Uh yes, Mr. Mayor. We would like to remove for consideration tonight item 5C. Uh the representative of Habitat Humanity cannot make meeting tonight and we'd like that person to be part of the conversation. So we will defer any conversation on that until our January EDA meeting. So you can remove 5C from the agenda.

In your packet for your consideration is a resolution of support for Ramsey County application. um they are right now seeking to do a site assessment. If any environmental um uh from that site assessment, if they are awarded that grant, they'll do a site assessment. If there are any environmental determinations from that site assessment, they will then seek to apply for environmental re um funds through Ramsey County. And in addition to we're looking at once the county has their CDBG grant funds available for application, they're looking to apply for those grant funds to um to do the rehab of the building. So there's a resolution for all three of those items in your packet for your consideration.

No, this just allows in my opinion allows them to get the grants that would help to prepare the building and uh solve any comm uh environmental issues and also make it usable for the purposes that they are asking for. So pretty straightforward.

Thank you, President Rombers, and you for your consideration tonight is the EDA has been awarded two grants. Um the first one was applied for through uh the um livable communities demonstration account through the MET council. We were awarded $375,000 for 50% of the total gap for a minimum of three homes. um in that grant application. And then in addition to we have received a grant funds from the county in the total amount of $620,000 for down payment assistance of up to $95,000 per home at each closing.

I don't remember seeing the Ramsey County grant come before us. I was trying to look did we did the council give approval for application of this?

And if I could add, thank you, Council Member, member Bower, uh, and raising the issue here. Um, it is certainly our uh intent to always bring grant applications ahead of u us applying for um that did not happen. I think there were some assumptions made, but we shouldn't make those assumptions. We should make sure being very transparent and making sure we bring them forward.

I certainly wouldn't want to be in a situation where we would refuse these funds, especially after the work of our staff to do get us in line for them. And I certainly think that would send a bad message to the community about um our furthering home ownership um affordable home ownership since uh multif family is just one part of the home equation in uh providing affordability. Thank you.

Most people think of us as transit and wastewater or buses and flushes. easy way to remember that. Uh, and on the wastewater side, it's amazing.

is super cool. Uh Roseville is our second uh location for microtransit. I think you maybe have a map in your your packet of the Roseville zone. We call it the Roseville zone, but it's actually part of Ardan Hills as well. So cool. It's like Uber and Lift for for transit.

I'll specifically note new requirements uh for natural systems planning and for um climate and greenhouse gas emissions and that requirement was added by the Minnesota legislature. uh we don't expect all the cities 181 actually in our region um to have the expertise to address those topics on their own. So, we've uh been developing very robust tools that can be used online that really anybody can sit down and work through our online tool to look at current inventory for your community for greenhouse gas emissions and gives kind of a menu of different ideas about if you want to try to bring down kind of your trajectory for growth on that down what different techniques you might want to uh consider as the city.

I was wondering if you have any funding grants or programs to prevent chloride from getting in because I think we know once salt or chlorine gets into the water, it's very difficult to get it out. And so it seems like we'd want to spend some time on figuring out how to prevent that to start with or alternatives or because I know one program which is a small program where um residents can get a free bag of chicken grit to put down instead of sand.

As the mayor indicated tonight, you're being asked to hold a public hearing uh to consider approving the renewals for the liquor license. These are applications that we've received. Uh, we will probably have one more set of liquor license that will be coming before you in December as well. Um, these are outlined in your packet as attachment one. They include our offsale and on sale intoxicating liquor licenses, non- intoxicating. I'm not going to go through all the list. It is it is there.

Um license renewal or denying an application for a license renewal is tantamount to a license revocation. And so we look to the liquor licensing statute which requires that the council follow the procedures of the administrative procedures act in Minnesota law when taking that kind of an action. Um without getting too into the weeds it's it's a standard notice and here notice and an opportunity to be heard but but with some more some stricter requirements. There has to be a reasonable opportunity to be heard notice of what you're being charged with and then there are some hearing requirements as well.

Yeah. I just follow up with that seeing this uh great list and so many of them and just thinking about the number of violations that we have. I think uh Rose we've been Roseville uh business community and restaurant community have been doing very well uh in their compliance and in uh their training. So it's nice to see that other discussion on the motion hearing none.

