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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 22, 2018 Page 11 the message out, perhaps get some quotes on a text system. He thought the City should continue to discuss possibly implementing the snow emergency system for the 2019-2020 winter season. Councilmember McGehee stated because so many people come into Roseville that do not live in the City, the City will not be able to text everyone, so she thought some variant of the Bloomington Model, a blanket rule, would work best. Councilmember Etten stated he loved the work done through the Government Al- liance on Race and Equity (GARE) and thought it was one of the intentions when he came back from the League of Minnesota Cities training and one of the things that can be changed on how the City does things in a more significant and perma- nent way. He asked which properties or areas were targeted in the process of the door hangers. Chief Mathwig stated staff looked at the data from the last three years of snow events and he went through the information and had nine locations in Roseville which accounted for thirty-six percent of the citations over those years and all nine of them were multi-family. He reviewed the areas that were targeted for no- tification. He noted the common denominator was multi-family. Chief Mathwig stated during the process staff worked with landlords to find out what was being done for notification and the common denominator for all of them was door hangers, some were doing more, and some were doing less. He stated two of the complexes had Somali languages spoken and two had Spanish, so the door hangers were made up with Spanish, English and Somali language on the same door. Councilmember Etten thought the biggest issue the City is looking at is communi- cation. No matter what the City does, it will be communication. The goal would be to find how to communicate better. He thought the City has found a way to start the process of better communication but until there is better communication, he did not think it would make a difference, no matter what is done. Mr. Culver thought those were good points. Whatever the City does, he thought staff still needed to work with building managers for the unit buildings to try to post the regulations in different languages throughout the building and notify res- idents of different subscription services for notification. He thought if the City were to implement some sort of texting service or app, the City could reach a broader audience. Councilmember Etten agreed that broadening the way the City communicates is important and communication is the only way moving forward.