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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 28, 2011 Page 19 Mayor Roe and Councilmember Willmus concurred that the information could be added to the exercise. City Manager Malinen advised that the information could be provided; however, in his discussions with Councilmember Johnson and his intent for the process, they met with each Department to discuss and understand the potential impact to programs and/or services to be affected and the extent to which they'd be af- fected, with some eliminated and some reduced as indicated in the exercise. Mr. Malinen advised that, while there could be more specificity provided about the level of service, it was intentional to avoid showing dollar amounts, both from his and Councilmember Johnson's perspective, as the goal was to understand what a 10% levy reduction would mean to services provided. Mr. Malinen advised that, in the priority based budgeting process, they started at the bottom of the priority list; and this was a culmination of all departments working collectively to elimi- nate or reduce those items, no matter the dollar amount. Mr. Malinen clarified that the point of the exercise was to understand what was in the mix and what would be affected to provide a sense of those impacts, and achieving a $1.4 mil- lion reduction, or 10%, without specifying the level of FTE's affected, since it was a prioritization exercise at the preliminary stage of the process, but may be misconstrued at this point by individuals who could fall under those significant associated impacts. Councilmember McGehee noted that she had not participated in the previous pri- oritization exercises; and didn't anticipate that staff would use that ranking com- pleted by a previous City Council; and clarified that she didn't see it as an exer- cise, but as a genuine attempt to provide an example of every staff member taking a five-day furlough; wages frozen; and from her point of view, she didn't see it as a random exercise but as a meaningful and genuine first pass to show alternatives that had real meanings and dollar amounts, and within State Statutes. Mayor Roe noted that in previous packets (Attachment B), 2011 dollar amounts were available as a line item from various categories in the prioritization program. Councilmember Willmus noted that he took this as an exercise; and expressed in- terest in taking those items identified from the last budget cycle, in their context with the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, the 2030 Comprehensive Plan, and the Imagine Roseville 2025 process; and suggested that it could serve as another tool as this City Council develops new initiatives or priorities going forward, and opined that as an exercise it was a good starting point and served to highlight con- tract items, those identified through community input done over the last few years, and the categorization process, each used as budget tools. Mayor Roe suggested that staff add a column for 2011 budget amounts to the next draft for discussion purpose.