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reflect the four key conclusions of the Baseline Study: and provide the Strategy's major organizing framework. Within each of the four program areas is a list of specific actions that the City can folio\% to achieve the overall objectives related to the program area. Each action includes four different types of information: • First is a narrative description of the action itself including a description of what the action is intended to accomplish. what methods should be used to implement the action, and what general outcomes should result. • Second is a discussion of roles and responsibilities, i.e., who will be responsible for implementing the action. • Third is a priority ranking, to assist staff in deciding how to allocate resources available for implementation. Initially. the EDAC discussed prioritizing the four program areas to assist in making future decisions about the allocation of budget and staff resources. However, the consensus was that all four police areas were equall- important. and all need to be addressed simultaneously. However. the EDAC did prioritize the individual actions within each program area. The summary matrix of actions included in the Executive Summary, and the actual listing of the actions in each chapter reflect this prioritization. Rather than rank the actions against each other, from highest to lowest priorit%. EDAC members were asked to rate each action within a given program area as a high, medium, or low priority. This ranking process was conducted during three separate meetings. Individually. each member assigned a priority ranking to each action. then the group compared rankings and reached consensus on any questions or disagreements that arose. Based on the consensus of the group, no actions received a low prioriry ranking. The EDAC deemed all of the actions to be valuable and desirable given sufficient resources for implementation; therefore. the EDAC assigned all actions a priority ranking of either high or medium. It should be noted that there was considerable discussion about how to prioritize existing programs that have been included in the Strategy. These programs are considered important. and should continue to receive support from the Cir,, but in most cases the EDAC gave existing programs, such as the one -stop permit center. a medium priority. This does not reflect a lack of support by the EDAC. in fact the EDAC is ven supportive of these existing programs, but only that the EDAC recognizes that considerable effort «ill be necessary to create neH programs and implement nevi ideas to reinforce those existing programs. • The fourth and final component of each action description is a discussion of the costs and sources of funding necessary to implement the action. Tvpicall\. costs for each action are estimated in one of three ranges: LOW (less than 515.000). MEDIUM (515.000 to S50.000). and HIGH (greater than S50.000). The text indicates whether