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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 11,2011 Page 19 ument be used as a basis for ranking methodologies. Councilmember Johnson expressed support for this approach versus that used in the past. Mayor Roe noted that using such a ranking methodology would place a higher priority for those items addressed in community visions and goals, while having an impact across all departments and organization; and that if something was highly ranked, it achieved an aspect of that community vision, or was related to that specific function and should be part of the overall process and providing a linkage between programs/functions. Mayor Roe suggested that Councilmembers be cognizant and agree on various goals or visions prior to the individual ranking process. Further discussion included individual rankings based on community vision; re- cognizing staff costs and impacts, no matter ranking methodologies or community visions and goals; assumptions that each program/service had significant staff costs, but relating priorities to how the visions is delivered to the community, not based on staff, with that information still part of the process. After additional discussion, it was the consensus that individual Councilmembers develop several priorities or vision/goal statements for review and consideration by the full body at their next meeting; and using the documents previously refe- renced for development of their statements, and recognizing that some of the doc- uments were more current than others not yet updated. Further discussion included how to determine what the number rankings meant based on vision/goal statements; whether to retain only five (5) levels. Mayor Roe asked that Councilmembers, at their earliest convenience and for in- clusion in the Council Agenda packet materials, provide staff with their individual statements for further discussion at the next meeting to finalize ranking metho- dologies. Related to the revised budget schedule (Attachment A), Mayor Roe sought con- sensus, resulting in support of the schedule as revised, and inclusion of Item #19 as suggested by Mayor Roe. Mayor Roe directed staff to include formal adoption of the schedule on the next meeting agenda, allowing staff to make further revisions based on tonight's dis- cussions. Budget Documentation Mayor Roe provided two (2) bench handouts, attached hereto and made part of hereto;with program listings ordered by budget fund and department, and divided within departments based on the particular function within the organization; and