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City Manager's Report Friday, November 4,2005 Page 7 of 9 subjects. There were a large number of Parks and Recreation "poli- cies." There were Finance Department "policies" about reserve levels and investment of city funds. These policies were modified by department heads as circumstances changed. The "policies" were compiled in a three-ring notebook. . Sometime around 1990, Council began addressing some of these policies in Council work sessions and staff began compiling the policies in the back of the City's budget book rather than in a 3-ring binder. From time-to-time, staff would revise these policies in light � Council input at work sessions, though no minutes were taken for these work sessions or any other work sessions perhaps because no Council vote or action was taken. In addition to modifications made as a consequence of Council input, staff would continue to make their own modifications to the policies affecting their depart- ment as state law and city budgets and local circumstances changed. . After 1998, we can find no evidence that anyone - Council or City Manager or Department Heads -- was modifying or updating the policies, though copies of policies continued to appear in the back � the budget book. • It would be wrong to say the Council adopted these polices in work/stu�y sessions or budget sessions. Council did not adopt them in work/stuc�y session or budget sessions; Council and staff discussed a few of these policies in wo�rk/study sessions from �ime- to-time. • But talking about City policies and adopting City policies are two different things. This Council, for example, talked about City Council Rules � Procedure for the better part of two years. It would be wrong and misleading, however, to say that this Council adopted Council Rules � Procedure because you talked about them quite a bit. , r