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