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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 8, 2019 Page 13 Councilmember Laliberte stated the reason she wanted an open house is to signal to the community that there are some things the Council is really interested in do- ing in Roseville and the resident might now know that. She also has experience while at trade fairs and other conferences where the information has been inaccu- rate and with an open house, the City is able to have people come and correct the inaccuracies or misunderstandings. Councilmember Willmus stated that is an item he would like to have the Council set aside some time and discuss exactly what the Council wants to do and how the Council wants to handle it. Councilmember Groff stated he would like more information on the underground- ing of electric utilities because he is not familiar with that. Mayor Roe stated when a group of partners did the Rice Street and Highway 36 Interchange, there was a section of Rice Street between County Road B and County Road B2 that was also redone at that time and one of the things done as a part of that project was to underground the electric supply wires that were over- head in that corridor. The way Xcel Energy does it, is that the company does not necessarily look to do that on their own as a part of maintaining their own system. It is a premium to make that change so there is a program where Xcel Energy charges that premium back to the rate payers of the City that are requesting it. He stated there might be a number of corridors in the community that the City thinks might be priorities, where the City would like to see the undergrounding happen to improve the aesthetics of the corridor, the image of the community, and poten- tially less storm damage. Mayor Roe asked if the Council wound want to look at developing a priority list of where the City should do undergrounding in the fu- ture and maybe start taking on some of these projects if it happens to coincide with County road construction. Councilmember Groff stated he would like to see that as a future agenda item. Councilmember Etten stated he would be okay with bringing this back for future discussion. He would want to be very specific about where the special opportuni- ties were and was not sure he was ready to go along every road that is getting re- done to do this. Councilmember Willmus stated hotel/motel licensing is something the Council needs to keep the ball moving on and the City Campus Area Master Plan is some- thing that needs to get started on as well. He thought it was a broader conversa- tion that would tie into the conversation with the Space Needs Analysis that was done. He thought with respect to the Centerpointe PUD, he would like an update on where things are with that and is the Council able to look forward to seeing what the City should do with that PUD at this point.