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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 26, 2018 Page 16 Finance Commissioner McRoberts added that 1 s will often be 2s, but there are 2s that are not 1 s. Also, the best approach is to start with something and then learn from it and evolve. The recommendation is that if the data is tracked, the Council has the data and can do something with it. Chair Schroeder noted the FC considers the City one big department and it is hard when Parks and Rec and IT and Fire Department come to the Council with their priorities; this is another way to try to look at the pie as a whole, even though each individual area has to have its own things. The goal is to make sure the 1 s and 2s are covered in all departments. It is helpful to think of it as one big department to start with. Councilmember Etten commented that the City is playing a catch-up game, as some things were neglected for decades. When the Council receives an item, it now requires the cost implications. He wondered how a 3 or 4 would show up in a categorization arrangement system, because the current CIP is almost exclusive- ly 1 s and 2s. Commissioner McRoberts stated the FC has discussed that the 3s and 4s should not be excluded. After all, what is the point of having a capital plan if certain are- as are not included? Mayor Roe stated that right now, the capital plan focuses on caring for existing assets. He recalled that the City did put a placeholder for the replacement of the golf clubhouse, and clearly that was not funded. But that was TBD when and if and how it happens. The License Center replacement concept is also like that, with a placeholder in the CIP system. He does not know how much "new" be- yond a community center that the City will be doing, unless there is something nobody has thought of yet. Councilmember McGehee thanked Commissioner Bachhuber for his comments on sustainability. She noted there has been talk about needing new storage space and needing a new Public Works building. She does not know why the Golf Clubhouse was not included as part of the Parks Renewal process when it went forward. She believes that the Council has made significant strides towards sus- tainability and having things come to the Council with long-term definition of maintenance and capital investment is a relatively new approach, but some things still do come to the Council on a one-off basis. There has to be some way to be more forceful in looking at things as a whole and looking at things in a sustaina- ble way. For example, one of the issues in this community is broken pathways. Broken pathways are a hazard and a liability in the community and are expensive. She is not convinced there is an adequate program for maintenance and replace- ment of the existing pathways. However, the FC can create a plan that forces the Council to be holistic in its approach.