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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 25, 2014 Page 20 annual basis, and a process built in and part of staff operations with assistance by the Finance Department to individual departments. Mayor Roe, recognizing the information requests by Councilmembers McGehee, Laliberte and Willmus, suggested part of future RCA's coming for approval for purchase or implementation include, as part of the Financial Impact section, the replacement costs over twenty years and amount anticipated annually in current dollars needing to be set aside. In addition to Mayor Roe's suggestion, Councilmember Laliberte referenced past discussions on the possibility of mimicking or following the process used by the State as noted during Finance Commission interviews. As far as breaking into a City Council subcommittee, Councilmember Laliberte advised that she could support that; however, first she thought they needed to get their arms around the larger categories by sitting down with the community survey again—in work ses- sion format—looking at it from the financial perspective. Mayor Roe duly noted those suggestions for future reference. b. Finalize Discussions on the Preliminary 2015 Budget and Tax Levy City Manager Trudgeon suggested the intent of this agenda item was to allow the City Council yet another touch point before anticipated approval of the prelimi- nary 2015 levy on September 8, 2014. Mr. Trudgeon noted that staff appreciated the questions received from Councilmembers by staff to clarify issues and provide areas for future discussion. Mr. Trudgeon reviewed several refinements made by Finance Director Miller since the previous iteration; and correction and reduction on the spreadsheet from $346,000 to $325,000 for reserve use. Mr. Trudgeon ad- vised that staff was still researching the prior mention of$30,000 in reserves as part of the park maintenance position funding. Regarding whether to make up re- serves all in one year, Mr. Trudgeon responded that this was the intent, but it could be spread out over several years, and if staff understood the City Council's directive, a determination would be made in the near future how to proceed for- ward and not use reserves in 2014 and make it up in the future,. However, Mr. Trudgeon advised that staff's recommendation would be to make it up in one year to provide maximum flexibility in future years. Specific to debt service, City Manager Trudgeon referenced the table on page 2 of the RCA dated August 25, 2014, and apologized for not providing enough detail. Mr. Trudgeon advised that staff continued to refine the information used during the budget process and how best to present it to the City Council and public; and asked continued feedback from individual Councilmembers as well as the body on what level and type of information would be most helpful to them. Since the City Council continued to have questions, Mr. Trudgeon opined that staff was ob- viously still struggling to achieve the right amount of detail for them, and sug-