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Requested Changes to 2/17/2015 Retreat Minutes {Formatted:Centered Line 32-45,page 4 Councilmember McGehee seconded those comments, and chose to look at it from the development context. Councilmember McGehee opined that it was important for residents to maintain existing amenities through the City Council's maintenance of its tax base while not hurting existing residents and when considering development. She opined that we need to figure out why we wanted to do it-a development and get a community consensus of the goal to raise the City's tax base. As another example,if the decision is for a community center,Councilmember McGehee opined that this was a different process in which one should —first going to the community to see what they wanted and how they proposed to get thcrc, thus establishing and what the priorities were in the community being served by the City Council. At that point, Councilmember McGehee opined that the City Council could then come back to make things work within that a framework of consultation, cooperation and collaboration within the community, which she saw as the HOW. Councilmember McGehee stated that she strongly supported that this type of process rather than the way the City regularly did things,such as taking ideas from a development and trying to implement them by forcing—itthe ideas on a community that dees-did not support itthem. Line 37,page 5 To build on that, Councilmember McGehee opined that the transparency piece would be to provide citizens and the public with education,background and facts about each issue in order for them to help the City Council make the right choices to meet their expectations. Line 28,Page 13 Councilmember McGehee suggested that reviewing the process to change engagement and collaboration among staff departments, coupled with proactive development, and should provide additional time on the frontend that may not prove expensive or actually cost more. Councilmember McGehee opined that much more staff time and finances had been spent to coerce or ameliorate problems due to being reactive versus proactive.