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City Council Study Session Monday, September 17, 2007 Page 8 Mayor Klausing, in his role as defacto facilitator, that the discussion be sooner rather than later; and if necessary to set aside time at each meeting, or outside regular Council meetings to move from discussion to action. Mayor Klausing advised that he would further discuss with City Manager Malinen timing and facilitation of discussion opportuni- ties. Councilmember Roe suggested that staff define discussion objectives for each topic; with general areas of interest or concern as a first dis- cussion topic, followed by more detailed discussion of the entire list; and a plan of action for future meetings. Councilmember Roe spoke in support of allotting a healthy chunk of time for the first discussion; and noted that the November 5th meeting had been added to replace the November 12th meeting, and suggested that if no specific agenda items were evident, that meeting would be a good time for discussion, or a special meeting during October to initiate discussion sooner if preferred. Councilmember Pust suggested that for the first meeting, individual Councilmembers should be diligent in doing their homework and come prepared with 3-5 priority items, and consider their application to the Imagine Roseville 2025 document, to allow engaged discussion; opining that the majority of Council priorities can be tied to that docu- ment. Councilmember Pust further suggested that, following that dis- cussion and identification of similarities or abilities to group things together, the outcome of that meeting, once priorities, could lead to discussion of consensus items, at which time the output of that initial discussion was to task staff with coming back, in a brief period of time, on impacts such as costs, ramifications to staff, budgetary, and time constraint issues. Councilmember Pust opined that, for the sec- ond discussion, when faced with realities, Councilmembers could con- tinue to whittle down their expectations from the first discussion. Mayor Klausing clarified assignments for individual Councilmem- bers, prior to the first meeting, would be to identify their individual priorities to allow narrowing. those priorities through consensus, and determining how to proceed from that discussion.