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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 22,2015 Page 31 An e-mail dated June 22, 2015 from Janice Johnson, 2433 Cohansey Street, providing written comment was included as a bench handout, attached hereto and made a part hereof Pam Grogan,Next Door Neighbor,385 West Brooks Avenue Ms. Grogan advised that the photos provided by staff had been taken from their property. As a twenty-eight year resident at this address, Ms. Grogan addressed the hardship and negative impacts to them and their neighbors in seeing this on a daily basis. As an example, Mr. Grogan noted her daughter's graduation last year could not be celebrated with a party at their home due to this view; and advised that when they were working in their yard, people biking or walking past often stopped to ask what was going on at the adjacent property. Ms. Grogan stated the negative impacts were beyond just the adjacent neighbors but the city overall. Dee Kennedy Ms. Kennedy referenced her attendance before the City Council several meetings ago; and thanked them for working on resolving this issue. As a bench handout, Ms. Kennedy provided a document from their realtor, in attempting to sell the ad- jacent property belonging to her ailing sister, and negative impacts to any poten- tial sale of that home, and resulting in reducing the asking price by $30,000. Ms. Kennedy advised that given her sister's critical health issues, she was serving as her representative in attempting to sell the property. Ms. Kennedy opined it was obvious no one was living at this subject property; and when she had encountered the property owner in the yard earlier this year and asked him to clean it up—after he had been cited by the City— she reported he had been pleasant but nothing had resulted toward clean-up. Connie Willmes,396 Brooks Avenue W Referencing the photos displayed by staff, Ms. Willmes clarified that what ap- peared to be an overhang on the vacant home was literally a 10' x 10' space filled with stuff. Ms. Willmes reviewed the previous involvement among neighbors and kids growing up swimming in the pool and playing in the yard. While residing across the street from this property, Ms. Willmes stated she was here to support the staff-requested action to address this property and improve the livability of their neighborhood, their quality of life and property values. Ms.. Willmes veri- fied that the home was vacant, and the yard was only mowed when reaching a height of 8"to 10"long. Ms. Willmes noted there were many neighbors attending tonight, and also others asking, most as long-term residents of Roseville, that this situation be resolved. Ms. Willmes also expressed health and safety concerns about the pool, weak fence surrounding it, and resulting pooled water on the cover attracting mosqui- toes and rodents; and asked that the City coordinate as needed with the Public Health Department to remove the public hazard issue created by this pool.