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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 14, 2009 Page 20 disparity, with staff recognizing the need to rectify that in the future to establish service levels allowing comparisons between departments, as well as with other communities, with the need to allow the BFO process to evolve further over time. Further discussion included service levels and standards; inconsistencies and dif- ferentials in performance measures and cost-effectiveness versus preferred meas- urement of performance outputs and programs; how to achieve an authentic budget prioritization with limited information to-date; need to continue building performance measures for all programs and services city-wide requiring a change in culture and mindset for budget decision-making above and beyond taking last year's budget and adding an inflationary percentage; and not making assumptions that the current budget is the right budget. Councilmember Pust expressed frustration in how to make effective use of the BFO process for the 2010 budget. Mr. Miller noted that staff was open to hearing Council concerns and providing additional information in response to those needs. Councilmember Pust noted that, specific to the Police Department, she was un- able to determine the type of call in correlation to the number of calls in order to address service levels and standards. Councilmember Johnson sought additional information as to when the Springsted representative would be available to represent themselves and their data. Mr. Miller advised that their role was to provide the information; and that they had yet to be formally scheduled for meeting attendance, pending the City Coun- cil's initial reactions. Councilmember Roe opined that hearing from the consultant how they arrived at their numbers and their methodology was critical to the process, in addition to feedback from staff on various questions and to allow educated decision-making on how to allocate resources. Councilmember Roe further opined that the Coun- cil's ability to ask staff questions on how to assign priorities, before those prioriti- zation meeting(s), was necessary to provide a better understanding, and was es- sentially more important that any additional information that the consultant could provide at this point. b. Discussion of Planning and 'Coning Issues Community Development Director Patrick Trudgeon provided a written report as requested on various land use issues; and sought Council direction as to how they preferred to proceed.