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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 16,2014 Page 21 a model to move six paid on-call firefighters to a full-time position, while leaving the remaining 59 part-time on-call positions in place, at least until she received the additional figures as previously stated. Councilmember McGehee advised that she was not supportive of commercial police officers for a variety of reasons, the least of which was that it would nullify the specifically-negotiated agreement with WalMart. If the City could work out a PILOT program with the University of Northwestern, Councilmember McGehee opined that a reasonable agreement or program could surely be worked out for retail areas to make a contribution to support police services that they apparently so badly needed. Councilmember McGehee noted that the Cities of Bloomington and Edina had done so, and ques- tioned why the City of Roseville could not manage to do so as well. Mayor Roe advised that he was generally supportive of the Fire Department con- version in the long-term, but needed to look at the numbers further. Mayor Roe advised that he would support the right-of-way technician, but could not support the customer service position for utilities,based on his desire not to further impact utility fees at this time. Mayor Roe advised that he was supportive of the IT posi- tion if there was a way to pay for it; but was not supportive of any commercial pa- trol officers at this time. Councilmember Laliberte advised that she was somewhat in agreement with Councilmember Etten on the forestry position; but needed a discussion sooner ra- ther than later to understand how the departments worked together with that need and cost allocations. Mayor Roe and Councilmember McGehee concurred with Councilmember Laliberte's comments on the forestry position. Councilmember Willmus advised that he would support no positions at this time until he received the City Manager Recommended Budget. Councilmember Etten advised that he supported the IT position to alleviate the current work load of the senior department staff, but was concerned with the levy impact and needed suggestions from staff on how they intended to fund the posi- tion to avoid a significant levy impact. Councilmember McGehee spoke in support of the IT position as well. Desired Changes in Programs or Service Levels As previously stated, Mayor Roe noted that the most recent community survey indicated that residents were happy with the current levels, and questioned if there were any areas that needed adjusting from individual City Councilmember per- spectives.