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Attachment B Regular City Council Meeting Monday, June 22, 2015 Page 21 Regarding infrastructure and housing, Councilmember Wilhnus 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 priarities identified as "Housing and Redevelopment," and "Infra- structure Sustainability." Related to community outreach, Mayor Roe agreed with Councilmember Laliber- te that since a survey was already being done periodically, there was no need to stress it as part of this document. Regarding volunteer opportunities, Mayor Roe noted the target to increase volun- teer engagement or teams, for him the strategic initiative was to figure out those strategies, as well as engaging underrepresented populations, which the CEC was already looking at and how best to measure that. Specific to move-up housing, Mayor Roe reminded his colleagues that the number of 20 additional units was a starting point for discussions at the Retreat, and initia- tives may be to pursue applicable initiatives versus an actual program.