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Special City Council Meeting Minutes of 10/01/07 Page 13 discussions and prioritizations, which she further opined was not an appropriate facilitated dis- cussion. Mayor Klausing asked City Manager Malinen to comment on benefits of facilitation by HKGI. City Manager Malinen expressed great encouragement from the City Council's efforts; and his noted on priorities as identified, which should provide an end product with better definition from which the Council could work; and sought further Council direction as to the process at this point. City Manager Malinen advised that a facilitator could help guide the Council through their priority-setting exercise as needed, in addition to creating a good working relationship be- tween the Council and HKGI. Councilmember Pust opined that the next step would be to remove those items not identified as an immediate priority, while still keeping them before the Council, and condensing a list of eve- rything that was named tonight, to be more specifically costed-out by staff prior to the next dis- cussion, to provide more information for Council discussion, whether or not that discussion was facilitated. Councilmember Pust further opined that this additional data and analysis would al- low for action plans to be developed from that next discussion. Mayor Klausing used the example of Item 1.A.6 related to fostering youth leadership, and ques- tioned how staff could put a dollar amount to that item without more brainstorming opportuni- ties. Councilmember Pust opined that some items would clearly need more specific discussion; how- ever, noted that some items (i.e., updating the pathway plan), was an item of consensus, and staff could easily provide additional costs, without wasting additional time in creating specifics. Mayor Klausing opined that a fairly substantial number of items had been identified, but not all would be top priorities, and questioned if Council should request staff to come back with pricing options before the Council determined which items would remain and which would be post- poned. Councilmember Roe recognized Mayor Klausing's concerns; however, noted the need to look at identified consensus-level items, utilizing the bits of information provided by staff to-date to work through additional discussion. Councilmember Roe opined that, before staff was directed to do any additional work, the detailed direction of the Council as a whole needed to be deter- mined, with that discussion held among Councilmembers at the next available opportunity; and then that "short list" could go back to the staff level for them to provide further detail. Councilmember Pust concurred with Councilmember Roe's comments and recommendation. Councilmember Ihlan opined that she wanted to meet with HKGI to remain in the loop for the Comprehensive Plan Update; however, concurred that the Council needed further discussion to determine how to move forward on consensus items and/or individual Councilmember work on a policy level, and was not supportive of a facilitator for this continued discussion.