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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 26, 2013 Page 4 Etten moved, McGehee seconded, approval of the following claims and payments as presented. Check Series # Amount ACH Payments $41,819.32 71102— 71155 328,570.04 Total $370,389.36 Roll Call Ayes: McGehee; Laliberte; Etten; and Roe. Nays: None. Abstentions: Willmus. d. Receive 2013 Second Quarter Financial Report At the request of Mayor Roe, Interim City Manager Trudgeon briefly summarized the Request for Council Action (RCA) dated August 26, 2013. A revised page 2 of 13 of the Citywide Financial Summary had been provided by staff as a bench handout at the meeting, Councilmember McGehee noted that on the Water Fund Summary (page 10 of 13), with recently increased base rates among the highest in the metropolitan area, the Fund continued to operate at a considerable deficit, with no recommendations in place to repay the internal operational loan. Councilmember McGehee advised that her removal of this item was intended to bring to the City Council's consider- ation the possibility of a future bond issue to address that deficit, with water ser- vices were becoming an undue burden to Roseville homeowners. For the benefit of the listening audience, Mayor Roe clarified that the changes made to the base rate had been recognized as not solving the problems with the fund in years 1 or 2; but going forward, the deficit should be resolved with only inflationary increases in the CIP specific to this fund; with the internal loan paid off through adjustments to user rates, with those plans in place. Councilmember McGehee suggested that Mayor Roe was unnecessarily defen- sive of the CIP recommendations made by a task force of the previous Council. She requested that in the future he try to consider that others may have different opinions and respect those opinions. Mayor Roe expressed appreciation for Councilmember McGehee's comments; however, he stated that he felt it was important to share the additional information with the public as he had chosen to do. Councilmember McGehee stated that she wanted to make sure all of the issues were in mind in November during final budget discussions.