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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 25, 2019 Page 22 Mayor Roe thought that was a good point and would be fine. He thought the Council should do an after-process review to see if anything needed to be changed related to the interview process. e. Consider Adopting Resolutions of Support for House File 2031 and Other Legislation Altering Local Government Aid Funding Formulas City Manager Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the RCA and related attachments dated March 25, 2019. Mayor Roe thought as this moves forward, it might make sense to combine this into one resolution. He stated he did check with Finance Director Miller and the City does receive some State Aid and MSA funds to help with streets. He noted the City received about $400,000 in the last year in what is known as Police State Aid, which is based on the number of officers and things like that. He was not sure if it contributed towards retirement funding under police PERA or more broadly funding of police operations. The City also receives $222,000 from a two percent tax on homeowners' insurance in the State of Minnesota, which goes to- ward helping fund the Fire Relief Association funding. Mayor Roe stated the City has been seeing a trend on cable franchise fees that fund communications operations, significantly dropping as opposed to past years when those fees were actually increasing and having some impact, finally, in cut- ting the cord situation. The City budgeted for this year $470,000 which the City may not receive based on whatever is reported in from the cable providers and that is an area where the City has been spending down the reserve fund pretty sig- nificantly to fund a number of operational costs in the communications area and may be an argument to looking at more sustainable funding to help with some of those types of costs. Councilmember Willmus stated with respect to the Resolutions, he would prefer doing two separate ones. Councilmember Laliberte agreed that two separate resolutions would be good be- cause if HF 2031 dies and does not go forward, the City does not want to have another resolution that has it in there. She stated the resolution is a little more ge- neric and supports the changing of the formula. She asked to add the words "and consistent,"noting that not only is the City asking for the LGA formula to provide for additional funding for all cities, but it should be consistent. Mayor Roe agreed. Mr. Trudgeon asked if the wording should be "to provide for additional and con- sistent funding."