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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 18, 2017 Page 8 Commissioner Zeller reviewed annual operating expenses and reserve balances versus goals; with Mayor Roe pointing out that the reserve targets are well under expenses overall. Specific to the "Future Initiatives Fund," Commissioner Zeller advised that this was a new Fund first seen at their last commission meeting; with Mayor Roe and City Manager Trudgeon both clarifying that this was actually submitted for refer- ence with the City Manager's Recommended 2018 Budget, and had not yet re- ceived City Council discussion for creation of a policy. Commissioner Zeller clarified that the concept of these reserves had been dis- cussed by the commission, but without a full year evaluated and only referred to for establishing a Cash Carry Forward Fund, they would be discussing it in more depth in the future. Without objection, the commission was directed to work on this policy initially without receiving City Council feedback to any great extent at this point until they had further evaluated it. CIP priorities (Attachment D) Commissioner Bachhuber reviewed this attachment, seeking clarification from the City Council as to whether they wanted to number CIP priorities to further assist them. Finance Director Miller clarified that this was formally adopted into policy, and asked if the City Council saw any value to rank those many CIP items. Mayor Roe stated that at the time the answer was "yes," however after further thought, there now seems to be some questions about the value of that. Councilmember Willmus opined that as to the question of prioritization of needs, the answer remained "yes," but he questioned if the City Council had actually delved into establishing what that scoring or ranking might look like. Coun- cilmember Willmus noted his concern in ranking things numerically as suggested in Attachment D when often the nexus of one may be directly or indirectly corre- lated to another. While having no problem with prioritizing the CIP, Coun- cilmember Willmus noted the immediate concern in defining what made up the criteria. Mayor Roe suggested that if the City Council was not in unison on the criteria, they may want to revisit the policy it had already adopted. Councilmember McGehee stated that she had a different view of the policy, opin- ing that efforts to-date to put number rankings on paper had proven worthless, and therefore she wouldn't recommend the process to anyone. Councilmember McGehee stated that she saw this as an exercise to consider when considering a