So, real quick, back in 2016, we adopted a private hydrant ordinance basically requiring all hydrants to be inspected. Um that was it's a lot a lot of cities do this because it's part of fire code and if unless you have a way of doing it you there you you don't know if they're actually getting inspected or not. Um so we started doing that.

um, Mayor, you said exactly right. It's a fire safety issue and so that that's something we definitely cannot wait any longer on.

If they're maintained properly, they'll last 7500 years. I Okay. But I mean, it it really comes down to proper maintenance. If you're maintaining them annually and running it, they'll work. It's we when we started the program, um, a lot of those hydrants probably hadn't been used or tested since the day they were put in. And if you don't move operate the stuff, things break.

Uh this is a request perform an abatement at 1719 Chadzsworth for public nuisance violations. Uh on September 22nd, staff was uh notified that there were violations in this entire neighborhood that staff should look at. We did go through the neighborhood. We found this property with an inoperable vehicle and uh and a freezer, a chest freezer in the driveway.

I think that's my concern here is that that you know this you know sometimes people have challenges with resources and things like that and and I I just want to pause during the the process of our enforcement to make sure that we're not sort of you know making situations worse for people. I know we for instance in our our police department we have the program the lights on program where people can receive you know um essentially vouchers or coupons for getting um you know um what am I trying to say like signal lights repaired or those types of things on their vehicles.

Yeah, this one. Um, if once we approve this, when would you actually pick up the vehicle or have it done? Would be like tomorrow or something potentially. I mean, it it's not a um a lengthy process once we get approval from council to do that. we could we we would work as you approve it. So I I guess what I would do I would move to approve this but move the date out because since it's Thanksgiving week it might be a little difficult to um you know just to the spirit of the holiday I guess give them a little extra time. So maybe uh you know something two weeks or something.

Um the proposal is to uh to plat the the property there at 1900 to 1910 County Road D uh where Presbyterian Homes has their home care facility. Um and the the result of the plat would be dedicating some rightway along County Road D. uh making a relatively small lot uh for the existing facility there and reserving the rest in what's known as an outlot, which essentially just holds it as an undevelopable parcel until such time in the future as it is replatted or designated as a developable lot instead of an outlot.

Um our request to do this minor subdivision um is purely a flexibility kind of move. Uh we typically would have a skilled nursing facility on its own parcel. This was a combined parcel because we were going to add on to it. Um now that I don't know what will become of the property, it makes more sense for our portfolio to align and just have it on its own. So that's that's the reason behind the request.

Um, but it it's been uh, you know, it has been an eyesore. Um, it's been fenced. It's been there because everything was stalled. Um I celebrated when the fence came down and now it's a nice looking uh clean area which I really appreciate. Finally, um a couple of questions I have. Number one, uh who owns the the plat? Is it still Presbyterian Homes? That's my first question. Do I ask all my questions and then go ahead? Okay. Y um the second question I think I answered when this came up. agenda like information for my neighbors to bring back um is online. Is that correct? Yes. And it remains there after this meeting. Sounds good. Um I got the answer about what the purpose of replatting is I think from um people that have spoken already. What does it mean for who mows the property? Like is it going to be maintained? Because we have experienced we have experienced all sorts of pests through this process. We've I mean we've had to look at piles of trash for years.

Sure. Um so now that it's all been seated and like they said the fencing is down and uh we we can do a better job of maintaining that. Uh part of it is in u grasses that would be mowed and maintained and a lot of it is in prairie seed that we overseed with additional wildflower. um that can be that can be mo that maintenance requirements for it or um what the landscaper has said is in the spring when it grows to 6 in you mow it because that will kill the weeds that grow faster than the wild flowers and if you mow it at 6 in it kills the weeds and then the wild flowers can start to come up.

As you mentioned, we've already talked about this a couple times. This is, I believe, the third time. We last spoke about this at our last meeting. Uh, and just as a way of some brief, uh, background, as you know, under state law, cities are allowed to enter into franchise agreements with utility companies. In our case, that would be Excel. We previously did have a franchise ordinance in place for 20 years, which expired in 2018.

As part of our ordinance, uh the city can uh institute franchise fees as I just talked about for the use of the rightaway uh which are charged to customers. Now the fees uh are charged to all customers and that includes tax exempt properties from our estimation is about 84 properties that would pay these franchise fees that that don't pay taxes and generate about $175,000 to mostly larger users, non-residential users.

Uh, as we look at double-digit levy increases, as you are well aware, franchise fees uh, represent a practical and commonly used option for us to consider. as we look at the tax levy increase.