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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,October 14,2013 Page 30 At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Miller advised that no one had yet left the user group. Councilmember McGehee thanked Mr. Miller for the presentation; and expressed her more clear understanding of the business model and her continued support for it. Mayor Roe suggested that it would be helpful to have this information more pub- lically available under the City's IT section of the website, so the public had a bet- ter understanding of the consortium, its purpose and how it was funded. Mr. Miller noted that the City did not advertise or market this service, but its growth had been strictly by word-of-mouth; and even though it has created extra work for the City's IT Manager Terre Heiser, the millions of dollars saved for participants was felt to be worth it. At the request of Councilmember Laliberte, Mr. Miller noted that there were not many grant opportunities available for this IT area, other than several years ago in extending the fiber network. However, Mr. Miller advised that staff needed to do a better job of looking for those grant opportunities, even though this consortium was unprecedented. Councilmember Willmus expressed interest in seeing if other communities would be willing to pick up direct costs for standby personnel and fund them within their organizations (e.g. workers compensation, etc.). Mr. Miller noted that he liked the concept, and it was currently being done on a limited basis with the City of Maplewood; however, he questioned how you pro- vided work direction to an employee you didn't supervise. Mr. Miller advised that the Cities of Roseville and Maplewood had only been doing this trial for 6-12 months, and he would want to review the various aspects more carefully. Councilmember Willmus opined that it could be defined in the JPA, but recog- nized it as a valid concern. For the benefit of the listening audience, Mayor Roe clarified that this Metro I- Net terminology was more of a network of participants as opposed to a physical network like a fiber optic network, another institutional fiber network (INET) provided to the City of Roseville as part of its cable franchise, currently with Comcast, and part of ongoing discussions for the renewal of the franchise agree- ment with them. Mayor Roe sought to provide distinction between the two areas. 14. City Manager Future Agenda Review 15. Councilmember Initiated Items for Future Meetings