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Special City Council Meeting Thursday,May 22, 2014 Page 20 fund the General Fund and Levy. Mayor Roe opined that this would be important information for that future conversation. Councilmember Willmus concurred with Mayor Roe's information request; and at his request, Mr. Miller clarified that the License Center reserves were at $924,0000, with roughly $800,000 available, with the remaining funds needed to provide cash flow for meeting general expenses and payroll, and not completely drain the fund. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Miller clarified that the Finance Department was levy supported; and the proposed new IT position would be 100% Roseville levy supported, with some of the IT expense possibly borne by other cities, bur a sizable increase of the IT operational costs exported to other cities in the consorti- um. As a follow-up to that statement, Councilmember Willmus noted his preference raised in the past to define a multiplier, even though he was now aware that couldn't be accomplished. Mr. Miller responded that this was due to the IT function itself and how the con- sortium worked and Roseville's investment in that business model. Mr. Miller noted that he had provided that more detailed information in his April 4, 2014 memorandum to the City Council; with what the City charged to other cities not done by use of a multiplier based on the rationale for that support situation; with the City unable to apply a multiplier to recover its overhead costs, when providing service to other cities, when those cities often provided their space, electricity and resources at their sites versus at the City of Roseville. Mr. Miller further noted that it was difficult to ask those entities to pay Roseville overhead costs when the employees were not working at the Roseville City Hall. Mr. Miller noted that some of the City's IT staff didn't even set up shop at Roseville; and in addition, many of those entities provided storage space to house Roseville equipment in their server rooms (e.g. City of No. St. Paul), but did not charge Roseville for rent or power, while allowing Roseville to store data and house servers at their loca- tions free of charge. Mr. Miller advised that a multiplier was designed to recover overhead, and was different than engineering examples and other situations. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Miller agreed that the approxi- mate overall cost the overall increase was approximately$132,000. Community Development Department (City Manager Patrick Trudgeon) City Manager Trudgeon advised that he, City Planner Paschke, and Code Officer Don Munson had developed the 2015 budget for the Community Development Department.