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to cut out of a budget. I do agree that one of our problems is that we do not have goals set for the Council. There is no reason that we can't continue to work toward a oal 9 ITEM B. INSTRUCTION TO THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR CONCERNING REQUEST FROM INDIVIDUAL COUNCILMEMBERS FOR DETAILED, COMPLEX INFORMATION Brand: Her concern was because of a request from Councilman Howard and the amount of time it would take to comply all of the information that he wanted. The concern is a matter of spending a lot of hours when we have individual requests from one Councilmember and not knowing how this information is going to be used. Also is this information going to be used in a way with which the entire council concurs. I would like some direction from you as to whether we are going to spend a lot of time to prepare things that one Councilmember has asked or do you want that to come about as a vote of a majority of Council? Howard: I did in fact ask for all the information that was listed in the memo from the City Administrator. First time I heard that it was going to take a lot of time was when I got the "nastygram" from the City Administrator. If in fact your problem was that i was asking for information for more detail than you could gener- ate, then I should in fact gotten a similar response to my re- quest. Instead what I get is a lecture in memo form, which I find distasteful. In fact if we go through these question that I asked I can't find anyone of them that, in fact, does anything more than clarify how the recreation center is being operated. When I received this memo it appeared to me that staff is in fact unable or unwilling to get me the information that I requested as a Councilman. My only response is to check myself, if staff won't give me the data then I will have to check myself. Myself and Councilman Davidson have spent the last couple of days visiting the recreation center at various times. When I was there at 11:05 we were able to count 8 people working at the rec center and a total of 32 people in the rec center. When we came back at 2:30 we asked how many people were working the number had dropped down to four people. We also asked is there in fact any management that was there and we were told in fact that there was no management in place. This does. show the concerns about the management of the recreation center are justified. When we were walking around the center we noticed several things like the aerobics room was left open, class room and there was other room. I think that one thing that I have not been able to get is a warm and fuzzy feeling that in fact I don't have to ask these ques- tions, just the opposite. If we don't have the information that I have requested why does staff appear to be reluctant to gener- ate that information. I have no problem if it is going to take a large amount of time to generate that information. Sackett moved that Councilman be allowed to ask for information without Council permission as long as it didn't take more than an hour. If it takes longer than an hour then it needs to come back _ to Council and the City Administrator be given the authority to determine if it will take longer than an hour, seconded by 2