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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,November 28,2011 Page 7 Mayor Roe reiterated Mr. Miller's comments that the DVD requests may not be exclusive to City Council meetings. Mr. Miller concurred, noting that requests ranged from City Council meetings; Commission meetings; and again noted that this additional fee request originated from Chief Mathwig related to regulatory issues and reflected the true cost of the staff time involved in providing DVD's. However, Mr. Miller advised that staff would proceed at the direction of the City Council. Councilmember McGehee opined that she was in favor of leaving the DVD charge as is for the next meeting until the Police Department could provide their rationale for the proposed fee; and suggested that in the future a database could be set up to allow the public to burn their own DVD's. Mayor Roe, suggested that one course of action the Council could take would be to leave the current fee as is, not to increase it to $25; noting that the Fee Schedule could be amended in the future after staff provided additional information. Regarding the proposed leaf pick up fee at $50, Councilmember Johnson ques- tioned if this was 100%user-sponsored, and no longer subsidized by the City. Mr. Miller responded affirmatively. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Public Works Director Duane Schwartz advised that there were roughly 9,000 residential properties in Rose- ville, with approximately 1100 participating in the leaf pickup program this last year; and that the fee was structured to make the program payable through that user fee and included staff time. Councilmember Willmus opined that the City could be making better use of staff time rather than performing leaf pickup. Mr. Schwartz noted that, given other storm water management mandates for the City, as well as ongoing staffing challenges within the department, this program did not rank high in its overall mission; and further noted that there were other opportunities for residents to address their leaves. Councilmember Willmus questioned if part of the rationale for the leaf pickup program was based on the need to clean storm gutters. Mr. Schwartz responded affirmatively; however, he noted that this year, for the first time, the City had diligently tracked staff time for each portion of storm wa- ter management, including cleaning gutters and catch basins and other related ac- tivities. Mr. Schwartz noted that, in the past in conjunction with the leaf pickup program, each crew would take a specific area to address all activities at the same;