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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 29, 2018 Page 16 fined to rental units. The City is also looking at senior housing. There are seniors with disabilities who go into senior housing at age 62, and those units have a 15- year cap on it, so people are being "dumped on the street" at age 77. There should be varieties of programs that help some families who need other options to own property. The state legislature talks about affordable housing but have not been very creative. The solution is not to always put people in a square box that is 3- to 10-stories tall. Senator Marty concurred that the issue of affordable housing contracts is an im- portant issue. Federal government Section 8 housing used to have a time limit as well. He agreed there should be a diversity of people in communities. Rep. Hausman is chair of the bonding committee and would be the point person on that. The Governor's bonding bill put a lot of money into affordable housing. In the Metro area, this is a major issue. Some of the senior high-rises in core cities have huge backlogs of deferred maintenance. Funding needs to be put in it, in a good way. Councilmember Willmus commented on tobacco sales, and moving the legal age from 18 to 21. He noted he will be asking for this to be an agenda item for a fu- ture Council meeting. However, it might be more efficient if addressed on the State level so people aren't skipping from community to community to purchase tobacco and nicotine-based products. Senator Marty commented that tobacco legislation has been very slow recently so many communities have been doing it on their own. The State should be trying to address some of these things, but he would also encourage Roseville to address them. Senator Marty then asked how big the OVAL project is: Mayor Roe noted that there is currently a $2 million figure serving as a place- holder for OVAL. Mr. Trudgeon added that a study is underway and a final figure should be availa- ble by mid-February. Senator Marty summarized that the Governor's proposal has a lot of dollars ear- marked for higher education but does not have a lot of local projects. He reported that Rep. Hausman believes the final bill will add in some local projects. The last time the OVAL received revenue, it took a year or two, and it may be the same sort of thing here. Senator Marty noted the sprinkler requirement for multi-family may be controver- sial, as some people are concerned about requiring sprinklers in single-family in the future.