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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 23, 2009 Page 19 Councilmember Johnson noted that one item not addressed by the City Council as a governing body was the aging demographics of the current population, with 30% of the City being sold in the next ten (10) years, anticipating that a large per- centage of its senior population moving. Councilmember Johnson, from a budg- eting consideration, questioned how to address filling those houses and what they were going to be filled with. Councilmember Johnson noted what he had ob- served when first moving to Roseville, its amenities: a variety of good schools, parks, churches, and well-kept streets. Councilmember Johnson noted that he took for granted that wherever he lived, he would continue to be well protected and looked after; and opined that the City currently had the best Fire and Police Departments around, and offered them his appreciation based on his observations. Councilmember Johnson opined that consideration needed to be given to how the City of Roseville would be marketed to future generations, with the need to pre- serve its many amenities and housing stock, through ongoing code enforcement, park improvements, street maintenance and replacement, and maintaining its su- perb public safety departments. Councilmember Johnson expressed his strongly-held personal concern that the City's Parks and Recreation Department had taken substantial hits over the last 5- 7years, while other departments had been increased exponentially. Councilmem- ber Johnson opined that he was asking for all the outdoor skating rinks to be re- stored and an additional $20,000 allocated from somewhere else to come back into parks. Councilmember Johnson opined that if he observed a rink not being used, it spoke volumes to new residents about their community; and that this was not a wise area from which to withhold funding at this time. Councilmember Johnson recognized that dollar amounts did reflect on jobs; and noted additional stresses and duress to the Parks Department if staffing was cut further, when the Department was already experiencing its overt share of duress. Councilmember Roe clarified, with Councilmember Johnson responding affirma- tively, that this was in addition to restoring the outdoor skating rinks. Mayor Klausing suggested that street snow plowing could be reduced in fre- quency to provide funds to restore outdoor ice rinks. Councilmember Pust noted that Mayor Klausing's suggestion to plow less fre- quently to reduce the budget for restoration of outdoor ice rinks was an example of a refinement that may not actually save money, when the same number of staff was still required to plow. Mayor Klausing suggested that it could be addressed through eliminating over- time. Mayor Klausing opined that he was looking at things from a different per- spective, but arriving at the same conclusion in a different way.