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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 26, 2009 Page 16 Mr. Miller concurred, and advised that the 2010 inflationary items reflected an at- tempt to return to 2008 levels based on added costs the City had incurred in achieving those flat budgets during 2008 and 2009. Mr. Wilmus quoted statistics from the Bureau of Labor related to actual inflation numbers; and requested information on how the City proposed to project that number in 2010. Mr. Wilmus asked how the City Council was looking at tax-payer funded, as well as fee-paid programs, using as an example the Leaf Pickup Program, with only 10% of the 9,000 households in Roseville utilizing the program, but included in the tax-supported program, and where the equity was in such a practice, and ques- tioned how much was being expended by the City on the facility, land, equipment and personnel to turn the leaf piles, asking that the City look at some of those variables and impacts as well. Mr. Miller, at the request of Councilmember Pust, addressed the inflation issue, advising that some program costs did not have inflationary figures attached (i.e., COLA), but that there were other things that would be subject to inflationary pressures (i.e., cost of asphalt for street maintenance; increased fuel costs). Mr. Miller advised that, while the overall inflation is very small, that was not the case for many services provided by the City. Mr. Miller further noted that the City held several multi-year contracts (i.e., exter- nal audit contract; custodial services) that guaranteed inflationary increases of a certain percentage during the term of the contract, following negotiation between those providers and the City. Mr. Miller advised that assumptions were that Qwest and Xcel would not hold their services at zero percent (0%) and that the City needed to provide for such contingencies. Further discussion included staff estimates of inflationary increases based on normal operations and funding levels to provide consistency in getting back to service levels of 2007 and 2009 before falling into an unsustainable pattern; and calculations applied by staff in reflecting those assumptions and projections for the proposed 2010 budget; having been paid for at the expense of other programs, services, and reserve levels and to reduce those compounding effects. Recess Mayor Klausing recessed the meeting at approximately 8:29 p.m. and reconvened at approxi- mately 8:39 p.m. 11. Public Hearings b. Conduct Public Hearing and Consider an Off-Sale 3.2% Liquor License for NAD, Inc., d/b/a Adam's Food & Fuel located at 2815 Rice Street