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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 09, 2017 Page 14 end of the month may have a significant delay for staff or other situations needing inore immediate review and approval. Councihneinber Etten suggested a two- week review for the City Council depending on how that interacted with the City Council schedule. Councilmember Etten stated that he tried to avoid inalcing too inany changes since the meeting ininutes served as a general recorcl; but could agree with the two-week time frame. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, City Manager Trudgeon advised that while there inay be soine issues created with the 60-day land use case review timeframe per state statute, the most iinportant action was the adoption of related resolutions rather than the actual meeting minutes. City Attorney Hartmann concurred with City Manager Trudgeon that resohitions were separate from the meeting minutes and therefore a delay in minute approval but not resolutions should be problematic. Councilmember Willmus opined that staff would need to be cognizant of those land use situations if the City Council approves departing frorn the current prac- tice of approval at the next meeting. While not having a history of why draft ininutes are not inchided in the agenda packet, and unsure if he wanted to get into that, Councilmember Willinus stated his preference for minimizing the delay, even though he would support a two-week turnaround, his personal preference would be to have it quicker than that. Since he tended to perfonn the overall review of draft ineeting mintttes, Mayor Roe recognized that it required a quick turnaround, and opined there would be benefits with more tiine for review, inchiding for the Recording Secretary to sub- mit the initial draft, and then for staff to provide an adininistrative review (e.g. grammar corrections and naine, address, and/or date verifications) before being provided to the City Council. Mayor Roe opined that the City Council then wouldn't have to focus on that as much, but could instead allow departments to review their portions of minutes before they were submitted for review to individ- ual council members. Mayor Roe clarified that he ineant this staff review to be going on at the saine time and not a step-by-step process from the City Manager, then to one department, then another; but to have each department review their particular areas for accuracy, with more eyes for factual corrections. Mayor Roe noted this would still provide individual council members to correct their state- inents accordingly, while staff would have provided its initial graminatical review administratively, with departments reviewing actual facts and figiires. Councilmember McGehee acknowledged the heavy lifting provided by Mayor Roe in reviewing meeting minutes at this time; and advised that she typically re- viewed her portion of ininutes to ensure that they accurately and clearly reflected her statements. However, Councilmember McGehee noted that it was clear from Mayor Roe's review that he read the entire document. Councilrnember McGehee