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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 19, 2015 Page 11 move this function from Ms. Anfang internally to an existing employee, based on the steps taken to gain efficiencies. City Manager Trudgeon advised that staff would provide that additional infor- mation to the City Council in more detail, but as a preliininary response noted that, while communications efforts had been retooled for a inore centralized ap- proach, a lot of communication worlc continued to be done on a department level. Mr. Trudgeon noted this was especially evident in the Parks & Recreation De- partment given their annual recreation programs; and many of their employees going beyond the capacity of a nor�nal work day. Mr. Trudgeon noted that the communication efforts in that department had been streamlined somewhat. However, City Manager Trudgeon advised that while the coinmunications efforts had been restructured, he could not equate that to a significant dollar savings. In order to do so, Mr. Trudgeon advised that he would have to talce all communica- tion efforts away. Mr. Trudgeon recognized that Councilmember Laliberte had asked this question in the past, but also recognized that the City was also doing more cominunicating than in the past, therefore, he couldn't identify anything specific for cost savings, even though he and staff continued to look to further evolve those efforts, but it was a challenge in defining actual dollars. Specific to the Parks & Recreation Department, Mr. Trudgeon reported that he and Parlcs & Recreation Director Lonnie Brolcke continually discussed how to address staffing issLies; and advised that to-date no other sohition or staff capacity had been found beyond part-time staff to address this need. Based on his recollection in approving the coinmunication reorganization, Mayor Roe stated that it was not intended to necessarily free up Parks & Recreation staff and time, but simply bringing them bacic down to the work level of what their job description actually entailed before that additional work had been added, or in other words back to a sane level. As part of a fiiture discussion and in requesting adclitional staff information, Councilmember Willmus asked for a historical full-time employee (FTE) count and trending over the last few years for the Parks & Recreation Department. Specific to the proposed new passport supervisor and auto dealer license specialist positions, Councilmeinber Laliberte noted that creating new positions would not necessarily create additional businesses. Therefore, Councilmeinber Laliberte asked staff to provide additional information showing ideas for pursuing memo- randums of understanding (MOU's) or agreeinents with automobile dealers or au- to rental companies or other options to know those agreements or commitments from auto dealerships are in-hand before adding these high level positions and their related annual costs. Councilmember Laliberte further stated that, included in that information request she would be looking to how more revenue would be gained in the passport area, recognizing the mandates and firewall in separating