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HRA Meeting Minutes – Tuesday, July 21, 2015 Page 10 1 By consensus, Item “I” was reworded to include: “Assess the Living Smarter Home and 2 Garden Fair for alternate delivery models and options…” 3 4 General Comments 5 Chair Maschka stated he was not troubled with retaining all five of these goals, in addressing 6 the next steps and where the HRA wanted to go in the next four years as a viable objective. 7 8 After further discussion and consideration, Ms. Kelsey opined that the HRA had too much on 9 its plate now, and if it intended to retain all five goals and various initiatives. 10 11 Member Masche concurred that, based on his review of meeting minutes from the Strategic 12 Planning exercise that he’d been unable to attend, this was too much to accomplish in four 13 years, and needed more distilling and condensing those items overlapping depending on how 14 they were interpreted. 15 16 Member Etten noted that while some could be moved to the background, others would require 17 a massive amount of work; and suggested prioritization at this point to force individual HRA 18 members to define what was important and what was not. 19 20 Member Masche opined that appetite to pursue all goals listed was part of the maturation of the 21 HRA as it continued to grow, but agreed the focus needed to be narrowed to be realistic. 22 23 Chair Maschka agreed with the assessment of Member Etten that some areas would continue, 24 but not add any new workload to the HRA and staff, while others would require considerable 25 staff time (e.g. infill lots), and if established as a priority going forward, needed to be analyzed 26 to understand how that affected other work. 27 28 Ms. Raye referenced a comment of Mayor Roe at the City Council meeting that the HRA 29 should do what they needed to do to accomplish goals, and if necessary to apply their 30 maximum levy authority or obtain additional skill sets not currently available, the HRA should 31 make that case to the City Council. Ms. Raye noted whether that included doing infill projects 32 or site acquisition for commercial//businesses pieces, it would add capital or a percentage of 33 time that grew back into the bricks and mortar area; making priority setting the obvious step. 34 35 Chair Maschka noted the overlap with economic development efforts of some components as 36 well. 37 38 Member Wall noted the need to plug goals into the budget as some point as percentages are 39 allocated based on priorities. 40 41 Goal Prioritization Exercise 42 As individual members addressed their priorities for each goal, Ms. Raye noted this not only 43 forced the board to define their priorities or areas of focus, but also gave staff an opportunity to 44 let the board know how and if they could accomplish those goals and provide a point of 45 discussion when conflicts occurred. 46 47 Member Masche noted many initiatives were process/procedure oriented in nature versus 48 actual policy issues. 49 50 Ms. Kelsey also noted that many of the initiatives only required a financial support aspect 51 without staff time by supporting Community Development Department programs with 52 funding. Ms. Kelsey noted some items budgeted for may not have line items on the current 53 budget or defined location for HRA dollars. 54