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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March O1, 2010 Page 7 new businesses had asked how they could become more engaged in the community, and sought City Manager Malinen's vision for that item. Discussion included opportunities with Rotary, Roseville Visitor's Asso- ciation (RVA); how to communicate those options to the business com- munity; involvement in Chamber of Commerce networks, and the City's history with various chambers and costs involved. Councilmember Roe suggested receiving feedback from businesses and whether a Business Advisory Commission was needed for that feedback beyond random comments; cost of that involvement; and specific strate- gies for that focus. Mayor Klausing suggested refocusing tonight's discussion on prioritizing and how to fund those identified priorities, rather than attempting to im- plement new strategies or expanding staff expectations. Councilmember Roe clarified that the attempt was to better understand what was being done and how it was being done, not suggesting more things to do, but how to measure performance and if those high priorities were not being met how to reassign resources from a lower priority area. Councilmember Johnson advised that his intent was to understand the vi- sion of the department, what was being accomplished and what wasn't be- ing accomplished, and how those items would be addressed on a BFO document. City Manager Malinen noted that the vision needed to take into considera- tion the time and/or financial resources for accomplishment. Mayor Klausing noted the constraints of continuing to do more with less, and the need to recognize staff's recognition that the City couldn't be top notch at everything at current funding levels and limited resources. Mayor Klausing asked Mr. Malinen if there was some part of administration that would be a lower priority to make sure effective prioritization was hap- pening, and those functions that could at the bottom of the priority list. City Manager Malinen advised that with attempts to increase communica- tion with the public or media or staff, it was difficult to reduce that priori- ty; and other functions (i.e., elections and records management) were mandatory or statutory and that few areas remained that could be reduced and/or eliminated.