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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 22, 2015 Page 24 As a result of recent neighborhood issues, Ms. Erickson noted she had found out she lives in a great neighborhood, and asked that the City Council and staff also look beyond the obvious perception of community engagement. Mayor Roe thanked the public for their verbal and written comments throughout this discussion process. Laliberte moved, Willmus seconded, renaming the document to "City Council Priority Plan — 2015-2016," finishing out this year and tweaking it as needed in 2016; and adopt only two strategic priorities or goals entitled "Housing and Rede- velopment," and"Infrastructure Sustainability." At the request of Mayor Roe, Councilmembers Laliberte and Willmus confirmed that this would retain key outcome indicators as currently written. Councilmember McGehee offered an amendment to incorporate her four goals as previously mentioned. Councilmember Laliberte opined that those would come into the targets and initi- atives yet to be rewritten or refined. Councilmember McGehee noted the public comment reference and upcoming training sponsored by the Human Rights Commission for community training ad- dressing ethics and professional conduct. Mayor Roe suggested that as an additional item, at the discretion of the body, fol- lowing this discussion. Councilmember McGehee reiterated the importance of ethics as an important part of civic engagement when citizens bring things forward and the City Council's current response is only"thank you." As part of this overall process, Councilmember Etten stated his enjoyment of the robust discussion resulting in the community and among Councilmembers, as well as tonight's discussion. However, Councilmember Etten opined that he was still not ready to let go of the third piece of the document; and therefore offered a friendly amendment to include a strategic priority for "cultural change" and how best to communicate and provide information as a City. Etten moved, Roe seconded, an amendment to include a third category entitled "Community Outreach/Communication," and including process discussion from the current "Effective Governance"priority for process transparency and other in- dicators (KOI's) involving participation of other areas from the current "Civic Engagement" category; and those areas that fall into the CEC realm for further re- finement.