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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 28, 2011 Page 17 ties to serve the community, by contacting staff to get them plugged into their ap- propriate areas of interest. 13. Business Items—Presentations/Discussions (continued) a. Review City Council Work Plan City Manager Malinen provided a brief background on the development of the draft work plan (Attachment A), and staff's subsequent consolidation and catego- rization of individual comments, using the Imagine Roseville 2025 as a guide; and now seeking any additional revisions by the City Council to move forward with strategic planning and budgeting processes. Mayor Roe noted one correction in the RCA that the 59 recommendations were now only 46. Mayor Roe questioned the meaning of the asterisks on the list. At the request of Mayor Roe for further clarification and foot noted as appropri- ate, City Manager Malinen advised that the asterisks referred to councilmember items, and that he would check with staff and provide that key on the future draft. Councilmember McGehee opined that the purpose of the City Council should be one of thinking about policy; and that in carefully reviewing the list, the City Council could begin to formulate some general areas for policy development, that would serve to be more productive and in line with the City Council's purpose, as well as more helpful to staff in having a set policy from which to work. Mayor Roe advised that a number of the items listed were based on determining and/or evaluating, and may not all come before the City Council for action; but included those things being done by the City over the coming months or in the short-term. Mayor Roe recognized Councilmember McGehee's perspective, but noted that not all were policy statements or intended to be policies as a basis for moving forward; and provided several examples already in process or coming forward in the near future. Councilmember McGehee advised that she would like to see the City Council as a body not have everything coming to it, but the City Council providing policy di- rection to staff in terms of an overview of where individual Councilmembers and as a collective body they wanted the City to go. Mayor Roe, in addressing City Manager Malinen, clarified that the list incorpo- rated short-term programs and projects to focus energies on with limited re- sources, with the list still being large for staff to carry forward. Mayor Roe didn't disagree with those items needing to be addressed on a policy level; but suggested that the list be further refined for planning with emphasis on specific years (2011, 2012, and 2013)to ensure progress continued.