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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 2, 2013 Page 20 age; and noted that it didn't send a good message to staff. By incorporating the 2% COLA for 2014, Councilmember Etten opined that it continued to keep the City of Roseville comparable with the market place and those peer communities; with the City only making that adjustment every decade, and entirely different than the annual COLA consideration. Request for Additional Funding for Senior Programs (RASP) Mayor Roe sought City Council comment and/or consensus on the request for ad- ditional funding for RASP from the current $6,000 annually to $10,000 annually. Councilmember Willmus stated that he need more information on how those dol- lars are allocated; opining that as a representative of Roseville taxpayers, he could not subsidize programs for other communities; and needed a better understanding of how those dollars were flowing to Roseville taxpayers. Mr. Trudgeon noted that Mr. Miller had sent supplemental information earlier to- day. Mayor Roe noted that the supplemental information indicated that 2/3 of the peo- ple using some RASP programs were from Roseville, with Roseville citizens rep- resenting 80% of the RASP transportation program. If the program took their $63,000 projected loss and allocated it proportionately to member cites, Mayor Roe advised that it would amount to something like $46,000 — not the $10,000 being requested. While they were looking for additional funding, Councilmember Etten referenced the comments of Mr. Toogood earlier tonight; and opined that further review and analysis of how this program was working through and with the community to serve seniors. While having no problem increasing funding to this program, Councilmember Etten asked that the senior program look at directly working with and pushing more with other member communities to assist with this deficit, opining that the entire $63,000 was not entirely up to the City of Roseville, but expressed his willingness to help. While not begrudging RASP the additional $4,000, Councilmember McGehee suggested a task force to look at Roseville specifically, to address those goals and plans for the community. Councilmember McGehee recognized this as a great program, and noted that historically, the City had scraped off functions for seniors in Roseville to the School District, she suggested it may be time to step forward and fund the whole thing or plan for its own senior programming. At the prompting of Mayor Roe, Mr. Trudgeon responded that, while too prema- ture at this point to make a determination, a future discussion should be held, and consideration given to hearing more dialogue from the community on senior is- sues, and formation of a task force to study those issues and look at them collabo-