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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 12, 2019 Page 14 Councilmember Groff thought if an extra tier system was put into place, there should be an educational period done beforehand. He thought the educational piece really needed to be in this to make an affect. Otherwise, most likely those 300 plus people will not stop their water consumption due to an extra twenty to thirty dollars a month. Mr. Culver thought this could be done on a staged approach with an education piece and outreach component to the high users. Councilmember Laliberte thought the city needed to do the educational part of this and outreach could be done to the high-water users with the message that the city might be implementing this. She thought people were conscientious and if brought to their attention, those residents might do more to reduce their usage. She also thought that broader education is useful to the everyday user. Mayor Roe thought there were ways to incentivize through these grant programs, actually implementing conservation measures such as different types of timers for irrigation, and on the commercial side there are a lot of manufacturing processes that use a lot of water, so talking with that user about it might be helpful. Councilmember Willmus indicated he would like to take a slower approach and focus on educating residents without the threat of implementing another tier. He would like to have the program monitored for a time and see if there are any changes to consumption before any changes are made. Councilmember Etten expressed his support of that. Council consensus was to move forward with an educational component. j. Consider Approval of 2019-20 Policy Priority Planning Document City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request For Council Action and related attachments dated August 12, 2019. Councilmember Etten appreciated all the changes made in the document from previous discussions. He noted on page 19, under Strategic Initiative, connection should read connections. On page 9, at the bottom under track measurer or suc- cess, the bullet point should not be there. On page 5, on the Rice/Larpentuer Ini- tiative, second bullet point, depending on how big the square is it could include every business in that zone or three-fourths of them. As he looked at that from McCarron's South, there are probably eight or so. Mr. Trudgeon thought with the Rice/Larpentuer study, it went up to Highway 36. Councilmember Laliberte asked Mr. Trudgeon to comment on the hiring practices in the city.