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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 23, 2019 Page 13 Councilmember Groff asked in the future that staff do a search on developers in the City of Roseville. He thought five years was not an unreasonable length of time and if there are cases or issues against the developer, he would like to know that early on in the process rather than later on because this caught him off guard. Councilmember Willmus asked if a suggestion to Reuter Walton has been made with respect to this individual to actually trespassing him so that if he is caught or observed on a job site, he actually could be arrested for trespass. Ms. Gundlach indicated she has not asked that specific question of Reuter Walton. She did know that Reuter Walton did not hire Ricardo Batres, it was the subcon- tractor who hired him, and Reuter Walton did fire that subcontractor. She indi- cated she would follow up to see if there is an ability to actually trespass persons to their property. Mayor Roe indicated that is a technique used by retailers with habitual shoplifters. Councilmember Etten asked if there was anything in the contract that allows the city, to consider violations at another site to be a default or breach of contract or is it specifically the Roseville location where the finding of legal improprieties would have to be found. Ms. Gundlach explained the contract as written only where the city can take ac- tion based on the property in Roseville. It does not give staff the reach to go be- yond that. Councilmember Etten asked going forward if the city would be unable to write a contract to enforce something from outside of the city or is that something that the EDA attorney would need to be consulted on. Ms. Gundlach indicated the EDA attorney should be asked that question. It is very difficult to know what is going on at the sites in the city when staff is not there everyday so it would be difficult to go outside the city boundary. She noted she could put it on the list of things the city can do to be proactive. Councilmember Laliberte explained it is disappointing that there was knowledge out there prior to the EDA taking action and disappointing that the EDA was not fully made aware of all of the information that could have been made available to the EDA so it all could have been considered at the time. She appreciated the up- date and review that the EDA attorney has provided to them. Councilmember Laliberte indicated the city and KSTP have been focused on one person and the name he has been using but she would assume there are other peo- ple out there within this field of work who are bad. She would like to know more ideas about how photos of those individuals or pending charges, what can the de-