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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 14, 2015 Page 16 Council made tonight changed nothing about that current relationship and pro- j ects. Further discussion included statutory requirements related to levy increases spe- cific to EDA's and PA's being subject to reverse referendums. Since both an EDA and PA can have full HRA powers, they could levy an HRA levy on their own or they could do EDA or PA levies, but those would come under any municipality levy limits. Mayor Roe sought clarification if an HRA levy was applied under an EDA, it could only be used for purposes under the HRA function statutory authority and would be unable to take advantage of an HRA levy to fund EDA functions. Mr. Bilotta agreed with that summary, noting that if sorting out all three statutes, 90% of the provisions would overlap, with redevelopment roles for the City of Roseville across all three statutes, given the City's build out. At the request of Mayor Roe, Mr. Bilotta advised that the HRA levy does not count against City levy limits if applicable. With both EDAs and PAs if there is a EDA/PA levy and the City has levy limits, the EDA/PA levy would count towards the City's statutory cap. For Roseville, there are no levy limits in place for the City at this time. Mayor Roe noted a bizarre situation under PA with a mandatory PA levy along with a discretionary levy. Mr. Bilotta noted this was a key factor for a PA, with the difference that the HRA comes forward to the City Council with a levy seeking their blessing while the PA states their levy amount with no option for the City Council to approve it or not and in Roseville's case a moot point since it would essentially be requesting it from itself. At the request of Councilmember Etten, Mr. Bilotta confinned that the greatest flexibility and influence in the City was in use of its PA. Mr. Bilotta offered fur- ther infonnation on the unique powers of PA's as addressed in attachment B to the RCA with the City retaining its HRA powers by reference and ability to picic up EDA powers if so desired; while the PA can do all three. Mr. Bilotta suggest- ed the City may wish to separate EDA powers to avoid any negation of its PA au- thority. Mayor Roe referenced economic development statutes for municipal development for industrial projects and their qualifications seeming to be very broad and all- encompassing beyond just industrial.