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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 28, 2011 Page 17 Councilmember Willmus recognized that Councilmember Pust had raised valid concerns; however, he noted that this approach had come from a community- driven or generated idea, with discussion starting with the OVAL Task Force as one source of revenue encouraged by a group of Roseville citizens. Councilmember Pust advised that she had followed those discussions; however, it raised yet another issue: whether the sales tax should be applied to capital versus general operating expenses. Councilmember Pust opined that other things raised in the RCA had yet to be addressed by the City Council; and with the other issues currently before the legislative body, she didn't think an additional bill with this request would proceed. Councilmember McGehee concurred with Councilmember Pust; and while agree- ing in theory with the proposed list of projects for funding, opined that additional business and residential input was needed to determine the positive and negative impacts to them. City Manager Malinen noted those potential projects listed (Attachment. C) were shown as examples, and recognized that the City Council may have not engaged in discussion on each item listed; however, he noted that many of them were per- petuating trust fund items identified from the Parks and Recreation Master Plan process, and were representative of the magnitude of outstanding specifics and priorities and could serve to provide direction, while allowing some flexibility. Mr. Malinen suggested that the legislative delegation may be able to provide greater insight into how and which items would be best received and how to pro- ceed once they received the resolution from the City. Councilmember Johnson recognized the concerns expressed by Councilmember Pust; however, he opined that having specifics in place at this time was not crucial to the process at this time and the request currently before the City Council. Councilmember Johnson noted that the most intriguing issue was the regional wear and tear on the City's infrastructure by those using Roseville programs and services and the benefit to Roseville citizens in those people sharing in the upkeep of that infrastructure rather than it falling to City taxpayers exclusively. Coun- cilmember Johnson further opined that he didn't see any resolution to that prob- lem by attempting to get the levy cap lifted or by pursuing additional bonding re- ferenda. Councilmember Johnson expressed his interest in seeing the results of the two (2) pending community surveys to determine the interest of constituents in pursuing the various issues. Councilmember Johnson suggested that the intent of the proposed local option sales tax referendum would be to allow voters to weigh in and be part of the decision-making process. Councilmember Pust noted that there were many people coming to and spending money in Roseville; and opined that it would be great if Roseville citizens could collect revenue from other than Roseville citizens to address those additional in-