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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 24, 2008 Page 16 made for retaining incumbent prosecuting attorney rather than changing firms, and how that would best benefit the City; who would the City Manager choose as a second choice for prosecuting attorney and rationale for that choice; all in re- spect to the City's current policy and rationale for not providing others with an opportunity to work with the City of Roseville. City Manager Malinen was given the same request for civil legal counsel, includ- ing providing a better understanding of how ratings worked and their ranges for each category. Councilmember Ihlan opined that the City Council should have much more input in the City Attorney selection, given the extensive direct work with the City Council. Public Comment John Kysylyczyn, 3083 N Victoria Street Mr. Kysylyczyn, provided his historical perspective for instituting such a policy in 1998/99 and suggested that the City Council review former Councilmember Dean Maschka's rationale for the policy. Mr. Kysylyczyn opined that misde- meanors occurred everywhere, and smaller firms could serve the City equally as well as incumbents; and suggested that large cases in law enforcement were han- dled by the County Attorney, not the City's prosecuting attorney. Mr. Kysylyczyn expressed concern with the make-up of the panel used for rank- ing the prosecuting attorney, in relation to the make-up of the panel used for rank- ing the civil attorney; alleging that the militaristic organizational structure of the Police Department with two (2) of the panelists being direct reports to their su- pervising officer, the Police Chief, was less independent than the panel used for evaluating the civil attorney. Mr. Kysylyczyn expressed further concern regarding the lack of follow-up on low bidders and similar language of previous evaluations of legal firms. Police Chief Carol Sletner Chief Sletner clarified that, during the scoring process for prosecuting attorney, each panelist (consisting of her, Captain Mathwig and Lt. Lorne Rosand) had scored and ranked firms secretly and individually, with no exchange of scores at any time, as alleged in previous comments of Mr. Kysylyczyn. A bench handout had been provided by the City's civil legal counsel, supplement- ing their Civil Legal Services proposal, and in light of current economic condi- tions and the City Council's effort to minimize the levy increase for the 2009 City budget, offering to freeze the 2009 retainer at 2008 levels. 14. Business Items -Presentations, Discussions