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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,October 08, 2012 Page 13 Mayor Roe expressed his appreciation for more details provided in the Action Plan since its last presentation. Multi-family Rental Housing Licensing - Discussion for Recommended Approach Chair Maschka summarized this proposed licensing program as detailed in At- tachment C; seeking input—from the City Council prior to the HRA scheduling a public hearing and seeking comment from the community and property owners. Chair Maschka sought additions, whether the HRA was headed in the right di- rection; and spoke in support of the proposed incentives to encourage higher standards. Chair Maschka noted that the actual costs remained an unknown at this time, admitting that this is a concern to him personally; however, he noted the need to provide some type of category for discussion purposes. Chair Mas- chka advised that this was only one (1) option, and other communities had tried such an option. Chair Maschka advised that the Trust option held some appeal to him as well, and may be something the City would have to deal with. Mayor Roe opined that the Trust option could serve as an additional tool in ad- dition to the licensing program. At the request of Councilmember Pust, Mr. Trudgeon addressed the rationale in various categories and the "carrots" to encourage a higher standard through at- tendance a property owner meetings, eligibility and criteria per category. Mr. Trudgeon advised that this "first attempt" in developing the property licensing requirements and categories had been drafted as a discussion point for tonight's meeting, and by no means should be viewed as a complete document, and would still require a lot of input. Mr. Trudgeon noted that the biggest issue was seeking whether the HRA was headed in the right direction. Mr. Trudgeon clarified that the majority of the existing multi-family buildings would be cate- gorized as "Type A," there would be some unfortunately that may be classified as "Type D." Mr. Trudgeon advised that the intent of the Licensing Program was to have a tool for enforcement available for the City to encourage those "Type D" property owners by incentivizing them — whether through financial means or others —to better their properties. Mr. Trudgeon noted that it was not the intent that the program be a financial burden for the majority "Type A" properties; but the goal was to provide incentives for their improvement; with many details yet to be worked out. Ms. Kelsey used an 11-unit building as an example of potential licensing costs for the program, (e.g. $10 per unit and $100 per property) and staff inspection costs for those property owners as associated with the private market ($30 per unit and $100 per building) for common area and overall operating inspections. Ms. Kelsey noted, under those projected costs, a property would be subject to $430 every three (3) years, for "Type A" properties, and a license fee every three (3) years. Ms. Kelsey advised that it was anticipated that the property