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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 17, 2018 Page 23 Public Comment Mr. Jim Bull, 3061 Woodbridge Street Mr. Bull stated he was against increasing the ordinances on City citizens and this is one more he sees as a burden. He stated a lot of people in Minnesota go south for the winter. He stated those properties will be vacant and he wondered if the property owner would need to register their properties as vacant. He wondered if this would become an annual fee for those part time residents in the City. He wondered how that would work. He understood there were some problem proper- ties, but the City can't put the problem onto everybody and over tax them, over fee them, and over register them just because the resident fits into a category. The people that are walking away from the properties and leaving them vacant are not the ones that are going to be registering them. He asked the Council to take a look at all of the aspects of it and be fair, so people don't have to do things unnec- essarily. Mayor Roe closed the public comment and asked if the Council had any addition- al comments or questions for staff on the topic. Mayor Roe thought it might make sense to have some sort of tracking of re- sources that have been associated with this over a period of time to see how this is impacting the workload of the department and costs. Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 8:48 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 8:55 p.m. c. Discuss City Campus Solar Proposals Public Works Director Marc Culver briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the RCA and related attachments dated September 17, 2018. Mr. Rich Ragatz and Mr. Chris Psihos with iDeal Engineering were at the meet- ing and made a presentation to the Council. Councilmember McGehee stated she noticed the escalator is less than previous programs that the City has come before them, which is very good. She under- stood the life of the panels is between 25 to 40 years, but she also knew there is a declining capacity of them. She asked for more information on the panels being proposed and what their declining ability to produce energy is. Mr. Psihos reviewed the panels with the Council.