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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 1, 2013 Page 6 Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 6:28 p.m. and reconvened at approximately 6:40 p.m. b. Joint Meeting with Housing & Redevelopment Authority (HRA) Mayor Roe welcomed members of the Roseville HRA to tonight's quarterly joint meeting with the City Council. Members present included HRA Chair Dean Maschka; and HRA Members Kelly Quam; Susan Elkins; Vicki Lee; Bill Masche. Acting HRA Executive Director Jeanne Kelsey was also present in the audience. Dale Street Fire Station Chair Maschka introduced Gretchen Nicolls, Corridor Development Initiative (CDI) representative who had been working with the HRA and staff on the Dale Street redevelopment project and invited her to review the process and recom- mendations from those community meetings. Chair Maschka opined that he had found the entire process interesting and a very good experience. Ms. Nicolls provided a brief overview of the operations of the CDI over the last ten (10) years with the purpose of providing a framework for housing and mixed use development for Twin Cities' neighborhoods, while understanding the market and to assess community values to merge those two through a proactive planning process and mobilize them between the planning and implementation stages. Ms. Nicolls noted that the advisory group designing this process included HRA Member Bill Majerus; Dan Maser; HRA Chair Dean Maschka; Fred O'Neil; Ken Hartman; City staff members Pat Trudgeon, Jeanne Kelsey and City Coun- cilmembers Tammy McGehee and Jason Etten. Other CDI representatives in- volved included Facilitator Barbara Raye; Katie Berger, overseeing the gathering block exercise; Alan Arthur for the development workshop and assisting in as- sessment of financial feasibility of options; guest presenter Todd Rhoades; Ms. Nicolls and Roseville staff. Ms. Nicolls reviewed the various community outreach and communication tools used to engage citizens for the four (4) workshops, each focusing on a different aspect: 1) Information Gathering; 2) Block Exercise; 3) Developer Panel; and 4) Framing the Recommendations. Ms. Nicolls noted that, throughout the process, there was real curiosity expressed by those attending on how the process might in- form the community's voice to achieve an excited versus frustrated redevelop- ment project. Chair Maschka noted that the adjacent area to the Dale Street project had some other significant areas of concern, including the safety of the intersection and street alignment.