goal to "Improve the Delivery of Information to the Public," Councilmember McGehee pointed out that the original language was not realistic, as not everyone in the community would understand the budget information, and that was not in the control of the City Manager. However, by making the language read, "clear and accessible" as she suggested, Councilmember McGehee opined that this was more realistic, and part of the task of the Finance Commission. Councilmembers Etten and Laliberte offered support of that revised language. By consensus, the revised language offered by Councilmember McGehee was af- firmed. Given the number of changes, Mayor Roe suggested a revised document be re- turned as a Consent Item at the next meeting. Discussion ensued regarding language of the fourth bullet point under the goal to "Improve the Quality and Delivery of City Programs," related to departments working with the Volunteer Coordinator as suggested by Councilmember McGe- hee versus current language for the City Manager to "Work with Volunteer Coor- dinator to utilize volunteers in city departments and into more programs." Mayor Roe expressed his support for that language as currently proposed in the Sub- committee's Attachment A, since the Volunteer Coordinator was a direct report to the City Manager. Create Operational Efficiencies Councilmember McGehee suggested simplifying the first bullet point, striking language as proposed in her version of Attachment A; however, Councilmember Laliberte expressed her strong interest in retaining that extra language to continue emphasizing that the City Council had made a conscious decision to include Communication as a function of the Administration Department, and her concerns