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City of IØSEVI1A lf Minnesota,USA Regular City Council Meeting Minutes City Hall Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Monday, July 8, 2019 1. Roll Call Mayor Roe called the meeting to order at approximately 6:00 p.m. Voting and Seating Order: Willmus, Laliberte, Groff, Etten, and Roe. City Manager Patrick Trudgeon and City Attorney Mark Gaughan were also present. 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Approve Agenda Groff moved, Etten seconded, approval of the agenda as presented. Roll Call Ayes: Willmus, Laliberte, Groff, Etten, and Roe. Nays: None. 4. Public Comment Mayor Roe called for public comment by members of the audience on any non-agenda items. Ms. Chauntyll Allen, 1358 Edmund Avenue, St. Paul, indicated she was with Black Lives Matter Twin Cities. She noted she was before the City Council on behalf of Corrine Tay- lor in support of Justice for Ralph Bell. She gave the City Council her personal history with the City and noted she was raised in the Rondo Community. She indicated she re- cently got involved because Ralph Bell went missing and his car was found running in Roseville. She was really concerned and reached out to family members. She explained last year about this time her son went missing in St. Paul and was missing for about a week. She indicated she is a mobilizer and was able to organize Metro Transit Police and had Commanders, a missing persons task force, and St. Paul and Minneapolis Police in- volved with a mass search in the Twin Cities on the Blue and Green Transit line looking for her son for 24 hours. Ms. Allen explained she reached out to try to help Ralph Bell's family. His family kept saying that Roseville Police's missing person employee was on vacation until the 26th She,being an organizer, wanted to get straight at that. The family told her to hold off be- cause the family believes in the system and that the City of Roseville was going to look for their family member. The mother believed the missing person's department would utilize the resources and look for this man because he had been missing. He was missing for ninety days in Roseville and found in broad daylight. She talked to people and said that the very least the City could do in Stillwater and Roseville is get on the news and ask people to search their backyards as low and behold, he was found in one of the backyards in Roseville.