<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">My apologies for not disclosing that the City Council Workshop is a recurring event, open to the public.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">This meeting was, in fact, scheduled and convened on March 25th.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/records/Meeting%20Packets%20%20Full/GoalSetting03-25-14.pdf">http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/records/Meeting%20Packets%20%20Full/GoalSetting03-25-14.pdf</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Again, my apologies.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On Apr 1, 2014, at 3:35 AM, Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Apparently the Moscow City Council met last week (week of March 24 - 28) to discuss city goals. Yet there is no record, on the city website, of this meeting.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/i-want-to/find-meeting-minutes-or-recordings">http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/i-want-to/find-meeting-minutes-or-recordings</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">No. I am not referring to the mayor's <i>State of the City</i> address; an event unattended by City Council President Walter Steed, who was interviewed subsequent to last week's unrecorded city council session:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's done as city staff begins preparing the spending plan for the new year. This ensures these priorities have the funds necessary to pay for them because staff knows they are priorities, said Council President Walter Steed."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">. . . </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Furthermore, it appears that two of the key topics discussed at this unrecorded session were a city security camera system and a business regulation program.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Off the list as a result of this recent council workshop is funding a security camera system and developing a business regulation program, Steed said."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It would certainly seem appropriate for the citizens of Moscow to be kept informed of such vital issues impacting them.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's (April 1, 2014) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="font-size: 30px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 400; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 34px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moscow City Council to-do list</span></h1><p class="sub-headline" style="font-size: 18px; outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 10px 20px; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); background-image: url(http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/dnews.com/content/tncms/live/components/core_base_library/resources/images/dingbat.gif); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Panel sets goals for upcoming fiscal year</p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Moscow City Council met last week and settled on a list of matters it considers most important during the upcoming 2015 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It's done as city staff begins preparing the spending plan for the new year. This ensures these priorities have the funds necessary to pay for them because staff knows they are priorities, said Council President Walter Steed.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There were 12 goals in FY 2012 and that list was reduced to seven in FY 2013.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"In past years the council has created a lot of goals," Steed said. There were "more than you could do anything with and expect staff to get accomplished."</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Councilor Dan Carscallen was asked a couple of years ago to "winnow the list down and clean it up," Steed said, which is why there haven't been new goals added during the past two years, he added.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The list:</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><ul style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Transition from current annual goal setting process to long-range strategic planning for concerns five years into the future. The 2013 estimate for a consultant is $25,000.</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Develop improvement plans for public rights of way at city entrances. Mayor Bill Lambert said during his State of the City speech last week the "project has been moving forward and is looking at areas of opportunity for enhancements and possible public-private partnerships."</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Expand the perceived downtown on Main Street from E Street to the south couplet through streetscape improvements and evaluation of zoning and development standards. The project is ongoing. The projected construction was set to begin in 2015.</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Research siting and construction of permanent public restroom facilities in downtown Moscow. The cost was not mentioned during 2013 goal setting.</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- Develop and implement a community relations plan using electronic and social media to increase resident participation. The project is ongoing and total hours of staff time was estimated in 2013 to require more than 300 hours for planning and implementation. It's a continuous effort.</span></li></ul></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Also during 2013, each goal's completion was plotted on a specified timeline. Many required efforts over multiple fiscal years. The FY 2013 list only looked out a couple of years.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are two other goals expected to be completed before the end of FY 2015:</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><ul style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Develop a facilities' master plan addressing current and future city operations and space needs. This is slated to be completed this summer when it was placed on the 2013 list. A consultant would receive $35,000 and staff would devote about 160 hours on the work.</span></li><li style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none outside none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Develop and implement strategy for development of ballfields and park land within the city. Moscow School District Community Playfields project, to which the city contributed $1.5 million, goes out for bid today, for example.</span></li></ul></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Off the list as a result of this recent council workshop is funding a security camera system and developing a business regulation program, Steed said.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">-----------------------------------</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stay tuned, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span>=======================================================</span><br><span> List services made available by First Step Internet,</span><br><span> serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.</span><br><span> <a href="http://www.fsr.net">http://www.fsr.net</a></span><br><span> <a href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com</a></span><br><span>=======================================================</span></div></blockquote></body></html>