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To: Roseville City Council From: Neal Beets cc: Department Heads Date: Thursday,Apri114,2005 Re: City Council Priority Process Date: 04/18/OS Item: 7. Council Goal Setting On Saturday, February 19 at Cedarholm Golf Course, Department Heads identified and spoke to what they view as the `Big Issues" ahead for the City in 2006 and beyond. Since February 19, Department Heads have revised and prioritized their list of `Big Issues." That revised List is attached. Now, Councilmember Maschka has asked for further Council consideration of the City's goals and priorities. One way to receive Councilinember input, feedback, and direction about the City's priorities and goals would be for each Councilinember to revise and then rank the attached List of possible `Big Issues." First you would decide if there are any additional programs or priorities that you favor looking at that are NOT on this List of Big Iss�es_ This could be anything that you think is important to the future of the City, whether it involves adding or subtracting programs or creating greater emphasis or less emphasis on current City goals and priorities. Space has been made available on the attached List for you to include all such goals or priorities or issues that you want to bring forward. You can add all your items to the attached List, either in the space provided for each department or toward the end of the List for issues not falling neatly within one department's operations. Once you have made any additions to the attached List, you could rank the goals and programs on the List -� including the ones you have added — in two ways. First, please rank what yon see as the top 3 priorities or programs within each department. This lets Department Heads know how Councihnembers and the Council as a whole view the priorities within their department. Knowing that helps Department Heads prepare their department's work programs, allocate staff time, and develop their department's proposed budget. We want to m� �� sure our work, our staff, and our budget are aligned with Council goals and priorities. Then, you could rank the top 6 to 10 City goals or priorities in terms of how you view their importance to the long-term health and welfare of the City as a whole. This is probably the mosi important ranking. It tells your fellow Councilmembers how you view the importance of various City programs and where staff time and limited budget resources should be focused. In doing all of this, please remember that the dollar figures I have provided on the attached List are j ust rough estimates. I thought about leaving the dollar figures out for now, but decided to keep them in to give you at least a very rough idea of how much each particular goal, program, or priority might cost. You might want at least some rough idea of this possible dollar impact as