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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,May 09,2011 Page 13 City Manager Malinen clarified that the device scanned moving or stationary ve- hicles. Councilmember McGehee further questioned the amount of staff time required to complete the application for this grant; whether the grant funds covered the full cost of the equipment, its installation and maintenance, or actual costs from start to finish. City Manager Malinen advised that Police Chief Mathwig was not available at to- night's meeting to provide additional detail; however, if the City Council was not prepared to take action tonight, he suggested deferring action until a later date when additional detail was available. Councilmember Pust suggested, if action were deferred, for additional informa- tion related to probable cause in scanning license plates to avoid perceptions of profiling. City Attorney Mark Gaughan advised that, in his experience, the device per- formed something already being done manually by officers, but the equipment au- tomatically read the plate; and in terms of profiling, the device appeared to simply duplicate what was already being done for routine registration stops, by running a registration check on a publically-displayed license plate. Mayor Roe noted a recent presentation he had heard by Police Chief Mathwig and the City of Maplewood Police Chief; and suggested if so desired, that relevant in- formation could be obtained from the City of Maplewood's department, since they've already deployed the equipment. Councilmember Johnson noted that the City of Roseville had chosen to have a single versus dual officer mode in squads; making this a safer option than an of- ficer stopping to use a computer to run a registration. Johnson moved, Pust seconded, authorization to the Police Department to apply for funding through the Minnesota Department of Commerce, Division of Insur- ance Fraud Prevention, to purchase an automatic license plat reader system, at a cost of approximately $25,000, to deploy in its unmarked traffic squad in its on- going efforts to reduce auto theft and thefts from autos in the City of Roseville. Mayor Roe suggested that, if the grant was awarded, the additional information as discussed should come forward with that action request to accept the funds. Roll Call Ayes: Johnson; Willmus; Pust; and Roe. Nays: McGehee.