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<br />Council Members <br />Alicia C. Aguirre <br />Ian Bain <br />Jim Hartnett <br />Diane Howard <br />Jeff Ira <br /> <br />Redwood <br />U-ltu GIIlifDrDlI <br />l' fDun..d 1811 <br />~ <br /> <br />1017 MIDDLEFIELD ROAD <br />P.O. BOX 391 <br />Redwood City, California 94064-0391 <br />Telephone (650) 780-7220 <br />FAX (650) 261-9102 <br />www.redwoodcity.org <br /> <br />7C <br />Page 1 <br /> <br />Mayor Barbara Pierce <br />Vice Mayor Rosanne Foust <br /> <br /> <br />March 13, 2006 <br /> <br />Dear Council Members, <br /> <br />In preparation for the March 13th meeting I wanted to review the goals of the session, as I <br />understand it, and to provide you with some materials to help shape the discussion. I'd <br />like to ask you to review the attached materials and to bring up any other ideas that you <br />believe are missing so that we can add them at the beginning of the meeting. During the <br />discussion you will have the opportunity to champion themes or areas of concern, discuss <br />and vote on priorities. <br /> <br />I see the three goals of the meeting as enabling Council to: 1) review priority areas and <br />subtasks; 2) develop recommendations for tasks that need to be addressed in the current <br />2- year budget, those that need on-going attention and support, those to eliminate or <br />postpone and long-tenn focus items; and, 3) provide additional direction to staff <br />regarding the priorities. Final decisions regarding priorities will be made closer to the <br />actual budget sessions when more data is available regarding the fmancial status of the <br />City. <br /> <br />It is important to remember that the City is still at deficit funding level so any new or <br />changed priorities will require one of three choices - fund the new item by removing <br />funds from something else, take funds from reserves, or increase revenues. <br /> <br />To help focus this discussion there are several documents included in this packet: <br /> <br />1. Discussion agenda prepared by Shauna Wilson of Peninsula Conflict Resolution <br />Center <br /> <br />2. Summary document that takes the infonnation from the February 6th Council Priority <br />setting session, 2005 Priorities, the two community input sessions, and PACT <br />Community Builders input and arranges this into major themes with subtopics. <br />Financial infonnation regarding subtasks has been provided by city staff <br />and incorporated by Ms. Wilson. <br /> <br />..---.------...--------..--.--------- ,.- _..----- <br />