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Attachment B collaboration. If there are communities that leave the collaboration then the City can either redistribute the costs or downsize the number of employees. . He explained the system that Roseville uses is standardized but the applications are separate. The end users are responsible for the applications. Roseville only ensures that these applications work on the network. Commissioner Zeller stated that it is Roseville’s obligation to fund future pension liabilities for City IT Staff. Continue Discussion on Establishing a Cash Reserve Fund Vice Chair Zeller stated the City Council had asked the Commission to review the concept of a cash reserve fund and to provide recommendations. The City Council also put forth a similar directive to staff to bring a recommendation in conjunction with the City Manager Recommended Budget. He stated these surpluses are the result of recurring overages in the operating budget in recent years. He asked if the problem should be addressed at the source. He stated there had been discussions to use these funds for special projects. He expressed concerns that this would skew the budgeting process to produce excess fund for special projects. The City should not rely on surplus funds. Commissioner McRoberts stated that if a department was continually under spending then that department’s budget should be reviewed so they are not producing a surplus every year. Vice Chair Zeller stated if departments took into account their surplus during the next budgeting cycle then the there would not be the continued surplus year over year. Commissioner Bachhuber stated that if the City is budgeting based on a surplus then there could be large fluctuations in the levy to account for the years that there was not a surplus. Finance Director Miller explained that surpluses were generally the result of vacancies within the City. Commissioner Harold stated one advantage of having the cash reserve fund would be that there is no set designation where the funds would go and this would keep departments from building reserve funds for a future use. He stated all of the operating funds cash reserves that are not legally restricted should be included in the cash reserve fund and not just the general fund. He also stated having flexibility in what these reserve funds could be used for would allow using these funds for the operating budget if needed and not just future initiatives. Commissioner McRoberts asked what the Commission was hoping to address by creating a cash reserve fund. He stated this may need to be defined in order to understand what the reserve fund would accomplish.