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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 9, 2019 Page 7 cial deal per ride than the Shuttlebug and thought it was a good deal for the Rose- ville residents. He was open to further discussion but was not ready to continue with this until everything is figured out. Mr. Olson appreciated information from the Council regarding any localized foundations where money could be found and applied for. Mayor Roe indicated he would like the city to stay connected to this and bring to the Council any potential funding and input at a certain level. Mr. Trudgeon explained staff will stay in contact and see what everyone can come up with before September is over with for potential funding. Councilmember Laliberte thought that made sense and asked staff to keep the Council updated on the progress being made. She also wondered if it would be possible for the city to reach out to Ramsey County either through the city repre- sentative or somebody else so that the request for some county solutions is not just coming through serving the seniors and the volunteers who are doing that work. Mr. Trudgeon noted the county serving the seniors is a broad swath of a lot of particular issues. Staff will continue to be engaged with Commission McGuire. Councilmember Laliberte asked if the city can get information on Washington and Dakota County so the Council has that in order to push in their conversations for transit improvement in the county. Ms. Barsel explained in the process of serving as the Ramsey County chair for the Adult Services Committee, one of the things she kept looking for was a funding mechanism for senior services. She explained that Southwest Ohio had imple- mented a very small property tax increment that was then designated to fund sen- ior services and be used to fund outreach workers for isolated seniors and people who needed transportation. She was not suggesting the city copy that exactly, but when looking at where the tax money goes, it seems to her that if the City of Ro- seville has 'x' amount of money from the budget that is allocated to the parks, for instance, the parks are used by anybody who comes into Roseville and wants to use them. She wondered if it was possible to say, if the city is funding the use of some of their services by people who live outside the community, can the city carve off a very small fraction of the funding source and designate it for address- ing a transportation desert which is something some of the city residents are en- countering and will only increase because as the senior population increases,more of them should not or will not be able to continue to drive. There would then be designated money to put towards someplace like NewTrax.