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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 15,2018 Page 10 Councilmember Laliberte stated her understanding was the Legislature was going to consider taking a two-prong approach on that. One being, the special license for that particular address to have a combined license and then to continue to pur- sue this. The City does have the resolution that has already been passed by the Council. Mr. Trudgeon stated he could reach out to Bent Brewstillery to have them send information to the City to review and see what they are planning to propose and bring it back to the Council for discussion. Councilmember Laliberte thought that would be good and maybe an additional paragraph could be added indicating Council support. Mr. Trudgeon stated he has been learning more about the complexity of Munici- pal Hotel Licensing. Basically, there is not an ability for statutory cities such as Roseville to license hotels unless the City has a Community Health Board. Cur- rently in Ramsey County, Ramsey County covers the majority of the cities and takes over that function. This has been identified as a need because the City does have some problem properties with lots of crime and management issues. He stat- ed this is a high priority item. Chief Mathwig is working through his Chiefs As- sociation to get other organizations and Police Departments, on board with this item in order for cities to have a better ability for cities to do hotel licensing. Mr. Trudgeon stated he understands that Charter Cities have the ability under State Law to license, but Roseville does not have that ability because Roseville is not a Charter City. Mr. Trudgeon stated there is some ability that some of the work can be delegated back to the City upon mutual agreement with the County and the City, as well as approval by the State. He was just starting to explore that and determine the pos- sibilities and what it could look like. He indicated he has calls into the County to see what their interest is and to get a better understanding of what the County is exactly doing with hotels. He stated the City can continue to look at Legislation and maybe include other coalition cities because this is also a problem in other cities, as well as looking at an administrative remedy. Councilmember McGehee stated she reviewed the proposal and did not see that it gives the City much of what it is actually looking for. It seems like a lot of work and does not get the City the kind of inspection the City is looking for. She was not sure about that. She understood there were two problem hotels in Roseville and it is possible that at least one is particularly problematic. She wondered if the City wanted to look at getting rid of the hotel and replacing it with housing be- cause the City was talking about adding housing to that area.