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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 15,2013 Page 12 Mr. Brokke opined that they could help, but would not be able to perform the fine detailed cleaning. At the request of Councilmember Etten, Mr. Brokke advised that his department was currently much stretched, and often was the recipient of other departments in accomplishing its work load,particularly for special events; and could envision no additional sharing of current Parks & Recreation staff with other departments that may provide greater efficiencies. Mr. Brokke noted that during special events, all departments did their part, opining that this was one thing Roseville did very well, with a lot of sharing among and between departments. If there are areas to share, Mr. Brokke opined that staff found them; and as pointed out by Mr. Schwartz, it was a real benefit to be able to not hesitate and call on those other departments as needed and their immediate response to those needs. At the request of Councilmember Etten if the Administration Department was able to provide more support allowing individual departments to focus on their operations, Mr. Brokke responded that he would need to give that further consid- eration. Mr. Brokke reiterated that he didn't hesitate to call on Administration for help if and when needed; opining that every department had its own level of ex- pertise for everyone to rely on if not available within its own department; and fur- ther opined that it was important to continue that relationship under current staff- ing constraints. Councilmember Laliberte, in conjunction with Councilmember Etten's comments, asked that Mr. Brokke consider if there were functions that could be moved out of his department to Administration(e.g. purchasing). Councilmember Willmus noted Mr. Brokke's comments under "operational chal- lenges" related to trail plowing, advising that he continued to hear feedback dur- ing winter months that some trails are kept in their natural state to allow snow- shoeing and cross country skiing; and questioned if taking a percentage of trails outside the maintenance realm was possible. Mr. Brokke advised that some cross country skiing had been experimented with, including golf course trails and some around Acorn Park, However, Mr. Brokke advised that the overwhelming response fielded by staff was the public question- ing whey the trails were not being maintained for walkers, at which point, staff re- sponded by again plowing them. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Brokke clarified that the number of summer or seasonal employees was estimated at 150 annually, with some of those of one hour and some more per week, varying from year to year and part of delivering programs Mr. Brokke confirmed Mayor Roe's understanding that the seasonal employees were not included in the department's FTE count of 24.