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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,February 25, 2013 Page 12 and schools for education and intervention, allowing youth to work with their peers creating a powerful relationship. Mr. Hromatka revised what Roseville's support of the NYFS bought, providing services to all residents of partner municipalities, with nine (9) of the ten (10) original municipalities still part of the NYFS. Mr. Hromatka reviewed some of the benefits for residents and member communities to provide an effective work force and citizenship beyond just voting,but encouraging good neighbors, friends, and classmates, basically emotional intelligence. Mr. Hromatka opined that this eventually reduced public costs by providing a social return on their investment through this early intervention. Mr. Hromatka noted that member community partnerships also allowed the NYFS to leverage other resources through matching grant funds by using some of the funds received from municipalities. Mr. Hromatka provided a service summary for 2011 and 2012 broken down by program: counseling, diversion, youth employment, and the senior chore program. At the previous request of City Manager Malinen, Mr. Hromatka highlighted the NYFS's recent merger with the White Bear Lake Area Community Counseling Center, and how it was proving to be a good move, not because bigger is better, but through additional resources and spreading overhead costs, allowing expan- sion of services through five main school districts and fifteen partner municipali- ties. Given the expanded area, Mr. Hromatka advised that an upcoming name change was being discussed to represent a more metro-area agency. Mr. Hromatka noted that corporate partnerships were a great advantage for the NYFS program, and provided several examples of commitments of some of those partnerships and impacts to youth in providing information and career information to assist with that long-term outlook and potential opportunities. Mr. Hromatka noted that social media was providing additional contribution op- portunities. Mr. Hromatka addressed the continual changes made and ever-evolving consider- ations made to ensure that NYFS remained vital and current and to ensure finan- cial sustainability of the NYFS, with 55% of its funding needs coming from con- tracts, 15% from municipalities, and the remainder through grants and other sources. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Hromatka addressed her con- cerns for students expelled from school and banned from school property, and how they may find themselves in negative situations and on the streets. Mr. Hromatka noted numerous programs available and specific to those youth.