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Attachment B March 14, 2014 Page 2 The only other alternative for the City, if it wishes to create a fully-empowered Park Board, would be to gain statutory permission from the state legislature. Specifically, the City would need a special law to be enacted that permits the City of Roseville to create a Park Board despite the fact that it is an Optional Plan B City. The process to gain such statutory permission would be as follows: 1. The City ��vill need to be united in its pursuit of statutary permission for a Park Board. I would suggest that such unity could be demonstrated through the Parks Commission adopting a resolution declaring its support for Park Board legislation, followed by a similar resolution adopted by the City Council. Because this is a purely political pursuit, it v��ould be important that these resolutions be adopted in a near-unanimous fashion. If the City's leadership is divided on this issue, then the prospects of gaining legislative support diminish. 2. Armed with the demonstrated support of City leadership, one or more local legislative representatives will need to shoulder the burden of authoring a bill and undertaking the burden of getting the bill passed through appropriate committees within their chamber of the legislature, followed by a majority vote of the entirety of the chamber. Then, the bill will have to pass by majority vote in the other chamber of the legislature and, finally, signed into law by the Go��ernor. Along the way, City leadership and the community as a whole �vill likely need to lobby the legislature to support the bill. The first step in this process, ho�vever, v�-ill be to convince at least one local legislative representative undertake this project. I hope this information is helpful. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. Very truly yours, ERICKSON, BELL, BECKMAN & QUINN, P.A. �L�� Mark F. Gaughan MFG/kmw