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<br />Housing & Redevelopment Authority <br />1 <br />Roseville City Hall Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive <br />2 <br />Minutes – Tuesday, February 18, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />1.Call to Order <br />6 <br />Secretary and Acting Chair Bill Majerus called to order the regular meeting of the Housing & <br />7 <br />Redevelopment Authority (HRA) in and for the City of Roseville at approximately 6:00 p.m. <br />8 <br />9 <br />2. Roll Call <br />10 <br />11 <br /> Present: <br />Secretary Bill Majerus;and Members Susan Elkins and William Masche; with newly- <br />12 <br />appointed member Jason Etten arriving at approximately 6:03 p.m. <br />13 <br />14 <br /> Excused: <br /> Dean Maschka; Kelly Quam; and Vicki Lee <br />15 <br />16 <br />Staff Present: <br /> Acting HRA Executive Director Jeanne Kelsey <br />17 <br />18 <br />8. Presentations <br />19 <br />As there was not yet a quorum available to consider action items, Acting Chair Majerus amended the <br />20 <br />agenda to hear presentations. <br />21 <br />22 <br />a.Ramsey County Board of Commissioners’ Cultivating Economic Prosperity Initiative – <br />23 <br />Representative Ryan O’Conner <br />24 <br />Acting HRA Executive Director introduced Mr. Ryan O’Conner to provide an overview of this <br />25 <br />program and its framework developed by the County at a workshop in September of 2013, and <br />26 <br />its Policy and Planning Division in response to the County’s new goal of “Cultivating <br />27 <br />Economic Prosperity and Addressing Concentrated Areas.” A full copy of the presentation <br />28 <br />materials (Executive PPT) and Supporting Data Charts, Data Sources, and References are <br />29 <br />available online at the Ramsey County Board of Commissioners’ website. <br />30 <br />31 <br />Mr. O’Conner reviewed the four Key Policy Themes used by Ramsey County for economic <br />32 <br />considerations: people, intensity of land use, stronger, more aligned institutional and new <br />33 <br />partnerships, and building on the existing foundation. Mr. O’Conner’s presentation included <br />34 <br />census and demographic information; poverty thresholds and concentrated areas in Ramsey <br />35 <br />County; impacts on economic growth; impacts on broader economic growth and community <br />36 <br />connectivity; and comparisons county-wide with the City of St. Paul in Ramsey County and <br />37 <br />Hennepin County. Mr. O’Conner identified support networks available to take advantages of <br />38 <br />opportunities to grow: employment; housing; investment; and people to maximize community <br />39 <br />resources. <br />40 <br />41 <br />While a timeline of activity related to this initiative has mostly been completed and planned <br />42 <br />internally by Ramsey County at this stage from the fall of 2013 through January of 2014; Mr. <br />43 <br />Ryan advised that the next step includes community conversations such as this one before <br />44 <br />finalizing internal and collaborative levers. <br />45 <br />46 <br />Ms. Kelsey asked what the City of Roseville and the HRA could start to look at to implement <br />47 <br />programs to help address the issues identified. <br />48 <br />49 <br />Mr. O’Conner responded that, since this was the first time the HRA had heard the data and <br />50 <br />would need time to absorb it, a subsequent consideration would be where the City of Roseville <br />51 <br />saw itself fitting in locally to this larger narrative, and where the community building needed a <br />52 <br />framework. Mr. O’Conner expressed the County’s eagerness to engage in those discussions <br />53 <br />with the City of Roseville, especially in supporting development and/or redevelopment <br />54 <br />opportunities. Mr. O’Connor noted that the suburban school district collaborative had been <br />55 <br />very proactive in addressing any apparent racial disparities. Mr. O’Conner suggested a serious <br /> <br />