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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 9, 2015 Page 24 Regarding priorities listed by Chair Maschka, Mayor Roe agreed with the south- east Roseville and Twin Lakes redevelopment as needing immediate prioritiza- tion, but suggested Har Mar Mall and Rosedale were farther out, recognizing that the recent rezoning of Har Mar Mall was intended as part of a future vision. Mayor Roe note that he and Councilmember Laliberte had preliminarily discussed the value in marketing Roseville to the development community to take advantage of infill development opportunities, and make connections and build relationships now to take advantage of future options. Mayor Roe noted that there may be a need to outsource this specialized work versus expecting that expertise from in- house staff. Mayor Roe concurred with Councilmember Etten's comments regarding the City Council's willingness to step up, but clarified that even with bonding unless via a TIF revenue bond as used in Twin Lakes, there was no free money and money was either coming from the project generating an increment or from taxpayers. While there was always reluctance to do something that would impact taxpayers, Mayor Roe noted that realistically there would need to be some impact to taxpay- ers, and everyone needed to be on board when decisions were made even though individuals had their personal points of view. Chair Maschka addressed the advantages of revenue bonds that could lock in cur- rent interest rates now that may not come along again for a long time; thus the HRA's interest in having those discussion with bond counsel. Councilmember McGehee opined that the HRA didn't have too much on their plate; to which Chair Maschka concurred. In terms of a partnership between the HRA and City Council, Councilmember McGehee opined that the City Council didn't have enough things of significant value on its plate. Councilmember McGehee opined that the City Council needed to step up to the plate when something came along that would raise versus lower- ing the bar of overall benefit to the City of Roseville in general. However, Coun- cilmember McGehee opined that, in the past, the City had done a number of things that had not raised the bar or been helpful to long-term development, and therefore were not the right thing to do. As part of the City Council retreat discussion, Councilmember McGehee stated that she wanted to address the reason Roseville had a bad reputation in the devel- opment community due to not having a viable process in place and a vision that invited all discussion with everyone pulling in the same direction. Councilmem- ber McGehee expressed her enthusiasm for the Dale Street Project process, which she found to be amazing and credited the HRA for the time and effort spent pur- suing that outcome, and result that no one in the community told the City Council not to spend TIF money on the project. Councilmember McGehee noted that, even with unexpected delays with the project, residents continued to support the