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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 11, 2019 Page 11 f. Consider Police Commitment to Diversity Staffing Program Police Chief Rick Mathwig briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the RCA and related attachments dated February 11, 2019. Deputy Chief Scheider was also at the meeting to answer questions. Councilmember Etten asked in regard to a Cadet position, has it worked as a way to keep someone or if the person is deemed good enough for the Cadet position is the person really great enough for another full-time officer position and why would the person stay to be a Cadet. He wondered if that is a successful model or are these people so desirable and hirable that it is not really a useful step. Chief Mathwig stated the Police Department has a really small sample with one Cadet in recent history and that Cadet left Roseville Police Department for the DNR because that position was open before a police position was available in Ro- seville. He thought it was a step in the right direction. Councilmember Etten wondered if using the Cadet position as a way to keep a person was really a good way to keep them. Chief Mathwig stated it is not the most useful step to use a Cadet only to keep someone in the City that is a valuable employee. Councilmember Etten stated one of the things discussed at a meeting he had with the Police Department and City Staff was whether the dollars would be levied an- nually and whether the Police Department had someone or not. He noted that based on Attachment A in the packet, it indicates this would be funded each year with excess returned to the General Fund. He asked if this was something the Po- lice Department intended on doing. Chief Mathwig stated what the Police Department intended to do was to not ask for something that would not be needed in the next calendar year. He stated staff will work diligently to spec out when a CSO or Cadet is ready to go and be in consultation with Mr. Trudgeon to make sure the money is there. Mr. Trudgeon noted Attachment A was a part of the original presentation. In at- tachment D in the memorandum, the last bullet point states "These positions will be funded on an as-needed basis either through the annual budget or available funds in the department if need occurs during the year." The City would not au- tomatically put in funding for two additional positions in any budget process. On an annual basis, the City would look to see what the needs are and bring it for- ward for Council discussion and decision as needed.