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City Manager’s Office <br />Memo <br />To: Metro-INET Members <br />cc: Pete Bauer & Jason Swalley, Metro-INET <br />From: Patrick Trudgeon, Roseville City Manager <br />Date: December 1, 2020 <br />Re: Metro-INET Joint Powers Agreement <br />Metro-INET originally started as a collaboration between Roseville and Mounds View to <br />share IT resources in 1999. Since that time, Metro-INET has grown to 35 member <br />organizations receiving full IT services and 9 associate members receiving limited IT services. <br />Not only has the number of Metro-INET members grown, each member agency’s needs have <br />grown exponentially. Some examples in recent years include the deployment of laser fiche, <br />remote computer access, electronic door access, wireless access points, as well as body cam <br />support for law enforcement. <br />Currently, Metro-INET is under organizational control of the Roseville City Manager and <br />Roseville City Council. All Metro-INET employees are actually Roseville employees and fall <br />under Roseville personnel policy, its liability coverage, and compensation structure. The <br />Roseville City Manager makes employment decisions for Metro-INET including the hiring <br />and termination of employees. The City of Roseville includes the $3.5 million Metro-INET <br />budget as part of its city budget. <br />While this arrangement has worked for many years, the following issues is making it harder to <br />keep Metro-INET sustainable into the future: <br />•Roseville City Council concern about the amount of Metro-INET staff and the <br />added liability and carrying costs for that amount of employees <br />•Roseville City Council concern the use of space within City given other city <br />department space needs <br />•The Roseville employee compensation plan lags behind the market for other local <br />governments and especially with LOGIS, a joint powers entity that provides IT <br />services to many local governments in the Twin Cities. LOGIS has recruited <br />several Metro-INET staff members over the past couple of years <br />•As a result of the Roseville compensation plan and organizational structure, it is <br />not possible to create the necessary executive leadership to guide the large $3.5 <br />million Metro-INET enterprise