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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 11,2011 Page 16 Concluding discussion included how to ensure public interaction for business owners and members of the community throughout the process, with Council- members encouraging staff to approach the process for notifying the public simi- lar to that used in the Parks and Recreation Master Planning process; including announcing the opportunities for input at upcoming Council meetings and through other media sources. Mr. Paschke advised that staff would provide the additional information and meeting dates as it became available. b. Discussion of 2012/2013 Budgeting Mayor Roe provided a brief introduction and his intent for the flow of the discus- sion; and suggested that the recently-completed survey results be worked into the corresponding system with the City Council and staff providing their own numer- ical systems for comparison with each other. Budget Exercise(Attachment A) At the request of Mayor Roe, Finance Director Chris Miller briefly reviewed the exercise requested by the City Council, at the prompting of Councilmember John- son, and staff's presentation of a budget scenario for reducing programs/services from 2010 priorities by ten percent (10%). Mr. Miller noted the challenges in eliminating programs altogether, given some contractual considerations that could impede the ability to do so; and identifying budget reductions without impacting programs ranked more highly by City Councilmembers. Mr. Miller advised that the various program reductions or eliminations identified during the process , and as detailed in the RCA dated March 28, 2011, provided an estimated $1.4 million in cuts, with more possible at the direction of the City Council, but currently in- volving reducing staff by thirteen (13) full-time equivalent(FTE) employees. At the request of Mayor Roe, Councilmember Johnson spoke to whether the exer- cise captured his intent. Councilmember Johnson advised that his intent had been two-fold: showing the drastic impact possible to the budget based on the previous list of priorities, and what departments or programs were most susceptible; and to use that proposed ten percent (10%) reduction to meet the corresponding un- funded Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) needs. Councilmember Johnson sug- gested that the exercise serve as an example as the current City Council reviewed and adjusted their future ranking and methodology of what needed to be consi- dered in providing a well-rounded, balanced community versus more negative re- sults. Councilmember Johnson opined that it was unfortunate that a majority of the impacts seemed to be in the Parks and Recreation area; and noted the need to have a philosophical discussion on how to perform ranking. Councilmember Johnson personally opined that he was not interested in sacrificing the hometown feel that Roseville now had and what it looked like going forward.