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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 20, 2017 Page 11 involve a percentage of units or rooms being inspected, including common areas and involve life safety issues, but not those involved with from a licensing per- spective (e.g. exterior condition, parking lots, etc.). However, Chief O'Neill ad- vised, if that were to occur, staff would be coming back to the City Council with a program for annual versus every three year inspections. Based on the condition of some of the city's current lodging facilities, Chief O'Neill advised that there was a need for annual inspections allowing more opportunities to mitigate some things that were currently happing, and involving a structured fee program that would be no more expensive than that used today, but just providing the ability to interact with those properties more frequently. Councilmember Laliberte asked if exterior issues and other areas not affected by this program would be continued under agreement with the State of MN. Chief O'Neill advised that the municipality's immediate takeover was concerned only with life safety and fire aspects; while staff would hope to then design a pro- gram to come back with the licensure portion of the entire piece. Mayor Roe noted that the complaints or information he'd seen related to Roseville hotels had come through the Ramsey County Health Department and were related to temperature controls for food and/or pools; and questioned if that would come under this municipal inspection proposal. Chief O'Neill clarified that those issues would fall under Ramsey County Health. Councilmember McGehee noted that had been one of her concerns that she didn't want the city to take responsibility for. Mr. Englund further clarified that building exteriors would continue to fall under the city's Business Enhancement Program (BEP) with those annual inspections continuing. As stakeholders, Chief O'Neill noted that staff from the Police, Fire, Community Development Departments, and the RVA had spent considerable time over the last few months evaluating this proposal. However, before moving ahead further, Chief O'Neill noted the need to be assured that the City Council was supportive of staff putting things together for potential launch with legislation in 2018 unless the legislation fails. Chief O'Neill noted that, with City Council approval to pur- sue this service, staff would then work out the details over the next few months and again present a more formal recommendation to the City Council. However, in the best interest of the community and in the near future, Chief O'Neill spoke in support of taking back the fire and life safety modules at a minimum. At the request of individual Councilmembers, staff was asked to email infor- mation on the bills as referenced by Chief O'Neill; with Chief O'Neill advising that the City of Waite Park, MN had initiated the legislation.