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City Council Study Session — 05/17/04 DRAFT Minutes - Page 18 implementation of such a franchise fee. Councilmember Maschka supported continuing staff's annual review of the City's fee structure; Mayor Klausing concurred, further encouraging staff to provide any additional ideas to the Council that they deemed appropriate. Mayor Klausing noted that the only "untouchables" from his perspective would be any reductions that would endanger public health. City Manager Beets once again sought Council direction on the timeline as identified in the staff report, as modified during tonight's discussion; with Councilmembers concurring with the schedule. Councilmember Schroeder questioned whether the timeline should include an additional meeting to discuss the "substance," issues and for the Council to provide additional input. City Manager Beets advised that staff would proceed to prepare a similar level of detail this year as presented last year, including aggregate data and appendices (with page numbers) to review the line item detail. City Manager Beets further noted that, for residents who had expressed concern or interest in specific departments, staff would notify them when that department was to come before the Council and the community to provide for intangible quality comments. City Manager Beets took the Council's direction tonight as it related to "substance," to project an approximate $700,000 levy increase to cover the structural gap and inflationary increases; see how that looks, while at the same time evaluating other programs as well to determine which were achieving their objectives and public support, and for staff to provide recommendations for potential cuts and/or restructuring. Councilmember concurred. Mayor Klausing challenged that staff target approximately half of the projected shortfall through potential cuts.