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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 09, 2017 Page 15 agreed that it would prove helpful for the Recording Secretary and city staff to have more tiine for processing meeting minutes upfront, thus allowing individual council members more time to review their portions. Given that, Councilmember Willmiis agreed with this approach, stating that he was cautiously optimistic that the City Council would still have the meeting minutes back in tiine to avoid rehashing them at meeting if and when they were delayed. Mayor Roe asked his colleagues if the meeting ininutes were delivered to the City Council by the Friday before packet preparation for the next ineeting, if that would allow them time to respond to staff with any changes by the next Wednes- day. Without objecton, council members agreed that was a reasonable timefraine: two week meeting minute approval with submission to the City Council after initial staff review by Friday and return by individLial council members by the following Wednesday to be included in the agenda packet materials for that upcoming meet- ing. Without objection, council inembers also agreed that this discussion would inform any twealcs before formally adopting into the Rules of Procedures. Consent A eg nda City Manager Tri.idgeon suggested the City Council consider asking questions on rotttine items placed on the consent agenda by contacting staff before the meeting. Mr. Tnidgeon suggested the only exception should be to reinove an item if an in- dividual council inember wanted to vote against a particular item. Mr. Trudgeon advised that his suggestions as detailed in the RCA were a result of consulting with his peers on their consent agenda practices, as well as in consideration of his suminarizing each item, which could also be eliminated at the City Council's di- rection. Mr. Trudgeon suggested some change in the current format and practices as outlined in the RCA. In consideration of openness to the public, Councilmeinber Etten opined that a brief, one-sentence description, but not detailed review of each consent agenda item by the City Manager was an important aspect of letting people know what its elected officials were doing that what they were voting for. Councihneinber Etten spoke in support of not reinoving items froin the consent agenda unless for a sepa- rate vote or to malce a significant point; and agreed that asking questions ahead of time was a good idea. Councilmember Laliberte agreed with Councihnember Etten that for transparency purposes, a one-sentence synopsis of those items on the consent agenda was nec- essary. However, Councilmember Laliberte agreed that questions could be asked