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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 15, 2019 Page 6 spot with the CIP and there does not need to be a lot of new dollars added there. He thought those are good things and he would be supportive of some new posi- tions or something around those areas in either or both public safety areas with a caveat that he would like to see more clearly how those additions can be expected to improve public safety. He thought some of what he has seen so far has not helped him as far as he wants to go in order to support that because of the other impacts on the City of Roseville right now. Councilmember Etten appreciated the programs being looked at for improving the EAB program and things like that and thought that is going to be important as far as the quality of the City of Roseville going forward. Councilmember Willmus indicated one of the things brought forward was poten- tially repurposing some existing levy dollars towards capital and maybe there is a little bit broader conversation there, maybe it doesn't all go to capital, maybe that does go towards some increase in services in public safety. That is a conversation he would like to have. He noted perhaps there are some internal looks that can be done within administration and asked if there are areas with potential opportuni- ties for reallocation of dollars. That is certainly something he would like to look into and see if there are some possibilities there. Councilmember Laliberte offered that there were a couple of good conversations on the public safety needs and she thought the City Council will have to delve in- to that as a part of this year's budget conversation and how to make those needs truly improve the response and service of what is being provided but also not nec- essarily get into competing with the county on social services. She thought that mental health is something that is facing all aspects of the communities, city, schools, county, and she thought that is having a big impact on their responses for police and fire. Councilmember Groff was concerned with looking at the numbers and that the General Fund has not been addressed yet. The safety issue is his number one concern and thought that would be something the community would support. Emerald Ash Borer is going to be a problem the City of Roseville will need to ad- dress. He thought that would cost money, but he did not want to increase the tax levy more than is needed because there are people that could be taxed out of their homes and he did not want that to happen. Mayor Roe added in terms of looking at how much the City Council may look at repurposing of debt levy capacity for perhaps some operational costs versus capi- tal costs, he thought it might make sense to take an overall look at all of the allo- cations of levy capacity towards the capital funding, like the City Council did with IT to look if there are some opportunities to transfer, shift from capital to op- erating to make sure that the City of Roseville is not having some of the fund bal- ances grow a lot in the out years. He noted while that looks good now, if there is