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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 20,2023 Page 10 had a different floor. But she still thought it was a great opportunity for people who do not have access or who are part time. Councilmember Etten explained to address some of staffs questions about goals, he thought the City is doing a lot of things that are important,but he would not look for any major changes from what the City is doing right now as the Council looks at any major things the Council wants. He noted that inflation over the last few years has been extremely high and while it is coming down,the City may be paying the piper now. So the City may not be able to look at the lower number that is true in this moment as the Council looks at how staff and the Council creates the budget as fixed things are looked at. Mayor Roe stated one of the things the City tries to do is look at how much is done along those lines in terms of capital projects. Councilmember Schroeder indicated what she thought of priorities is captured in the City Manager's goals that were discussed. She did want to mention the financial sustainability once the ARPA funds are gone. To her,that is going to be a challenge and they want to make sure that is covered. The other piece is the City knows staffing is a huge issue and what it is going to take to retain and recruit staff. Councilmember Etten asked when the City is hoping to have the classification, compensation study. City Manager Trudgeon explained he needs a lot of data to put into his budget, which he hopes he will have by mid-July. Assistant City Manager Rebecca Olson explained the consultant is still in the process of collecting the data from the market survey, and is waiting on some cities to get that information back to staff. The goal is to have information to the City Manager in big broad terms for the budget, probably, the end of July is when staff will have big broad terms for the market information. Mr. Trudgeon indicated he will be presenting the preliminary budget on August 21, 2023. Councilmember Strahan wanted to reiterate how important it is to many people that the City's public safety continues to have the resources, advanced life support, additional fire fighters, the social workers that are embedded in the programs, and some of these interns that really are very important to what the City does. f. Consider Adoption of National Gun Violence Awareness Month Proclamation City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated June 20, 2023.