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l <br />REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />Date.- 7/14/08 <br />Item No..- 12.e <br />Department Approval City Manager Approval <br />A <br />Item Description.- Staff Report on Citizen or Council Budget Requests Suggestions <br />1 BACKGROUND <br />2 On June 9,, 2008 the City held a public hearing to solicit community input on the 2009 Budget. The <br />3 purpose of the hearing was to provide a forum in which citizens or stakeholders could submit budget <br />4 suggestions or comments. Councilmembers were then asked to incorporate those comments and finalize <br />5 their own budget suggestions for consideration. <br />6 <br />"7 At the hearing and in subsequent Council discussions, the following issues or sentiments were raised.- <br />9 ❖ Additional funding for sidewalks, pathways, and tree replacements in the parks and on City <br />1 boulevards (Submitted by Councilmember Ihlan)i <br />Funding for 'Welcome to Roseville' signs (Mayor Klausing) <br />12 ❖ New bathroom at the arboretum (citizen) <br />13 ❖ Consider adding a drive-up window at the License Center (citizen) <br />14 ❖ Additional funds from retail centers such as Rosedale and Har Mar to pay for related police and fire <br />1 costs (citizen) <br />16 ❖ Payment in lieu of taxes from Northwestern College (citizen) <br />1 7 Create additional economies of scale by expanding partnerships with neighboring cities like we do <br />1 with our information technology and engineering divisions (citizen) <br />19 ❖ Consider having Ramsey County take over our Police function (citizen), <br />20 Evaluate take-home cars for the City; Public policy reasons? Impact on environment? (citizen), <br />2 1 ❖ Evaluate water and sewer senior discount; why should families subsidize more affluent seniors? <br />22 (citizen), <br />23 ❖ Consider establishing an street light utility (citizen), <br />24 ❖ Consider turning off lights at City Hall and the Holiday lights on the Civic Center Campus to save <br />25 energy (citizen) <br />26 <br />27 The budgetary and operational impacts of these issues are addressed in the attached Staff memos where <br />2,,,i applicable. <br />29 POLICY OBJECTIVE <br />3�,,:-) A Staff report on citizen or Council budget requests and suggestions was identfied on the 2009 Budget <br />3 1 Calendar as outlined in Resolution 410588,, dated January 7, 2008. <br />Page I of 12 <br />