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City Council Meeting Retreat Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Page 10 6) Housing was prevalent in the list(the lack of move-up housing options) 7) Silo approach within the organizational structure or a lack of departmental collabora- tion In summarizing the list, Mr. Miller and Councilmember Willmus concurred that there ap- peared to be Rapp agreement on those issues from both the Councilmembers and staff, and no particular order to the concerns. Councilmember Willmus noted that Coun- cilmembers called out changing demographics and workforce issues, but staff flagged that item related from a demographic support context. Councilmember Willmus opined that it seemed applicable to the community becoming more aware of broader changes I demographics in the community and the City's response to that change. OPPORTUNITIES 1) Redevelopment sites 2) Engagement/collaboration—people are or want to be engaged (volunteers) and Police Department interested in collaborating in other communities/neighborhoods (e.g. Southeast Roseville), also with other agencies (e.g. Metro Transit, Ramsey County) on shared interests 3) Situational advantages 4) Organizational evolution—efficiencies, technologies, increasing revenue sources At the request of Mr. Rapp, in her summary Councilmember Laliberte noted nothing more representative of Councilmembers or staff THREATS 1) Politics — staff concern expressed was that the City Council seemed to be attack- oriented 2) Development — competition — tension between neighborhoods/developments and business community with few or no independent stores; more chains and a decline of smaller stores 3) Crime—bigger issue on staff side than Councilmember side, but still there, but more strong on staff's list 4) Demographics —much more or a concern on staff side; interesting demographic— see us losing older people in community who care about community and volunteering; losing that valuable resource—some replacements not filing that gap 5) Housing—declining housing stock and not having move-up stock 6) Location— strong positive, but strong threat to lose out to competition (e.g. TCAPP); concern that Roseville didn't become a dead zone between the City of St. Paul and TCAAP 7) Resources—needed to do what we want to do Councilmember McGehee concluded her group's report. 4. Identifying Organizational and Community Challenges Using the information gleaned from the last exercise, Mr. Rapp advised that the next group exercise would be to match strengths with opportunities to find strategic challenges