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80 information to Mr. Culver because the Commission is looking to schedule time in 81 January to discuss that topic. 82 83 Ms. Donna Peterson, 2436 Haskell Street, wanted to follow up on some of the 84 things Ms. Howie talked about and noted she was also a member of Resilient 85 Roseville. She indicated a few days ago she was pumped up because she had the 86 chance to go and hear some of the orientation for Minnesota Green Corp. She noted 87 this is patterned after Ameri Corp. and this year in Minnesota there are forty 88 projects and are working on all kinds of different things regarding environmental 89 issues. She noted there are more than twelve cities that have a project and it seems 90 like it is one concrete way to try to get a plan together and a program together to 91 get something in submitted for 2020. 92 93 Ms. Peterson indicated she also found some grant possibilities. Most she learned 94 at the PCA when she was there for this Green Corp. orientation. One of them was 95 for trees and forestry's from DNR and that was forwarded to the director of 96 Roseville Parks and Recreation Dept. Another one is about alternative landscaping 97 equipment and the third is new and is part of the Volkswagen settlement money. 98 Another one was seed grants from the Clean Energy Resource Teams for clean 99 energy projects. Some of these grants are probably small and who knows how 100 many of these are out there, but she found these in a week. She wondered if people 101 at the city level even know about these grants and is there time to actually work on 102 them if interested in them. 103 104 Mr. Culver indicated the Heavy -Duty Electrical grant is anew one he was not aware 105 of, but the city has actually taken advantage of something that is similar to that. It 106 is a Green Fleet Grant that will pay to get diesel engines off the street and Roseville 107 has taken advantage of that grant and is replacing one of the older plow vehicles. 108 He explained the city does take advantage of the grants and a lot of this is learned 109 through the city resources through the GreenStep cities and the city partners with 110 that. He noted Ryan Johnson is a great resource and has tapped into those things. 111 The city does make an effort to apply for grants that staff feels makes sense and can 112 make use of. The city was appreciative of Resilient Roseville. He explained by 113 May of 2020 Roseville is slated to be at step 4 and then step 5 will come a year or 114 two after that. 115 116 Member Wozniak asked if there was not an opportunity for a group like Resilient 117 Roseville to do some research and provide the Commission with information on a 118 topic that the Commission has been discussing. 119 120 Chair Cihacek indicated there is an opportunity, all the group would need to do is 121 ask for time on a future agenda 122 123 Mr. Culver explained the city cannot consider them an officially sanctioned 124 commission or sub -commission or something like that, but the group can be put on 125 afuture agenda. Page 3 of 6