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� <br />3 <br />� <br />� <br />� <br />� <br />�i� <br />1� <br />Rosevills� City Council - DRAFT Minutes <br />of 2/06/07 Special Meeting Pg 4 of 10 <br />3� Councilmember Pust opined that the end product she wanted to <br />leave with tonight was a better understanding of how the Council <br />can better work together outside Council meetings, noting her <br />experience over the last year with inefficiencies in the process, and <br />suggesting that creating task forces, or subcommittees to provide <br />preliminary study, with recommendations and research presented <br />to the entire body, may be a more efficient way to assemble <br />background information. Councilmember Pust noted the work <br />done on the James Addition and the City Manager Contract and the <br />effectiveness of those task forces in bringing forward concrete <br />recommendations to the body. Councilmember Pust expressed <br />�� frustration regarding the current practice of having an item brought <br />� 3 �'o�rvva�d at a Council meeting; returned to staff to provide <br />�� additional information and/or respond to Council questions, and <br />� 5 then coming back before Council again for a vote. <br />t� Councilmember Pust clarified that her intent was not that the task <br />Zr <br />IS <br />l� <br />�U <br />�l <br />�� <br />force or subcommittee served as decision-makers, but provided the <br />"homework" for various issues to bring before the body as a <br />whole. <br />Some discussion was held on curfews, and the need to allow flexibility. <br />�3 Mayor Klausing noted his attempts to move the meetings forward in an <br />�� efficient way; expressing frustrations that this was not always apparent, <br />�5 nor was it possible to avoid redundancy at times. Mayor Klausing <br />�� supported the idea of a curfew, noting that discussion of public business <br />� r should be done at a reasonable hour. Mayor Klausing questioned if the <br />�� Council was at cross purposes with itself when their mutually exclusive <br />�� objectives of following a curfew, while allowing unlimited testimony on <br />�c� land use issues that should be heard at the Planning Commission level. <br />31 Mayor Klausing noted frustrations he'd experienced when on the <br />,�L Planning Commission, and seeing the City Council take further extensive <br />33 public comment. Mayor Klausing supported reconciling goals and <br />�� Council conduct to allow reasonable meeting durations. <br />35 <br />3� Substantial discussion was held regarding the role of advisory comm�ssions, <br />�� and the role of the City Council and the public's expectations of their elected <br />y�� officials in the decision-makingprocess; how to mal�e the public aware that <br />�� their testimony at the Planning Commission's public hearing was heard by <br />�� the City Council in the recorded meeting minutes; and whether public <br />