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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 25, 2017 Page 10 McGehee moved, Etten seconded, adoption of Resolution No. 11450 (At- tachment A) entitled, "A Resolution Approving a Special Property Tax Levy, for the Benefit of the Roseville Economic Development Authority, on Real Estate to the Ramsey County Auditor for the Fiscal Year of 2018" as pre- sented. Roll Call Ayes: Willmus, Laliberte, Etten, McGehee and Roe. Nays: None. f. Receive Presentation for the Final Summary of Input Received during Phase I of the Comprehensive Plan Update's Community Engagement Effort (PROJ0037) Community Development Director Kari Collins introduced this item and deferred to LHB Consultant Lydia Major for an update and outline of next steps for Phase I1 of the community engagement effort as part of the Comprehensive Plan Update process. Consultant Lydia Major As outlined in the LHB Memorandum dated September 15, 2017 (RCA Exhibit A), Ms. Major summarized activities to-date as recently presented to the Planning Commission. Ms. Major advised that the rewrite of the comprehensive plan was underway at this time. Councilmember McGehee stated her disappointment in community engagement to-date and questioned the variables she observed in the verbal presentation ver- sus graphics and sought clarification for the origin of that data. Ms. Major agreed that they were disappointed with the limited turnout for walka- bouts in particular, and reviewed the process used to notify neighbors prior to those events. Ms. Major noted that one exception was in the Har Mar Mall neighborhood, resulting in a turnout of over forty participants. Since then and prior to the next community engagement effort, Ms. Major advised that they would be making more use of NextDoor.com as well as trying different times of day for intercepts to reach more people. In response to Councilmember McGehee, Ms. Major reviewed the data used in the graphics (pages 3 -4) of the table, advising that the narrative provided an overall summary across all engagement efforts, with the tables further defining re- sponses within each section. Specific to the intercept boards, Ms. Major reported that their locations were discussed at length with staff and the Planning Commis- sion with limited feedback received, and limited cooperation from local shop- ping malls. Ms. Major advised that the attempt had been to place intercept boards at those locations most accessible providing the best outreach they could strate- gize, but only resulted in approximately 40-50 responses. However, Ms. Major