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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 16, 2015 Page 24 tionships. Chief O'Neill stated that one of those steps was to see what enhanced services could be provided for and best serve all of each of those customers at the end of the day. Mayor Roe noted that one existing benefit for Rainsey County not present else- where was a coirunon dispatch service through Ramsey County (with the excep- tion of the City of White Bear Lalce who had their own system); and therefore opined it inight create a unique situation allowing this to work. Mayor Roe sug- gested it was iinportant not to iinply that Roseville residents were more important than those living outside its jurisdictional boundaries, while at the same time not causing negative impacts for Roseville's residents. Mayor Roe noted that the cur- rent system and incidents in Roseville or outside of the community required a de- cision to be inade, whether or not involving a cardiac call it remained a decision and process that needed to happen. Mayor Roe opined that this sounded like this was intended to make it easier and better for the person on the end of that third call. Chief O'Neill concurred, noting that only through this brand-new technology of automatic vehicle locators (AVL) and the new CAD software system in May of 2015 had this ability becoine available. Councilmember McGehee asked if it would be possible going forward to come back in the first quarter to tell the City Council how many calls Roseville made outside the community and how many calls were answered in Roseville by others from outside Roseville in order to see proportionality how this worked in practice. As part of that, Councilmember McGehee also asked for the Roseville depart- ment's evahiation as to whether or not they saw any unreasonable delay or serious cases because they were dispatched elsewhere. Chief O'Neill stated emphatically that this would be an ongoing evahiation. Chief O'Neill advised that the next step would be for them to return to the City Council — as would the other participating jurisdictions in Ramsey County — with a joint powers agreement, mostly likely in the spring of 2016. Chief O'Neill ad- vised that they would have additional and more detailed information for the City Council at that tiine as well, including which municipalities had opted in or opted out; along with test guidelines proposed to evaluate the extremely important data needed to evaluate this pilot program. Councihnember Laliberte asked if there would be any budget implications for 2016, such as a CAD software update. Chief O'Neill advised that the City Attorney provided his legal assistance for the process as part of their contract, anticipating no additional costs associated, and costs for the AVL and CAD had occurred last May.