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Special City Council Meeting Monday, May 27, 2015 Page 10 to address part of it; and making certain any agency partnering with Roseville was aware of those needs as well. Through the Department's restructuring and hiring revisions, Mr. Heiser advised that they would be doing tiered hiring structures, since a number of IT tasks could be met with lower-level skill sets paid at a lower rate and requiring technical ex- pertise or degrees providing they met aptitude tests. Mr. Heiser noted this would allow the City to offer opportunities to disadvantaged people that were qualified to perform that work. As part of this restructuring, Mr. Heiser advised that con- sideration was being given to how to restructure the IT Department, how to ac- commodate staffing, and how to build the structure for the future. Mr. Heiser advised that he had and Finance Department staff had met with other JPA cities last Friday, and the conclusion of that discussion was that in 2016, an additional seven employees would be needed, first and immediately to address public safety mobile units and access, with field laptops shoring up services and data storage; and then in 2017, infilling front line or computer support people. Mr. Heiser advised that other cities and agencies were presenting the same request to their City Council's or Authorities as well as this presentation tonight. Councilmember McGehee, noting the additional person hired to meet Roseville's specific needs and in reviewing the other 41 cities/agencies, not all having their own Police Departments or other mobile needs, questioned how expenses would be divided for these additional 7 employees; and if they were intended to be housed at Roseville, was there a physical plant issue in doing so. Mr. Heiser responded that the IT Department and its needs were divided into four major categories: computer support, server support, network operations and the management component, with every component weighed differently and depend- ing on the number of pc's with those other agencies, or other needs specific to them and how to divide. Mr. Heiser advised that all IT positions are weighted ac- cording to their role, and shares increased accordingly for the services required by an agency and calculated for those JPA's. Specific to space requirements, Mr. Heiser advised that this was a strength for the IT Department compared to other organizations, since they could work anywhere, or could be sent to other locations. Mr. Heiser noted IT staff typically didn't wor- ry about their work location, noting that not all IT staff was at Roseville City Hall on a daily basis at this time, and he saw no need to increase space to house addi- tional employees. While recognizing that tonight's discussion is very preliminary and general in na- ture, Councilmember Laliberte asked Mr. Heiser to look at the proposed tiered structure for reorganization and what it would look like.