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Mayor Hartnett added that there were two parts to the Fire Station in Redwood Shores: operational expenditures which relate to revenues, and the capital expenditure. Mayor Hartnett said he contemplated that the recommendation would cover both those aspects as well as the timing. Councilwoman La Berge, referring to the Revenue guidelines, stated she would support looking into NPDES. She said she believed the City's storm water costs should not be taken out of the General Fund and would support looking at the NPDES issue again. Councilwoman La Berge expressed interest in looking into Revenue guidelines B) and C) (UBC fees and parking rates and fines), but stated she was not anxious to make changes in those areas. Councilman Ruskin said he would be interested in seeing reports on all the Revenue guidelines, but he wouldn't necessarily favor those changes. Vice Mayor Howard, referring to the Expenditure guidelines, said she wanted to be sure that the Council priorities set at the workshop weren't being jeopardized. Vice Mayor Howard said the Council didn't want to find itself in a situation where it established a priority and then through the budget process made cuts in the program that supported that priority. Under Revenue guidelines Vice Mayor Howard said she was interested in looking at Uniform Building Code fees and others where the City was below the average charged by other cites in the County, she was interested in revisiting NPDES because monies were being taken from the General Fund to support this unfunded federal mandate which was not going to go away and was a drain on Council priorities such as increased public safety and the Fire Station in Redwood Shores. Vice Mayor Howard said she would be interested in reviewing fees in general, not that she wanted to raise them, but she wanted to look at them, especially in Parks and Recreation. She added that "we have to try to make these programs as self-sustaining as possible." She said comparatively speaking, the current fees are very, very low and minor increases may be warranted to help these programs become more self-sustaining. Vice Mayor Howard again stated she wanted staff to focus on the Council's established priorities when making recommendations. She added that she preferred not to have lay-offs; and she was in favor of cross-training and changing job descriptions if necessary and fully discussed and understood by all parties. Mayor Hartnett said he agreed with Vice Mayor Howard that the Council's stated objectives must be kept in the forefront and suggested that the "Council needs to have our objectives as an overlay on the Revenue and Expenditure guidelines....This needs to come back to us with that overlay....Unless our objectives are restated and we find how they are expressed in the Expenditure and Revenue guidelines we don't see what impact they have or might have as priorities." Mayor Hartnett said that with respect to the Expenditure guidelines Item 1) to hold all expenditure increases to a maximum of 2% in each of the two fiscal years except for what MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Regular Meeting Minutes Page No. 102 February 26, 1996 Page 14