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Regular City Council Meeting AND Board of Adjustments and Appeals Monday,July 23, 2012 Page 3 Gary Grefenberg,91 Mid Oaks Lane Mr. Grefenberg emphatically echoed the comments of Ms. White; and asked for a legal opinion on why the request needed to be complied with, and additional information on whom this person was making the request. Mr. Grefenberg also questioned if other municipalities were receiving similar requests, and how they were responding. Mr. Grefenberg expressed concern that this notice to citizens of the action taken by staff in distributing the information had been provided at 3:15 on a Friday af- ternoon; and opined that it was similar to Washington, D.C. distributing unsa- vory information immediately prior to a weekend. Mr. Grefenberg opined that it would have been better to alert citizens to who was requesting the infor- mation; and expressed concern that this would make it even more difficult to get people involved in Roseville, without this breach of trust. Mr. Grefenberg stat- ed that when he had signed up for the e-mail list with the City, he had been as- sured that this e-mail information would not be shared with anyone outside the City; and questioned why that promise was broken for residents of Roseville. Mr. Grefenberg also suggested that a policy be developed, addressing the value of e-mail listings identifying Roseville citizens interested in civic affairs. Mr. Grefenberg opined that this raised many issues; and asked for responses to his questions: who sent it; whether this practice will extend to any time an e-mail is sent to individual City Councilmembers or directed confidentially to staff; and does this affect all disbursements lists on the City's database. Mr. Grefenberg reiterated his concern with how and when this occurred. 4. Council Communications, Reports, Announcements and Housing and Redevelop- ment Authority (HRA) Report 5. Recognitions,Donations, Communications 6. Approve Minutes Comments and corrections to draft minutes had been submitted by the City Council prior to tonight's meeting and those revisions were incorporated into the draft pre- sented in the Council packet a. Approve Minutes of July 16, 2012 Meeting Mayor Roe noted suggested revisions to the meeting minutes provided by SWARN that had just been received tonight as a bench handout, with the City Council not having had time to review their suggestions for incorporation.