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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 17, 2018 Page 9 uments and everyone can see the plan and amount and when the project will start. Also, for transparency reasons, the $5,000 threshold is important to her and the public, so the residents do know what is going on and not just blankly being ap- proved somewhere. Mayor Roe stated approval of over$5,000 purchasesis usually a consent item and if discussion needs to be done on it, the Council will remove it from consent for further review. He thought the $5,000 limit has made sense over the years. He recommended the Commission take some of the feedback received and work more on policy language. Councilmember Etten stated in regard to Attachment A, top of page two, an item that now seem to be covered by the City public financing process that has been established through community development is the first bullet point. He won- dered if that point belonged in a CIP discussion because the City has a fleshed-out policy that has been set forward in the last year that does this, but it does not seem it fits under a CIP,but rather in the City community development process. Chair Schroeder thought it might make sense for the Commission to review the entire policy and then bring the proposed plan forward after changes. Mayor Roe thought it might make sense, in looking at the practicalities of this, to go back to a portion of the City's existing CIP documentation and figure out if a column should be added for the asset category to the document or is there other documentation that needed to be changed or added. Councilmember Laliberte thought it would be good to figure out when an event would trigger the start of that process because the Council would not want to all of the sudden come too late to make it work. She asked what action, what dis- cussion, would prompt or trigger the start of the event? Mayor Roe thought one trigger would be if the residents came to the City wanting something that the City has never had before and then there is the catastrophic event or immediate attention. Councilmember Etten stated the Council is looking for a little more fleshing out and what would the template actually look like, what would the community be seeing, and what would the Council be reviewing at stages. He would love to see what this item turns into. Chair Schroeder thought the big part was the Commissioners wanted to make sure the Commission was going down the right path with this item and then moving forward with further review, changes and additions.