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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 14,2017 Page 3 well as providing coaching, housing and job placement for those coming out of the corrections system. Vice President of Business Operations Nick Swaggert thanked the City of Ro- seville and its Housing & Economic Development Program Manager Jeanne Kel- sey for their leadership in diverting materials from landfills and accommodating the opportunity with the city's permit process and code. Mr. Swaggert advised that the State of Minnesota and Hennepin County had provided grants to address this viable way to perform these services. Mr. Swaggert also noted that environ- mental staff representatives from Ramsey County had been present at the Rose- ville site to see the program in progress for potential interest in the future. Mr. Swaggert noted that recent newspaper articles highlighting the Roseville project had provided additional promotion and opportunities for the program. Mr. Swaggert displayed some photos of the Roseville demolition process and also some of the materials salvages, with some of those materials made available for resale and re-use at the program's center at 26th and Minnehaha Avenue in Min- neapolis. Mayor Roe asked if the program worked with private contractors on remodels and deconstruction in the early stages of a remodeling project. Mr. Swaggert responded that the program was willing to do so, but reported that many private contractors saw the program as simply another step in the process unless the homeowner advocated for those services with those contractors. Mr. Swaggert noted that interest in using the program remained a work in process es- pecially in addressing timeline issues with private contractors. Mr. Adams stated that Better Futures Minnesota hoped to change the future, with 160 municipalities across the country having ordinances or incentives in place to promote deconstruction services and increase that narrative. Mr. Adams noted that on this Roseville project, it had employed five men full-time on the project for two weeks; with those coming out of the corrections system typically consid- ered unemployable without this type of project; and again thanked the City for their participation. Mayor Roe noted the need to interest more private contractors to improve those employment goals; and suggested City Council consideration in the future to look at potential incentives for deconstruction and other benefits to all parties with such programs. Mr. Adams noted that this deconstructing program had been funded by the State of Minnesota in its first two years as a pilot. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Adams reviewed how commercial materials and deconstruction could be implemented with the program's emphasis focused on re-use of materi- als from properties built prior to 1940 since those materials commanded the most