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Mayor Piercy said she was looking at this as a way to place motions on the table and she wished to discuss <br />any CCIGR bill on which there was a split vote. Ms. Bettman responded that the procedure, as it stood, had <br />been for the councilors to take responsibility and review the bills and then, if they chose, they could call out <br />a bill. She saw the change the Mayor was proposing as redundant and a layer of bureaucracy that was not <br />needed. <br /> <br />Mayor Piercy responded that it was fine to choose a different way of conducting the CCIGR work. From <br />her perspective, she wanted to highlight the things that did not have the unanimous support of the CCIGR in <br />order to see if it was the will of the council to discuss them further. She underscored that the direction for <br />the City’s intergovernmental work should come from the whole council and not just from the CCIGR. <br /> <br />Ms. Taylor concurred with Ms. Bettman. She thought the Mayor’s proposal would be time-consuming. She <br />reiterated that it was up to the councilors to read the information from the CCIGR and to call out anything <br />that merited further discussion. <br /> <br />Ms. Walston related that the new Intergovernmental Relations Manager, Brenda Wilson, planned to provide <br />a weekly newsletter to the council. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman thought the authority of the council officers should be discussed in the process session. She <br />wanted to maintain the current process until there was another process session to discuss it. Mayor Piercy <br />responded that she intended to meet with the council officers prior to meetings. She intended to ask them to <br />bring forward bills that received a split vote in the CCIGR. She said it was up to them to say yes or no. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman asked if that was the only item Mayor Piercy would discuss with the council officers. Mayor <br />Piercy replied that she wanted to meet with them regularly before council meetings. She said Mr. Pryor and <br />Ms. Ortiz had expressed a desire to be more engaged in the ongoing process of the council. <br /> <br />Ms. Bettman called this “pretty big.” Mayor Piercy disagreed. She said it was just people talking with each <br />other and council officers trying to figure out how to reach out to the other councilors on an ongoing basis <br />and to have more communication. <br /> <br />Ms. Ortiz commented that she wanted to be more supportive of the Mayor and the council in her role as <br />council president. <br /> <br />The meeting adjourned at 7:40 p.m. <br /> <br />Respectfully submitted, <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Dennis M. Taylor <br />City Manager <br /> <br />(Recorded by Ruth Atcherson) <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MINUTES—City Council January 10, 2007 Page 10 <br /> Process Session <br />