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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 7, 2019 Page 6 give a multi-year plan without having the funding in place right now. He thought planning year by year made more sense, but the city also has to have projections in place using the data it has right now. Mayor Roe differed a little bit with Councilmember Willmus' recollection on the Finance Commission's recommendation. He remembered it did seem fairly straight forward that the Finance Commission thought it should be budgeted each year and then fund it from whatever sources make sense. He thought it made more sense to have a plan in place and he tended to agree that there is a step of reaching out to the industry to find out where it is at and where the contractors might be in terms of responding to this type of project. There is a way that this can be done without going through an RFP process. A request for qualifications can be done, which sort of gets interested parties to participate in a conversation about what can be done even before it would get to the quoting process. That might be a way to initiate the conversation with the contractors. He thought it made sense and there is time to figure out a plan and find out how much it will cost over a period of years. Councilmember Etten agreed that the city should go out for a request for some- thing soon and at some point, needed to be discussion back and forth between the city and a few different vendors that would look at this and learn what the vendors think the capacity would be for them or maybe it will take a few different ven- dors, he thought it was important to start that process. Mayor Roe summarized that consensus of the Council was to get a process going whereby the Council can know more about the costs as well as qualifications and recommendations of contractors in the industry then staff can put together a more specific plan with the next steps of a bidding process. Councilmember Laliberte indicated she was in favor of a multi-year approach ra- ther than a year by year approach because if the city does not plan ahead, it ends up with funds that are difficult to manage later. She did think the city needed to see what does come back. Chair Baggenstoss felt getting the Council's support was a great move for staff to start getting some ideas and start discussions. The Commission appreciated the Council's input, creativity, and thoughtfulness. Mayor Roe thanked the Commission for coming before the Council to discuss this issue and stated he felt more discussions will come in the near future. b. Consider A Request To Perform An Abatement For Unresolved Violations Of City Code At 2721 Galtier St. Building Official Dave Englund briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated October 7, 2019.