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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 26, 2018 Page 17 Councilmember Laliberte expressed agreement that prioritizing is important. The challenge is it is easy to find a way to put something under a 1 or a 2. The harder category is "wants," things the Council would like to do, but are not mandated, are not for health and safety, and are not an existing asset. From time to time, there are things that fall into that category. She asked for the FC's perspective on something like a fiscal note that gets attached to a new project. It would all tie back to the decision that has been made and how it affects the City in the future. She noted she expects the City Manager to work with department heads to think of the City as one department. Chair Schroeder commented this policy of ranking is a start. As to wants rather than needs, there might be thought towards how this works. The FC has not yet discussed that. She also noted that when everything is categorized, it provides more information to do the balancing. It is a process of giving the Council more ways to look at the information and then putting a possible procedure in place that gives comfort to people when things pop up. Commissioner McRoberts summarized that the Council seems to agree in princi- ple,but it needs a better list. The Council concurred with the summary. Councilmember Laliberte also noted that another factor is the Council wants to take care of efficiency opportunities when they arise. Mayor Roe commented that 3 and 4 can fall into the "wants" category, but these categories mix 2 concepts together, and the Council needs to figure out existing things and new things through a lens of priority that could perhaps apply to both new and existing things, for example, a new proposal can be rated as a 1, whereas something else might come forward and it is a 3, and the City does not have its 1 s taken care of first. Chair Schroeder noted that something new can still be a 1. Mayor Roe concurred. Councilmember Etten agreed a procedure in place or a framework to look at vari- ous proposals will be helpful. In terms of categorization, the item cannot be abandoned it. If it is a 4, it cannot remain a 4 forever. A procedure would be a good starting point for how to consider needs and wants. Mayor Roe commented there are certain things replaced on a schedule, in order to avoid higher costs down the road. Those decision-making processes might help what those categories should be.