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Summary: <br />Roseville has been operating without a budget, making decisions without a long term <br />planning document or any way to assess the long term impact on revenues and <br />expenditures. Given the economy and the changing landscape of retail in the <br />metropolitan area, the City Council should demand and receive a full and detailed budget, <br />provide that budget to the public, hold public hearings on the proposed budget, modify <br />said budget, and approve said budget and accompanying long term planning document <br />before making any decision with long term impacts on the "community," or the fmances <br />of Roseville. <br />These documents do not, and I repeat, do not require expenditures on outside consultants. <br />If our city staff is incapable of generating these documents without outside assistance by <br />consultants, they should be replaced. If help is needed, Roseville should look to the <br />residents, whose interest, experience, and expertise often far exceeds that of city staff. <br />These residents would be asked to volunteer to assist city staff in these efforts. <br />Volunteers would be free to participate, not selected by the City Council. <br />We need to return to some semblance of an open and participatory government that <br />operates with long range plans and within a properly vetted and approved budget. <br />As neither a vetted and approved budget nor a long range planning document is available <br />at this time, decisions regarding land purchases and fire trucks should be postponed until <br />such time, as such documents become available and are approved. <br />4 <br />