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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 17, 2018 Page 8 Mayor Roe agreed. Councilmember McGehee stated one of the things that has bothered her on all of her years on the Council is that every department has their own established events strategy and policy piece and they don't ever all come to the Council for a uni- fied discussion. If the Council is going to be establishing priorities, the Council needs to see all each department's needs and wants at one time, not just certain pieces at different times. It makes it difficult to adequately evaluate the priorities and the spending that is done. That is something, if the Council had the listing for each department, there would be an overall view for the City that would be help- ful for the City and the Council when making decision. Councilmember Etten asked if the policies should be laid out in a document for each department. Councilmember McGehee would like the departments to indicate the expenditures planned over the next ten years with the strategy and policy. If one department has three event items and another department has three and the Council only sees them as single individual events that come before the Council, they as a Council, are not able to effectively set priority as the priority setting body. Mayor Roe felt the Council did receive the information needed because the CIP document talks about the policy basis for the various recommendation with the department. He thought events werea handful of things to the extent that the Council knows what the things are at this time. Councilmember McGehee stated she would like to be more transparent on event items, so everyone knows what is being planned for in each department. Councilmember Willmus stated this is a difficult part of what the Council does but what he likes about the template model, is that it really will tend to focus some on those conversations more in line with a template on what the City is do- ing, how is the City going to do it, and why. He thought that was important. He thought there was perhaps some tweaking to various language needed but overall this was a good starting point that he was intrigued by and want to put more work into. Councilmember Laliberte concurred with Councilmember Willmus. She liked a lot of what was in the report and a good starting point. She does like the idea of standardizing some format expectations, especially event items. She thought a good thing to add would be an engagement process and modeling out for revenue versus expenses versus maintenance. Anything that might come into play for any of those items would also be a good thing to standardize as a part of that process. She stated what she was not comfortable giving up was when the Council does approve the street projects for the season and are putting that into the public doc-