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Special City Council Meeting Thursday,May 22,2014 Page 17 Councilmember Laliberte questioned if, with the new bus rapid transit line (BRT) along Snelling Avenue, would the City be expected to do any additional policing beyond Metro Transit's security personnel. Mr. Mathwig responded that Metro Transit generally did not ask the City to patrol their stops unless they have preliminary information; and don't expect to provide assistance if asked to do so. Regarding volunteer recognition, Councilmember Etten questioned what was cur- rently being done for park patrol and other segments. Mr. Mathwig advised hat currently forfeiture funds were used to pay for that recognition; with the funding switch being requested to recognize that volunteer effort on behalf of the commu- nity, opining that it should therefore be part of the annual levy in recognizing the service provided. With the status of forfeiture funds and new legislation, Councilmember Willmus questioned what Mr. Mathwig's forecasts were for future funding levels. Mr. Mathwig responded that, at this time, the only thing he was aware of was the funds were more towards fleeing and other incidents that wouldn't involve the City department. Finance Director Chris Miller With the Finance Department segregated into three divisions (Finance & Ac- counting, Information Technology(IT), and License Center), Mr. Miller reviewed each. Mr. Miller noted that the IT segment now served the Roseville City Hall campus and thirty-five other buildings, still growing in number. Mr. Miller advised that the department's number one budget priority for 2015 was to provide additional IT engineering staff to support the City of Roseville needs. Mr. Miller reviewed the growth of the IT segment over the last decade as new technology solutions and software applications had been implemented by the City of Roseville. While opining that this was the right path, and a return on invest- ment was obvious, Mr. Miller noted that the City had been remiss and deferred formally acknowledging the need for back-end support for those applications. In 2014 local dollars, Mr. Miller noted that the City's IT engineering staff was still supported by two FTE's, the same as it had been ten years ago, even though the business had doubled in size, IT support had not. Mr. Miller opined that the only reason the department survived is due to the dedicated salaried employees putting in 60 plus hours per week and on call 24/7. As he previously discussed with the City Council periodically over the last eighteen months, Mr. Miller recommended that the City hire two additional network engineer positions, their greatest need, with the current staffing for desktop and application support being adequate at this time.