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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 3,2014 Page 8 cilitate those connections, or make businesses aware of those resources. Chair Maschka suggested developing a concept to consider and develop such a service. On page 17, Chair Maschka noted Item 1.9 and opined that, even though he found the permit process good now, apparently continual improvement was still needed to optimize that process. In Item 1.10, Chair Maschka suggested the City could connect businesses with resources and available options to help them navigate foreign trade opportunities. On Page 19, Chair Maschka opined that the HRA should facilitate versus creating or convening a networking group, (Items 2.2 and 2.3), opining that getting to the point of creating something may not be feasible, depending on if and how the City's Community Development Director (CDD) was positioned and their skill set and expertise as the City replaced City Manager Trudgeon, formerly holding that position. Chair Maschka noted the previous involvement with businesses and emphasis on economic development by former Community Development Director Welsch and his assistant, Kathy Bennett. Chair Maschka opined that it would be advantageous to have someone as the CDD who brought experience from a mu- nicipal perspective as well as that of the private sector. With the current potential for pending development and redevelopment occurring in the City, Chair Mas- chka opined that the City was in a good place to stimulate more development, es- pecially in the Twin Lakes Redevelopment Area, and to initiate some of these strategies. On a much less dramatic note than this report, Member Masche noted the success of and high compliance rate among businesses as reported at the last HRA meet- ing by Code Enforcement Officer Don Munson in the Neighborhood Enhance- ment Program (NEP) designed specifically for businesses and commercial proper- ties and performed in 2013. Member Masche opined that this appeared to indicate an appetite from the business community for a relationship with the City, with lit- tle dissatisfaction with the City asking them to bring their properties into compli- ance, even though some of those efforts were fairly expensive items and the HRA's first effort to create that relationship. On the housing side, Chair Maschka noted the opportunities available to encour- age workers to live and not only work in Roseville; and recognizing the interest needed in facilitating a connection that housing was an option for them as well. Chair Maschka suggested working with are realtors to get the word out to workers and let them know that Roseville was a great place for young people to start out. City Council Comments Councilmember McGehee spoke in support of capitalizing on the interest of the business community in linking with Roseville and with each other businesses; suggesting that a database should be created to be aware of them, and then out-