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REDA Meeting Minutes—Tuesday,July 18,2017 Page 12 Ms. Purdu concurred, noting that there would be no "affordable housing police" counting units in the community in 2039 to ensure the city's compliance. Recess President Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 7:38 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 7:47 p.m. C. Discuss Economic Development Comprehensive Plan for the 2040 Comprehensive Plan Mayor Roe welcomed and introduced WSB Comprehensive Plan Economic Development Consultant Jim Gromberg to guide the Economic Development component of the 2040 comprehensive plan and priorities adopted by the REDA in early 2016 as a starting point for tonight's discussion. Mr. Gromberg outlined the consultant's analysis to-date in his memorandum dated July 10, 2017 (Attachment A). With that SWOT Analysis providing individual EDA member ambitions and goals, Mr. Gromberg noted that they were then broken down in to high, medium and low priorities with related timeframes, resulting in five consistent themes developed as objectives in moving toward those tasks, as detailed in the bench handout entitled, "Draft Roseville Economic Development Authority Strategic Plan Objectives." At the conclusion of his review of strategic plan objectives, Mr. Gromberg sought additional feedback from the REDA on the plan of action detailed in the bench handout for those tasks and strategies before moving toward the next step in assigning actual steps and projected dates for their completion. Member McGehee stated that she liked them and that they made sense. Specific to "shovel-ready sites," Member McGehee asked Mr. Gromberg for his interpretation of that. From his economic development expertise perspective, Mr. Gromberg opined that the thought process was that a site would be ready to go if and when identified by a developer. Mr. Gromberg noted that this included preparation and completion of environmental, preliminary geo-technical and survey work, with an updated community profile available that provided prospective developers with available employment potential information. As an example, Mr. Gromberg noted that a site selector team for a data center sought a certain number of acres, they would focus on electricity and water sewer infrastructure in place or readily available and was not interested in hearing from a city any trepidation as to what was realistically available. Mr. Gromberg stated that a city needed to do its homework, identify a site and have background information readily available to immediately respond to questions, including possibly getting property owners together beforehand in preparation for such a potential opportunity.