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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, July 8, 2019 Page 18 to visit 2 businesses in the Twin Lakes Business area and to "Achieve market val- ue growth of at least $20 million by the end of 2020" to the goal of Achieve Mar- ket Value Growth in Twin Lakes through redevelopment, business attraction, and job growth. Mr. Trudgeon reviewed the goal, Continue Business, Retention, Expansion & At- traction programming for existing and new businesses adding to the Measure of Success portion to conduct at least two business visits a month and Using Re- sources USA, annually track the number of businesses and evaluate trends in business loss and gain. Councilmember Laliberte asked through that, would the City learn where the City ranks with regard to brick and mortar retail vs. Amazon and online. She won- dered if it would go into sectors. Mr. Trudgeon believed it would, the SIC Codes breaks it down. Mayor Roe asked if using Resources USA would incur a cost to the City. Mr. Trudgeon indicated it would be a subscription that the City would have. Community Development Director Janice Gundlach indicated Resource USA is free. Mr. Trudgeon reviewed the goal, Implementation of Rice/Larpenteur Alliance noting the following changes; under Commissions: Economic Development Au- thority and under Others: International Institute, Karen Organization of Minneso- ta, Bhutanese Community Organization of Minnesota and Association of Nepalis in Minnesota. Under the timeline to add to the title 2020 and Beyond "Participate in permanent Alliance". Under Measures of Success the addition of Hold at least one neighborhood event, Make at least 10 Roseville business owner contacts as part of Rice/Larpenteur Alliance, Implement at least one place-making event, Amount of$$ of new infrastructure investment in area. Councilmember Willmus wondered with regard to the second bullet point on page five, "Make at least 10 Roseville business owner contacts..."versus business con- tacts because he thought that was a critical component of it, to make sure the City has commercial property owners onboard and not just the tenants of the building. Mr. Trudgeon thought that was a good point. Councilmember Laliberte asked in regard to the last two bullet points, "Imple- ment at least one place-making event per year."