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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 05, 2011 Page 5 versus "needs." Ms. Alexander stated that the City had needs to be addressed before those wants; and expressed her disappointment in the amount of money spent on studies that are ignored (e.g. County Road C-2 closure) and a community survey that simply pro-. vided obvious results (e.g. high priority of the community for good service). Regarding the recent Parks Survey, Ms. Alexander admitted that it was a good survey; however, she questioned whether the outcome of the survey supported a bond issue, since most of the items were beyond needs. While Roseville is noted regionally for its park system, Ms. Alexander opined that it was a want, while water/sewer systems were a need; and further opined that to make citizens responsible for such huge outlays for wants was irresponsi- ble of the Roseville City Council. John Koziol, 930 Brenner Avenue Mr. Koziol referenced a recent article in the Roseville Review regarding funding for a new fire station and park improvements and their costs. Mr. Koziol opined that while a new fire station and/or park improvements may be needed, it seemed that the park im- provements involved a variety of bits and pieces instead of a major item, and seemed to represent discretionary spending based on today's economy. If a bond issue did not pass, Mr. Koziol opined that the park system would not collapse; and if a fire station bond was not issued, it would simply mean that firefighters would need to continue working under adverse conditions. However, Mr. Koziol questioned how and when costs of the bonding would impact him personally. Mr. Koziol noted that his property tax statement for 2012 indicated a 10/7% increase; and given the financial stresses for individuals and property owners at this time, opined that some of the City's discretionary spending could be de- ferred. Mr. Koziol asked that for those proponents or supporters of the park system, they consider impacts to property taxes as they evaluated park system amenities; and ex- pressed his hope that the bond issue was turned down. Roni Jana, 1778 Ryan Avenue W As a Roseville resident for over eighty(80) years, and whose home was listed on the Her- itage Foundation, Ms. Jana stated that she had recently requested removal from that list, as she no longer thought much of the City of Roseville. Ms. Jana noted the need for a good fire department, and spoke in support of the department based on her personal expe- rience with a house fire in 2006; however, Ms. Jana expressed sorrow in the way the City of Roseville was going. Ms. Jana expressed her previous interest in living in Roseville until she died; however, with her property values continuing to go down and increased costs to live in Roseville, Ms. Jana didn't know how she could continue to do so on a fixed income. Kelly Lynch,446 West County Road B As a first-time participant or observer of a City Council meeting, Ms. Lynch noted that she was just now catching up on city events and was therefore using her voice to ask that the City Council vote down bonding issued. Ms. Lynch expressed her frustration and echoed the comments of previous speakers that it was not fair to ask people of Roseville to pay for wants when individual homeowners could not do so with their own budgets.