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RHRA Meeting Minutes – Monday, May 25, 2016 Page 11 1 2 Ms. King suggested ways to help the REDA with that decision-making. 3 4 Member McGehee stated that a “cheat sheet” would prove helpful; and Ms. 5 King advised that development of criteria for evaluating such things and 6 setting up policies would prove helpful. 7 8 President Roe suggested clarifying what was trying to be achieved when 9 considering incentives. 10 11 Member Etten asked Ms. King if she thought the REDA was missing some 12 financing tools or if there were areas not being utilized by the cit. 13 14 Ms. King noted this was a concern voiced by Roseville staff, especially with 15 staff turnover, making sure all tools were known and if available brought to the 16 table. 17 18 Ms. Collins suggested a route to consolidate financial resources, and grouping 19 them to make a “one-stop shop” for making Roseville your business home, 20 providing something more official than currently available, and creating a 21 hierarchy of where to start and how to proceed down the list versus simply a 22 conversational effort. 23 24 Ms. King noted this would be the typical role of a business concierge to help 25 navigate things for business owners (e.g. real estate fixed assets, operating 26 capital, etc.) and advocate for them. Ms. King noted this allowed business 27 owners to keep running their business versus trying to be a developer. Ms. 28 King noted that most businesses may only expand once or twice in their 29 lifetime. 30 31 Since Ramsey County’s attempted legislation for creation of their own EDA 32 had been halted for this session, Member Laliberte anticipated their aspirations 33 may be to present to individual communities to talk about it more. Member 34 Laliberte asked Ms. King to provide information from Scott, Carver and Anoka 35 Counties so the right questions could be asked when Ramsey County 36 inevitably comes before the Roseville City Council. 37 38 Ms. King duly noted that request, noting it fell into the organizational 39 component regarding the various roles for EDAs, EDCs and other such 40 orchestrations. 41 42 President Roe opined that knowing the existing inventory of tools and how 43 future tools may fit in should not exclude another item being added to that list. 44 President Roe expressed interest in getting into that conversation without 45 adding more categories to these strategies, but simply incorporating them into 46 the five categories outlined by Ms. King. However, president Roe noted the