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HRA Meeting Minutes Tuesday, April 16, 2013 Page 10 1 2 Chair Maschka opined that it may be a discussion worth having. 3 4 Member Willmus concurred; opining that the City had properties in higher standing, which 5 were a benefit to the overall community in reducing blight, and such a discussion would be 6 prudent. 7 8 Member Quam opined that fees could be reduced by not inspecting at 100% of the units 9 initially. 10 11 Mr. Trudgeon questioned how to address equal housing issues if that were attempted, and how 12 to protect the City from discrimination litigation. Mr. Trudgeon opined that the only other way 13 from his perspective was to inspect 25% of every building. However, Mr. Trudgeon 14 questioned if good results would be obtained; and opined that in order to understand the 15 problems of the 10% properties, staff was intending to correct problems through initial 16 inspection of 100% of the units. 17 18 Ms. Kelsey anticipated the cost would be approximately $100,000; and offered to share the 19 numbers in more detail with the HRA, City Council and public as part of ongoing discussions. 20 21 Chair Maschka asked that those detailed numbers be brought forward in the near future to the 22 HRA. 23 24 At the request of Member Elkins, Ms. Kelsey addressed the complaints fielded by staff from 25 Roseville tenants in multi-family rental units. Ms. Kelsey advised that many of the problems 26 were identified by social works, school districts and based on building condition rather than 27 28 challenges in enforcing issues, since a third-party complaint could not be recognized or a unit 29 inspected, thus the rationale in the proposed ordinance. 30 31 At the request of Member Elkins, Ms. Kelsey advised hat staff does not currently maintain a 32 database on file of problem properties or conditions of individual units. Ms. Kelsey further 33 34 only provided am address for police calls, and their information had to be filtered out and 35 seldom shared due to privacy issues. Ms. Kelsey advised that staff in both departments were 36 currently trying to filter the system to cross-correlate between departments for repeat nuisance, 37 while maintaining privacy; with constraints of the Community 38 nuisance-based code violations based on exterior inspections, and no way to get into properties 39 without a complaint being filed. Ms. Kelsey noted that this was further complicated by the 40 41 more challenges for the City, the Police Department, and School District. 42 43 Motion: Member Masche moved, seconded by Member Lee to direct staff to initiate 44 drafting a draft ordinance to bring back to the HRA. 45 46 Ayes: 7 47 Nays: 0 48 Motion carried. 49 50 Member Majerus asked that staff keep reminding the HRA of other suburbs going down the 51 same path to keep comparisons and contrasts in mind. 52 53 Member Masche expressed his support of the tier system. 54 55 Chair Maschka concurred, suggesting that Roseville take that good idea and make it better.