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HRA Meeting Minutes – Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Page 7 1 Ms. Kelsey reported that she and Mr. Trudgeon had both successfully completed their course 2 work and received their certificates. Based on that educational experience, Ms. Kelsey advised 3 that it was their intent to get information to the HRA at their next meeting in the form of a 4 Request for Qualifications, as provided in the current HRA budget for community outreach for 5 business retention; and to determine opportunities to find people and for the HRA to initiate 6 something in the next year, with no outreach being done to-date with existing businesses in the 7 community. 8 9 Related to that, Ms. Kelsey advised that she was interested in individual Board member 10 availability during the daytime for outreach to those businesses; and perform the initial survey 11 with them that would prove essential to understand the issues before those businesses and for 12 them in the community. Ms. Kelsey advised that the culmination of that data collected would 13 become a report for the HRA to make recommendations on programming implementation the 14 following year. 15 16 b. Multi-family Rental Licensing 17 Ms. Kelsey reported that the latest draft of the multi-family rental licensing program had been 18 presented to the City Council the previous evening for further discussion and their 19 endorsement based on the most recent HRA discussions and recommendations for drafting an 20 ordinance. Ms. Kelsey advised that the City Council was receptive of the program outline, but 21 struggled similarly with the HRA in the 100% cost to property owners for initial inspections. 22 Ms. Kelsey advised that she would meet again next week with the Minnesota Multi-family 23 Housing Association to determine options to minimize that cost for the first year, while still 24 meeting legal requirements to make it fair and equitable for all parties. 25 26 c. Dale Street Fire Station CDI 27 Ms. Kelsey opined that the site looked fantastic; with the site burned and cleared; even though 28 there were some mishaps during the controlled burn by the Fire Department with sparks 29 traveling into the neighborhood, scorching some trees and vehicles. 30 31 Chair Maschka stated that his discussion with the Fire Chief indicated that the burn may have 32 taken on a chimney effect due to the brick construction of the building. 33 34 Ms. Kelsey advised that the last CDI meeting is scheduled for May 28, 2013; with the first 35 thirty minutes available for the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation providing their 36 input, since they had not done this type of concept since the economic downturn; and some 37 negative situations they experienced in 2007. However, Ms. Kelsey advised that their concept 38 for bungalow homes was a concept that be an option, even though in Roseville only four 39 homes per acre were allowed. Ms. Kelsey advised that the actual Dale Street site would need 40 further review for needed density to make it work, with the neighborhood supportive of twelve 41 single-family homes, even though not feasible financially. 42 43 Ms. Kelsey advised that CDI staff would discuss the current condominium and townhome 44 market place as well, another option desired by the neighborhood. 45 46 Ms. Kelsey noted that the process would continue to involve the neighborhood as it framed 47 recommendations to the HRA and City Council, and use their comments as a guide to draft a 48 Request for Proposals (RFP), with neighbors invited to attend HRA meetings to continue their 49 participation as the RFP is drafted. 50 51 Chair Maschka noted that money would be required to get an end product that made financial 52 sense; and expressed concern with the concepts desired to the reality available. Chair Maschka 53 noted that the general public may not understand the full picture; and further noted that there 54 remained a significant amount of distrust, which he hoped could be diminished or eliminated 55 through this open and transparent process. Chair Maschka advised that the concept desired by