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Special City Meeting Thursday, March 29, 2007 Page 15 of 20 needing public transportation and to discourage additional vehicles for environ- mental improvements, that may be a possible solution. Ms. Berry noted that the City's Metropolitan Council representative, Ms. Chris Sanda, noted that there was a circulator bus that served the community; however, many expressed a lack of knowledge of the scheduling and complained about the consistency of service. Ms. Berry suggested there may be ways to better publicize the routes and schedule. Councilmember Pust noted that there was the circulator bus serving seniors through the Community Education program, as well as the NSSC that ran a shuttle bus. She opined that this was one example of two different entities trying to run a transit service, designed for the saIne population, and neither breaking even opera- tionally; and suggested this was a good area to begin seeking to make one program as administratively efficient as possible, and a way to determine actual need, how to achieve efficiencies, how to establish fees, and how to accomplish a good pro- . gram. Mr, Majerus noted that the underlying point with citizens discussing finance and revenue issues, was that while visioning is wonderful, we as a community need to know what it's going to cost, and to be clear on where the money is coming from and where it's going. Ms. Berry noted that the community's willingness to invest was reflected in the successes of levy referendums for the City as well as the School District. Mr. Majerus observed that success was due to established goals, vision, commu- nity education and involvement and clarity of each issue. Councilmember Ihlan questioned whether comments were heard regarding promo- tion and encouragement of small business in Roseville, and if that diverse revenue base was reflected in goal statements. Mr. Keel noted that those issues were reflected in strategies, and were supportive of small businesses. Next Steps / Implementation Mr. Keel noted that the goals and strategies were a nice picture of what citizens wanted the community to look like; however, that the implementation plan would be handed over to the City Council to achieve results.