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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 18, 2024 Page 5 Ms. Pietrick indicated staff is actually examining that directly because the City received notice of a retirement in a lead position so staff will shuffle upwards.When the 2024 budget was built, staff did not know that Maplewood was going to close their license center and the City has seen quite an increase in customers. She explained she did run a brief analysis and if the City were to take one of the three- fourths employees and make them full time, the license center would just about break evenas to the cost versus the revenues and it was a very conservative analysis. She truly believed that moving one of the employees to full time will break even, allow the license center to serve more customers, and also allow them to expand the hours of the knowledge-based testing. She has put in a request to the City Manager to increase that now and it will be examined again during the budget process. Councilmember Etten thought it made sense to make that increase even if the City is not going to make a lot of money as it ensures the City is getting quality services to folks coming in. He noted this is a very public part of the work in Roseville and he hears about the Roseville license center all of the time, so the City needs to make sure it remains positive. He indicated he was part of passing of the funds policy, but it bothers him a little bit that the only major depth tiiient that is having money pulled out is the Parks and Recreation Department. The Police Department or Fire Department are not called out separately or any of the other departments are called out separately. So, the Council never sees if those departments are breaking over. He noted these other departments are all mushed together in the General Fund, so the Council gets a skewed perspective and he felt like one major department is taking all of the departmental level withholdings right now. He noted it frustrates him about that, he felt the policy leaves a lot of departments without scrutiny, and clearly the Parks and Recreation Fund is providing a large amount of money overtime. He appreciated staff has noted this and tracks which departments are providing what. But, it is quite clear that there is only one real department that is doing this right now. Ms. Pietrick noted in some cities, the Parks and Recreation Department is a part of the General Fund. Mayor Roe indicated the City of Roseville certainly could do that. Ms. Pietrick indicated in the City this is two funds. There is the Recreation Fund and the Parks Maintenance Fund. Parks Maintenance is one hundred percent tax supported and as Mr. Johnson noted, the fee-based programs in recreation, the costs, and revenues, try to match. But, there are number of programs that are not fee supported. She indicated this is probably unfair. She explained in her previous job, the excess funds were put into the Capital Improvement Fund. She noted staff already took two hundred thousand dollars out of this Cash Carry-Forward fund and put it into the Parks and Recreation Vehicle and Equipment Fund and that fund