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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 25, 2019 Page 6 ways to keep the spirit and idea of what is being talked about in that paragraph in the policy. Mayor Roe stated on Attachment A, the example fiscal note, on the expenditures side of things on page 7 of 9, is the depreciation category intended to be sort of a capital set-aside amount the City wants to be sure to program in as an operating cost. Chair Schroeder indicated it was correct. Councilmember Etten thought this was great for openness. He stated in Attach- ment A, page 4 of 9, it talks about the guidelines for capital replacement. He ap- preciated the Commission settled on guidelines. One question he had is whether "projects necessary for public health and safety, or to meet legal mandates." Question number two is directed around maintaining existing assets, but what is missing is replacement of a lot of the City's general things that may not be a mat- ter of health and safety. He noted that health and safety might be a fire truck or emergency equipment or even playground equipment, but he wondered what hap- pens if an IT server is needed, or new flooring in City Hall. Those things do not get addressed in this and he would like to combine the ideas of one and two and projects that are replaced to read "replace or maintain existing assets" versus the next one "projects that expand existing assets or services in order to benefit the Public Good" or four "projects that purchase new assets or services in order to benefit the Public Good." Looking at replacing what the City has, expanding what the City has, and then adding completely new assets. Commissioner Harold stated when the guidelines were written, public health and safety were not being thought of like as just fire trucks and police cars or what some people might think of as public safety departments. The Commission was thinking more of a real safety issue, such as broken play equipment. Replacement of police equipment would be in category two rather than one. Councilmember Etten indicated that made sense but wondered if item two could read "Projects that replace or responsibly maintain existing assets," because at some point a lot of things are not on that and the word "replace" is key to him in this situation. Mayor Roe appreciated the clarification on the public health and safety aspect. Mayor Roe thought the idea with this feedback is to come back with a final draft for the Council to adopt on the consent agenda. Mayor Roe asked if there was anything else the Commission wanted to discuss. Chair Schroeder stated last Monday, the cash carryover fund was voted on by the City Council and working on the policy for that is going to be ongoing.