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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, April 18, 2016 Page 28 Councilmember Laliberte agreed that Ramsey County had been a great partner with the City of Roseville; and while this draft resolution focused on the opt out piece, she had other concerns about the transparency and public awareness issues that she also wanted added to addressed the existing committee process going away from the very beginning. Mayor Roe suggested language to address that existing statutory requirement, such as: "WHEREAS, the City of Roseville is not clear why existing legislation with requirements for public input for creation of an EDA and opt out options do not suffice..." Councilmember Willmus asked that language in the resolution title "...as it is currently writ- ten..." be struck (lines 11 — 12). Mayor Roe agreed, since it remained an unknown as to when the legislation may be written and/or read. Councilmember Etten noted similar language on page 2, line 43. City Attorney Gaughan noted language on page 2 of the draft resolution (lines 46-47) addressing the proposed role of the Ramsey County EDA and provisions or limitations of the opt -out lan- guage in proposed legislation. Councilmember Willmus, with agreement of his colleagues, suggested striking that entire para- graph. Regarding Councilmember Laliberte's concerns as to whether or not a dual tax is implied or stat- ed, Councilmember Etten referenced lines 26 — 27, but suggested additional language such as: "WHEREAS, the proposed legislation was created without input from affected municipalities and their citizens..." Mayor Roe suggested language such as: "WHEREAS it is not clear to the City of Roseville why the rigorous community engagement requirements of existing statutes for creating a county EDA would not be followed with this new legislation...." Councilmember Willmus also noted "... as it is currently written..." was also in line 37 (page 1) and needed deleting. Councilmember Laliberte expressed her continuing concern with the potential for Ramsey Coun- ty to have a separate EDA and HRA and dual levying potentials for each. Language was sug- gested as follows: "WHEREAS, it is not clear to the City of Roseville why the rigorous commu- nity engagement processes are not deemed adequate or being followed under existing stature re- quirements for establishment of a County EDA are not adequate in this instance Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 8:54 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 9:04 p.m.