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REDA Meeting Minutes — Tuesday, May S, 2017 Page 6 Member Laliberte also noted her continued interest in community engagement early in the project and asked that as a separate discussion the REDA discuss that in general in order to provide staff direction in how many policy criteria items the REDA was looking a project meeting in various sections of the policy and what would trigger what was or was not subsequently presented to the REDA. Member Willmus agreed that when a tentative project comes before the REDA or City Council and applicants are seeking to publicly engage with them, the setting should involve staff earlier in the process for pending action items coming before various bodies rather than approaching individual REDA Members and/or Councilmembers. President Roe agreed with Member Willmus, especially to make sure staff is in the loop and provide some guarantee of the continuity of discussions. President Roe agreed with Member Laliberte in seeking public input for the city financing portion and appreciated the clarification and need to seek input from the broader community beyond residents within the 500' adjacency to the subject parcel. Between now and needed action on City public financing, President Roe asked that staff review ideas to further promote that community engagement beyond a required tax increment financing public hearing; and offered his support for other community -wide outreach efforts. Member McGehee offered her support for both of those suggestions; as well as giving staff the authority beyond the public financing policy checklist to expound on how the checklist items are being achieved with staff readily able to speak to that finer detail. President Roe opined that the developer's narrative was an attempt to do as suggested by Member McGehee. However, since the different boxes on the checklist have different purposes based on the particular development, President Roe noted that the quality of information provided in the narrative was an important piece. President Roe stated his confidence that staff would err on the side of caution in reviewing the criteria. Member Etten stated his appreciation to the developer for providing the narrative and while they would obviously bring their perspective to that component, opined that it was up to the REDA as to whether they agreed that the criteria were being met or not rather than relying on staff to filter development information for the REDA. In exchange for having had to ask for more detailed information at the last REDA meeting, Member Laliberte reiterated her preference that the information is provided early in the process; but expressed her confidence that staff had clearly received that message during the last discussion.