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City Manager's 2005 Budget Memo Page 9 of 27 for those businesses to give back to the community that has given them much in return. And such private sector funding actually helps keep such foundations alive; public sector financing tends to remove incentives and thereby diminishes vitality. Finally, when we are cutting hundreds of thousands from our budget — including, as you will see below in my recommendations, cutting five city employee positions — it is extremely difficult to explain to employees and our residents how we continue to find and prioritize tax money for the Ambassador program but not for city employees and city services that provide a greater benefit to a larger segment of the community on a day-to-day basis. Council Action Recommendation #4: Council motion eliminating [continuing] the City's appropriation for the Roseville Ambassa- dor Foundation. B. Administration. The major change I want to emphasize in Administration does not deal directly with the Administration budget per se but instead af- fects department budgets citywide and our ability to continue to compete successfully for the best and the brightest city employees. think we need to address the City's pay scale. I recommend a two-fold approach. One, I recommend the Council adopt a city pay scale that is slightly less than the Stanton V average pay scale for cities our size. Two, to continue to attract and retain high performing employees, I recommend a performance pay dimen- sion to our pay scale that gives a limited number of city employees an opportunity to earn up to 15% above the Stanton V average. Per- formance pay would be based on a sustained pattern of superior per- formance as measured by outcomes.