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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, December 4, 2017 Page 7 may be an important consideration, when he looked at the number of burglaries reported in Police Department reports and their annual run rate of 200 plus per year with each having the potential for loss of lives, asked if some consideration had been given to allocating money in the operating budget for more police pa- trols to address Roseville burglaries, whether residential or commercial. From the perspective of financial management, Mr. Trovato suggested further consideration of releasing additional reserve funds in 2018 to further hold down taxes as much as possible and then rebuild them in 2019 and going forward. With no one else appearing to speak, Mayor Roe closed the public hearing at ap- proximately 7:21 p.m. Mayor Roe clarified that no action was intended tonight, intentionally allowing time for the City Council to reflect on public hearing comments and final adop- tion next week. Mayor Roe sought any additional information requests from in- dividual council members to staff before that adoption. Also, Mayor Roe refer- enced various relief programs available for taxpayers ad provided by Finance Di- rector Miller during his presentation, and directed residents toward the application process. Council Deliberation Councilmember McGehee specifically asked Councilmember Willmus his inten- tions related to options or impacts he may be considering or prepared to propose for final levy and budget adoption at this time, asking that he share them now to allow consideration by his colleagues rather than bringing them forward from the bench at next week's meeting without time for broader deliberation. Councilmember Willmus recognized the 6.4% increase proposed for the 2018 levy at this time. When talking about median value homes and impacts to them, Councilmember Willmus opined that this led to interesting conversations, but at the same time didn't provide actual impacts for property owners. In response to Councilmember McGehee's question, Councilmember Willmus advised that he didn't have an actual proposal formulated or ready to share at this time; but admitted that he was intrigued by the recommendations made by the Fi- nance Commission, providing an option in addition to that presented by Mayor Roe earlier tonight. Councilmember Willmus stated that his real concern was with the city's history of setting its annual levy at a certain percentage for increase that then became the base for going forward. If that trend continued, Councilmember Willmus opined that future councils would be presented with a difficult conversation related to levies if and when the city didn't have a commercial tax base to make up the dif- ference.