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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 20, 2017 Page 21 place, network engineers could work on network issues versus troubleshooting desk top users. Finance Director Miller noted that system engineers performed many proactive tasks to avoid system failures, and the more time they could spend on that versus troubleshooting for end users, the better the overall system's uptime became. Mr. Mayfield concurred, noting that by keeping that high level staff at Roseville, the better benefit to the City of Roseville as well. At its very function, Finance Director Miller noted that the collaboration created and partnering agencies involved in the consortium were all impacted by and sen- sitive to their respective taxpayers. In Roseville, Mr. Miller noted that this creat- ed an opportunity to add three new positions without any tax increase, with the funding provided through tower rentals; and further improving internet service connection sharing and the economies of scale created with these opportunities. Mr. Miller reported that each of the partnering agencies had already agreed to move forward in supporting this additional staffing and paying their proportionate share of the three positions. Mr. Miller advised that the Roseville share would amount to $45,000, fully covered through existing funding sources for the IT function. With tower fees going into the IT capital funding stream, Mayor Roe noted the need to make sure the city remained conscious that it not deplete funding for its own capital needs. Finance Director Miller concurred, noting that the hardware share for Roseville amounted to $200,000 annually, with the levy not impacted for non -equipment expenses paid by tower rental fees. At the request of Mayor Roe, Finance Director Miller confirmed that the $45,000 constituted reserves in tower fees, since inflators were built into each of those agreements, with the increases greater than inflation rates to -date. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Mr. Miller advised that funding, if not available from tower fees in the future, would come from other funds and charge - backs. Referencing the charts on page 3 of the staff report, Councilmember Willmus sought clarification on the 5.6 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees spending 67% of their time on Roseville needs. Finance Director Miller clarified that chart, based on the total number of employ- ees and percentage of time spent in Roseville or on other agencies; and actual