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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, June 22,2015 Page 21 Regarding infrastructure and housing, Councilmember Willmus noted the need for them to remain,but suggested more focus of the City Council and their citizen advisory commissions in order to attain the direction being sought. One area of disagreement Councilmember Willmus noted as addressed by Coun- cilmember McGehee included targets being static, but from his perspective they should be continually moving. As an example, when the new housing units come online as part of the Dale Street project, Councilmember Willmus opined the need remained to continue evaluating housing needs. Councilmember McGehee clarified that was not the intent of her comments, and agreed with Councilmember Willmus' perspective that they continued to move; and would constantly be in flux. Mayor Roe While in agreement with a lot of things already discussed and the common view- points expressed, Mayor Roe questioned the need to rank the priorities by num- ber, but to simply recognize them as THE priorities with no one more important than another. Mayor Roe spoke in support of streamlining and reducing the doc- ument. Specific to organizational effectiveness, Mayor Roe agreed this was more inter- nal, even though the goal was to have the City Manager more involved, it may be of lower priority for the City Council and therefore removed as part of this docu- ment. Mayor Roe suggested combining organizational effectiveness with civic engage- ment re-titled as "Community Outreach/Engagement," and then have two other categories and priorities identified as "Housing and Redevelopment," and "Infra- structure Sustainability." Councilmember Laliberte spoke at some length about the five priorities and initia- tives, targets and measures. In the end, she recommended that civic engagement, organizational effectiveness, and effective governance be eliminated from the document because that work is already being done by departments and commis- sions and our City Manager. She recommended that the Housing and Redevelop- ment priorities and Infrastructure Sustainability priorities remain, but more work be done on the initiatives and targets/measures. Regarding effective governance, if combined with civic engagement, Mayor Roe opined that only the area of process transparency be retained and development of ways to improve it and hold the City Council and staff accountable to ongoing improvement.