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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 22, 2015 Page 25 To clarify the amendment, Mayor Roe reworded it as intended to add a third pri- ority entitled, "Community Outreach/Communication," incorporating the process transparency KOI category from "Effective Governance," and participation by underrepresented populations KOI category as part of"Civic Engagement" at a minimum. Councilmember Laliberte expressed her interest in working more closely with cit- izen advisory commissions on guiding principles to use in working on priorities, not as a checklist but guiding those things not being tasked to advisory commis- sions. Councilmember McGehee spoke in opposition to the amendment, agreeing with Councilmember Laliberte that the original motion presented a more manageable and cleaner approach, while still allowing inclusion of those other items as ad- dressed by Councilmember Laliberte. Councilmember McGehee expressed her preference for a clean, comprehensive document. Councilmember Etten stated his rationale for including the amendment was based on the reasons outlined by Councilmember McGehee; opining that it included in the document it allowed for regular updates and tracking versus a checklist. Councilmember Willmus stated his concern was even in providing charges to citi- zen advisory commissions, as a body the CEC incorporated a good group of peo- ple that he would like to allow an opportunity to take this document and see what they returned with versus the City Council now establishing its own KOI and tar- gets. Councilmember Willmus suggested allowing the CEC to bring it back; and therefore would not support the friendly amendment at this time; concurring with the two items in the original motion as moved by Councilmembers Laliberte and McGehee, and including the four goals stated by Councilmember McGehee and embedded in each goal. • Mayor Roe spoke in support of the amendment, stating that the priority of this City Council is to improve communications through the process of transparency, and nothing talked about the targets in the original, thus the added third category included. As noted by Councilmember Etten, if additional KOI are received from the CEC or others, they can be added in, but this amendment to the motion re- flected the February Retreat and subsequent discussions, and needed to be amend- ed to the original motion to adequately address the priorities of this City Council and the City organization. Councilmember Laliberte stated she would not support the amendment for the main reason that this direction had already been given and requests that these things happen outside of this document.