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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 24, 2018 Page 12 Councilmember Laliberte wondered if Chief Mathwig could foresee that Rose- ville would have enough mental health cases for a full-time position or could this potentially be shared services with another city. Chief Mathwig thought the best course of action is a Mental Health Liaison Of- ficer that is a Roseville police officer. He did think there were enough families and people in crisis that needed help to justify the position. Plan B is talking with other Chiefs and the Sheriff about joining together and possibility of having that service paid by non-profit and shared services. There have been two meetings on that so far. He thought that was a good course of action but did not think it was the best. Councilmember McGehee stated not only did she think the shared service was a good idea but if talking about follow up and working with families that have these sorts of issues in their home, that is a service that the City EMT's are possibly al- ready able to think about and work with. She thought there were several options on the table. Councilmember McGehee wanted to verify that the City Manager's budget is just for the cost and the levy side just for the City was a 1.9% increase. The property tax portion of the budget is a 1.9% increase. She wanted to give a nod to staff that staff is holding themselves below the cost of living figure. Mr. Trudgeon pointed out that the 1.9% increase is for the property tax supported budget which totals approximately thirty million dollars but twenty million dollars of that is levy. Councilmember McGehee indicated that was what she was pointing out and wanted to give staff credit for the low budget numbers. Mayor Roe stated that was a challenge in people's perspective to see a 1.9% in- crease in the spending side, but a bigger increase proposed in the tax levy. The challenge is that the portion of that spending covered by the tax levy can vary de- pending on what other sources are doing. If the other sources are not providing support, the levy has to make up the difference, not to mention what is being dis- cussed about adding additional levy support for the notion of paying for operating expenses out of the actual revenues rather than using reserves, which the City has had the luxury of doing in the past but cannot continue to do if the reserves are not being replenished at the same time. Mayor Roe asked if there was anyone from the public that wished to speak on this item. Public Comment