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Regular city Council Meeting Monday,July 22, 2019 Page 3 guys. Ted questioned if the Police Department is letting down the City of Roseville and not doing their job to protect and serve in the city. Mayor Roe indicated that by state statute, the Mayor of the City of Roseville is not the boss of any of the city's employees. There is a system in Roseville and practically all of the communities in Minnesota, other than Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth, where in- stead of having the Mayor as the chief executive and manager of the City and the city employees, the City Council hires a City Manager who reports to the whole City Council. The City Manager is the executive of the organization and manages the employees. One of the employees that reports to the City Manager is the Police Chief and the department reports to the Police Chief. Ted asked what Roseville is going to do about this young man who was murdered here in Roseville or what is the next step because it seems like this has been brushed under the rug. He stated there are things going around that it is open, closed, it is not done, it is this and that, but there is no action from Roseville. He felt that right now, it is really danger- ous to ride through Roseville and along Hwy 36 as it does not feel safe at all, especially knowing the circumstances and the things that did occur in this city. Mayor Roe indicated he did not know if the City of Roseville has come to that conclusion as an investigative body, the Police Department. He did not know if that message would be the message that is being put out there by the Police Department. A member from the audience asked why the Police Chief was not at this meeting. Mayor Roe indicated the Police Chief is in the room but the purpose of this meeting is to hear public comment as he stated at the beginning of the public comment period and the City does not generally get into discussions on the items that are brought forward on pub- lic comment because those items are not on the agenda. Also, the City of Roseville has professional investigators doing that work and that has been ongoing since the beginning of this case. There have been communications, he understands, between investigators and members of the family and other interested parties. Communication is ongoing but unfor- tunately sometimes in the case of an investigation not all the information can be made public either because conclusions are preliminary or more information is needed to sub- stantiate them or to refute them. The City of Roseville does not want to put preliminary information out there that may not be accurate. The other piece to that is sometimes there is information and if put out there in the public, it may impact the ability to gather further information. So once again, those decisions are made by the law enforcement profession- als of the Police Department, based on their experiences and expertise and certainly, in this case as a part-time elected Mayor, he will defer to their expertise until he does not see that he has a reason to do otherwise. Mr. Ted asked who searched for Ralph Bell in the City of Roseville.