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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 9,2013 Page 10 ing for the City's Capital Improvement Program (CIP), with application of unan- ticipated Local Government Aid (LGA) funding in 2014, but not yet meeting long-term sustainability of the CIP and requiring further discussion. Mr. Miller noted that, aside from a few select items, this budget did not include additional funding for City Council strategic plan or directives in continuing to address community visioning for Imagine Roseville 2015, but basically retained a status quo budget. Public Comment John Kysylyczyn,3083 N Victoria Street Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that the first page of the RCA and subsequent pages were misleading as to the actual levy increase. Mayor Roe clarified that the 5.6%on page 1 was the increase to the spending side of the budget, as explained by Finance Director Miller during his presentation, with the 4.4%representing the increase to the tax-supported levy. While not yet having an opportunity to review the proposed budget in detail, Mr. Kysylyczyn expressed his concern with the proposed 4.4% levy increase serving to grow government larger than the rate of inflation, with this proposed levy in- crease on top of previous annual levy increases, indicating a growing pattern. While budget materials attempted to show a minimal monthly impact for taxpay- ers, Mr. Kysylyczyn noted that it added up to hundreds of additional dollars annu- ally coming out of his family budget. As a small business owner, and given the economy, Mr. Kysylyczyn advised that he was unable to raise his rates for his cli- ents accordingly to meet those increases. Specific to the proposed employee compensation adjustment also on tonight's agenda, Mr. Kysylyczyn provided a bench handout, attached hereto and made a part hereof, referencing the City of Lexington and their intent to make an employ- ee COLA of 2%. Mr. Kysylyczyn advised that he was troubled by the proposed funds for employee compensation over a 2% COLA. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that his concerns were generally based on having tax-funded employees using taxpay- er funds to generate a report to get more money for taxpayer paid employees, which appeared to be a conflict of interest to him, with no third party doing the study. Mr. Kysylyczyn noted that the City of Lexington had used a labor man- agement attorney for their study, and expressed concern that this study was bi- ased, and did not provide any factual, hard-core information saying City of Rose- ville employees were not being paid enough for the jobs they were being asked to perform. Mr. Kysylyczyn stated that some luestions that he wanted answered included: does the City currently have a problem recruiting people to work; is the City re- taining employees; does the City advertise jobs with no one or few applying; is the City retaining employees, and if so for how long. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that the study provided no information to address those questions; however, he noted