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DRAFT Special City Council Work Plan Meeting 1 Monday, February 7, 2011 Page 6 e. Mayor Roe Mayor Roe reviewed his suggestions for 2011/12 work plan items (Attachment 3.e) in the context of the Imagine Roseville 2025 community visioning process; and his desire to keep the community's engagement in the process going forward as "keepers of the vision." Councilmember McGehee offered her observations from the community that the visioning process was nice when done in 2005, but based on the current economy, it was no longer realistic, and should be revised based on current situations and economies. Councilmember McGehee noted that many of the City's residents were elderly and lived on a fixed income, and hadn't seen any COLA for several years in their retirement pensions. Mayor Roe opined that the process remained a vision and should outlast the cur- rent economic situation ; and further opined that he had never considered the Im- agine Roseville 2025 process and resulting strategies and goals as a big spending item, but how the stakeholders envisioned their community in coming years; and expressed hope that the City's budget and the Imagine Roseville 2025 process strove for the same objectives. Councilmember Johnson opined that he was Imagine Roseville 2025 as a tool to be compared ongoing annual realities. In reviewing his notes from previous work sessions, Councilmember Johnson noted that Department Heads and their respec- tive advisory commissions had been tasked with breathing fresh air into the Im- agine Roseville 2025 goals and strategies; and questioned if that had been fol- lowed through. Mayor Roe noted that such a procedure was in place; and Councilmember John- son suggested it was most-likely incorporated in staff's lists provided at the last work session. Councilmember McGehee suggested, as part of her civic engagement initiative, that the City Council hold several public meetings for discussing that specific is- sue. Mayor Roe reminded all that the Imagine Roseville 2025 process was intended to be from the community to the City Council, not vise versa with the City Council dictating the process. Councilmember Willmus opined that he had no problem reviewing the Imagine Roseville 2025 process from that perspective, but not as a budgeting tool, but the ultimate vision of where we want the community to be in 2025.