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<br />Planned Study Session dates for the calendar year of 2007. The calendar will need to be <br />formalized in two months. The format is slightly different in that the Regular Council <br />sessions are on the first and third Monday of every month but several holidays will fall on <br />some Mondays and will need to be moved to a Tuesday. Tuesday could interfere with <br />some Commission meeting times. The months of July, August, November and December <br />will have only one meeting. She suggested that Study session be before each of the <br />Council regular sessions. Ms. Feier put it up to the Council for discussion. <br /> <br />Ms. Brot said that she was pleased with the effort to formulate a definite cycle for Council <br />meetings. Ms. Brot felt like she has been an advocate for Study sessions so issues could <br />be discussed and hopefully mutually remedied. She has long felt that it is impossible to <br />make progressive forward movements if Council did not meet in order to become more <br />knowledgeable of the facts and then to discuss the pros and cons. She would like to add <br />additional study sessions that are longer than an hour, at least once a quarter. <br /> <br />Ms. Feier asked if Council would like for her to pick a date each quarter for a longer <br />meeting. She also asked Council if they would like for her to schedule Public Hearings on <br />the Budget in addition to the four quarterly meetings. <br /> <br />Ms. Brot asked Ms. Feier if the budget meetings could be reviewed differently now. She <br />would like to review a department as a whole and evaluate how they are progressing <br />instead of doing line by line. <br /> <br />Mr. Price asked if it had to be decided at this meeting. He felt that he does a lot of his <br />studying on his own and would not need many study sessions. He suggested that the 50 <br />plus issues be prioritized as he did not want to have 50 study sessions. He was not in <br />favor of many study sessions. <br /> <br />Ms. Brot said that she was not advocating 50 study sessions. She felt she was well <br />prepared for each Council session but what she was looking for was an interchange of <br />ideas. We can learn from each other as there is not just one position. Some of the study <br />issues require give and take about how do we really want to handle an issue or solve the <br />problems for our citizens. <br /> <br />CITIZENS’ COMMENTS <br />Mayor Adams said that a citizen had asked to speak on the calendar and noted that a <br />discussion with the City Manager would have to take place to formulate a way to handle <br />citizen’s comments and still maintain streamlining the new agenda format. <br /> <br />Mae Etta Weston, 1595 Mendell <br />Ms. Weston wanted to be sure the City understood the dislike of the style of the 2006 <br />calendar. The day’s numbers were extremely hard to read as they were printed vertically <br />instead of horizontally and the light grey lines dividing each day were so faint that anyone <br />with weaker eyesight found it hard to read. <br /> <br />Mayor Adams announced the results of the votes for Ward Two councilmember <br />replacement. He announced the top three candidates alphabetically: <br />1. Lisa Greening <br />2. Wayne Munkel <br />3. Lynn Ricci <br /> <br /> <br />