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Volunteer Coordinator Need It is hoped that the volunteer coordinator could help continue or even improve the services and facilities the residents of Roseville want or feel they should be receiving. A volunteer coordinator and volunteers can help and reinforce existing critical staff maintain existing city programs and facilities by supporting and/or supplementing them so they can accomplish more tasks on that critical program or facility or enable critical staff to work on other items. Thus a volunteer coordinator and the associated volunteers could be a valuable piece of the puzzle that could provide a great value to each department and the community as a whole. Impact The volunteer coordinator is not envisioned to be a gate keeper or guard that would restrict the passage of existing volunteers from getting to the departments or programs they have volunteered for in the past. In fact the volunteer coordinator would act as an automated sorting machine that would make sure all vohmteers would get to the departments and programs they wish to work in as efficiently as possible. The impact should be a positive impact enabling the city to accomplish more with less. Budget Impact No fiends are yet included for this position. Staff has estimated to be $42 to $52,000 (including benefits) per year for a full time employee to be a volunteer coordinator. That equates to about $10.00 per volunteer to coordinate 500 volunteers each year. I personally believe that a highly motivated volunteer coordinator could easily recruit even. more volunteers and lower that cost to the point where the staff and program. savings could end up paying for this position entirely. ~. -= -- _ ~~ Request: It has alw~s been my intent to discuss the possibility of a volunteer coordinator during budget review process. Therefore, I would like to request staff to provide the following: 1) A List of all tasks volunteers do now for each department (not commissioners, reserve officers) 2) Staff to look at this as if they are getting these volunteers and determine what jobs would they be able to give them to eliviate the stress on current staff to do the work they are unable to get to now. Develop a list of what tasks these volunteer could do to help your department even above and beyond what is currently being done by their existing volunteers. 3) Any potential savings (staff time, program $$, etc) to their department based on the lists above.