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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 12, 2009 Page 22 Councilmember Johnson expressed confidence that the information would come forward as the BFO process proceeded; however, he recognized that Council- member Ihlan was apparently indicating that she needed additional information that the process wasn't providing. Councilmember Johnson noted that he had recommended that more discussion be provided on October 26, 2009; including showing the 2010 preliminary budget. Councilmember Pust noted that the motion on the table was for the dollar figures to be included as they were associated with the programs/services on the Attach- ments. Councilmember Johnson clarified that his proposal was that the ranking be com- pleted first, then Mr. Miller would introduce the proposed budget as Phase II of the process. Mr. Miller reviewed the purpose of the BFO process, in determining what the City wanted to be great at first, then establishing the budget. However, Mr. Miller advised that staff would proceed as requested in a vacuum, or providing their best guess, for Council reaction which wouldn't reflect Council priorities at that point. Councilmember Pust clarified that there were two (2) different things under dis- cussion and different intents in the proposed motion. Councilmember Pust indi- cated that she was not seeking staff to decide priorities, but was asking for mone- tary values to be included on Attachment B from the Springsted report as she made her prioritization factors. Councilmember Pust asked that this variable be included if the number currently existed to assist her in making her rankings. Acting Mayor Roe. suggested that this was not the intent of the maker of the mo- tion. Councilmember Pust concurred and asked that the maker of the motion allow her to restate the motion that staff provide numbers that corresponded to Attachment B to make personal prioritization decisions and within the same timeframe as pro- posed. Councilmember Ihlan advised that she would accept that as a friendly amend- ment; as long as numbers were provided for employee health care and COLA for 2010, since they would need to be incorporated into a final budget; by including items in Attachment B and attaching dollar amounts, and providing feedback re- lated to COLA discussion and employee health care costs as related aggregately to other inflationary impacts.