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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,May 15,2023 Page 4 Councilmember Strahan explained she met a man who lives in the northeast corner who indicated he did not want a tree,but his wife did. She really appreciates all of the work being done and hears good things about the program. She thought it all worked together when people see the effects. She was thankful for all Mr. Johnson and his team are doing. Mayor Roe noted that historically as the City integrated park planning into the Capital Improvement Program, the natural resources were a part of it. He knew early on it was a placeholder dollar amount but thought as the City gets more sophisticated in thinking about when things are going to need to be looked at again, the next time some major work needs to be done, those things can be programmed in to make sure there is a good sense of the costs associated with the work to be done. He was very impressed by all of the planning efforts. He thanked Mr. Johnson for the update. c. Discussion on City Commission Scope,Duties, and Functions Councilmember Etten briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated May 15, 2023. Mayor Roe thanked Councilmember Etten as well as Councilmember Schroeder for the work done, which he thought was spot on and did not have much criticism. He noted while looking through this what was missing in the City's existing code language is the purpose statement. He thought the emphasis on that was one of the key things that the City wants feedback about. He hoped that some thought would go into the purpose statements for the Commissions as well as for the Council and staff and that the purpose part is able to be incorporated into the updates the City might do to the Code. Councilmember Groff thought this was a really good start on where the City needed to be at and that giving this to the Commissions is going to be important. He liked the timeline, which made sense to him. He indicated it was good for him to reread the references as a refresher and interesting to see how different the Commissions are. He is looking forward to hearing from the Commissions and thought the Commissions would like this as well. Councilmember Etten explained with the Police Civil Service Commission bringing up some things, four of the Commissions have now come to the Council with something on this list. He felt this was as much generated by several Commissions as by anyone sitting on the Council. Councilmember Strahan thanked Councilmember Etten for the work and thought it was a great start. Two things that came to mind were some groups are going to be overachievers and some groups probably less so. She did not know if there was a suggested amount of changes desired from the Commissions because that might help guide how full or how sparse the response could be. She would love to see the