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EXTRACT OF MINUTES OF MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEVILLE Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Roseville, County of Ramsey, Minnesota, was duly held on the 29th day of January, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. The following members were present: Laliberte, McGehee, Willmus, Etten and Roe and the following members were absent: none. Council member Willmus introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION No. 11490 RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE MAINTENANCE OF LOCAL LICENSE BUREAUS WHEREAS,the State of Minnesota established a deputy registrar network to provide our citizens with motor vehicle titling and registration services, including driver license transactions; and, WHEREAS,deputy registrars are required to operate as agents on behalf of the State of Minnesota without compensation from the State for the services they offer; and, WHEREAS, in 1949,the State of Minnesota established in statute a user-based filing fee on motor vehicle and driver license transactions to be retained by the deputy registrar to defray all their costs to provide this localized service to our citizens for the State; and, WHEREAS, the State of Minnesota now receives over$1 billion annually in state fees and taxes collected through the deputy registrar network; and, WHEREAS, the State of Minnesota has now shifted substantial clerical and auditing responsibilities onto the deputy registrar network due to the State's conversion to their new MNLARS (Minnesota Licensing and Registration System) program; and, WHEREAS,the new MNLARS regimen is now documented to have multiple shortcomings which have severely strained normal deputy registrar operations with longer processing times that greatly limit their typical volume of daily business; and, WHEREAS, other MNLARS shortcomings have frequently forced deputies to conduct"no-(filing) fee" services for customers which acerbates the deputy business model; and, WHEREAS, deputy registrar offices are now forced to invest in additional staff, office equipment, and more space to meet customer demand due to the MNLARS conversion; and, WHEREAS,the filing fee revenue no longer covers the operational costs to maintain deputy registrar offices such that many local government-based deputies are seeking local property tax subsidies and private operators are applying for lines of credit to stave off complete closure,