This is 9 30, and I would entertain a motion to reconvene the meeting.

So move, Mayor.

Second.

I have a motion and a second.

Cast your vote.

And we're back.

We'd like to start this morning.

Just a very quick recap of where we were at yesterday when we left.

And it's kind of the tail end of item five on the agenda.

And just get any additional thoughts we have from council.

Any questions, thoughts, additions, concerns.

Where we left it was we pretty well had our six strategic vision statements identified, and we had a in a host of goals set up up there.

And I I know that we all went home thinking about it, trying to figure out okay, what's next, what do we measure.

That's where we were at yesterday was looking for that insight from staff on what do you all believe we we ought to be measuring to say that we're truly strategically moving in the right direction.

So is anyone else on council have any thoughts or comments?

I've just got a little something, Mayor, if I may.

And uh our citizens are the most important people that we work for.

And uh that was an aggressive piece of work yesterday, and I appreciate the work you did overnight and this morning.

And uh we'll get this figured out, and but I want to tell each of you thank you for what you did and how it came about, and uh I look forward to buttoning that up today.

Thanks.

Um I also appreciate all of you and looking forward to today, and we'll get some things done.

Appreciate you.

Anything from this side?

Nothing really, other you know, Preston and I were talking a little bit ago, and we we just want you guys to know we fully recognize you guys are the experts.

And and I'm kind of interested to see what kind of feedback you guys will have and what kind of adjustments, which I think to what we did yesterday adjustments or added input, whatever we want to call that.

So thanks for your efforts.

I think one thing I was thinking about last night is when we do this next year.

I just maybe want to think about how we structure it again because um I feel like there's an element of like what it what is the like to Barry's point, what is what is the public value and prioritize, right?

Like we don't even talk about that in here other than just kind of what we think through these list of this list here, but I think it'd be good to have some kind of citizen survey results or whatever it is at the time to kind of baseline everybody as to what people think is important.

I think we kind of have a feel for that, but I think that'd be good to add, and then staff recommendations would be another thing that we might think about doing next year, just because you all have things that are on your list, and we sort of see them in the budget workshops, but to some extent we're coming in cold with our own ideas here, so that maybe a little more collaborative next year would be a good thing.

Um that's it for me.

All right.

Um I think I can add to what everybody said here, and this is new, it's a new process.

Um we've got a lot of opportunity in front of us, and pressed into your comment about public input.

Really, the public input we have is either what you all have heard as individuals, or from what the citizens have told the five of us.

And as you all know, we hear the good and the bad all the time.

And that's what drives a lot of our decision making is understanding where the where the public is and what their vision of admin is as well as ours.

And that's why it is so critical that as we take these vision statements, these six statements, and we look at goals that we've dropped underneath them.

Some of them are measurable, as Preston said yesterday, and some of them are just deliverables.

And there is a big difference on that.

But the bigger thing is what are we going to measure to show that we're moving the right direction?

And that was where we left it yesterday.

And I'd like to hear a little bit of input from you all, and AJ, maybe you can kind of guide this piece of it for us, just as a first shot, just what you all believe as a staff are the most important goals up there.

Just let's not get into detail with them at this point.

So do you want to kind of wrap that up as we're as we're working on item six here?

Sure.

I think we all know that I can't tell.

You can hear me okay with this.

I think we all know that coming out of yesterday that far and away the most important item was food trucks.

More of that's about more of more often, more location.

You're a quick study.

I I think just thinking about how you just framed the question mayor.

I I don't think it's our role necessarily to tell you what we think is the most important.

You come up with six uh initiative, or a little bit maybe lost in our terminology, but initiative strategic areas or what somebody wants to call them.

And there's no question that as you go through them.

There are lists of things that are important to uh to you, and so therefore they're important to the community, and as a staff, we want to be responsive to it, and I know that we at least part of this wants to begin to talk about resource allocation and budgeting.

And um after three weeks, I don't know that I'm a hundred percent there or that I'm a hundred percent equipped to do that, but we want to be able to get to a point where coming off of this, we can uh I talk about alignment a lot.

We can make sure that organizationally we're aligned to do the things that are important to you, but that also we can demonstrate to you, we can suggest to you in the 26-27 budget, and then we can ultimately adopt a budget that is that has resources aligned with uh with your priorities.

And so one thing we are prepared to do uh today is uh and really to uh the senior staff's uh credit, we're prepared to speak to some specific, in some cases uh know that they meet the sort of strict interpretation or definition of a metric or a measurable, but but in some cases they'll be deliverables, in some cases we have some specific recommendations that we might suggest for what would offer up for how to measure the effectiveness here.

Um some of these things, and I've I've used this example a couple times in the last few years or last few days.