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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,November 25, 2019 Page 7 Councilmember Laliberte explained because there so many buildings affected and there was a request for a plan, she would ask whether there was a desire to ad- dress one building at a time and get that back to being approved for license again or what would the plan be for attacking all of these issues. Mr. Roston explained he did submit a detailed plan that both details what has been done as well as a projection for timing. He thought it was exhibit D to his letter submitted to Council. He indicated it was hard to answer that question on a general level because different issues are in different buildings. He noted the lo- gistics needed to be worked out. Their goal is to get this corrected as fast as pos- sible. Mayor Roe reviewed public hearing protocol and opened the public hearing at ap- proximately 7:12 p.m. Public Comment Ms. Tammy McGehee, 77 Mid Oaks Lane Mr. McGehee indicated she was speaking on this topic because she was part of the Council when this went forward, and she would like to remind everyone that when the Council did this, it was because of these apartments. She explained she has lived in Roseville longer than fifteen years and these apartments have not been the star of Roseville at any point during that time. To say that there were not any problems is simply to say the city did not know about the problems it had be- cause the city was first alerted to these problems by social workers who went into those buildings to try to help those residents. The City Council felt compelled to see to it that people who lived in this community were allowed to live in safe, de- cent, clean, respectable housing. She noted the city went through the first process and the only apartment complex owners who came and complained about the re- view of their materials was this particular apartment complex. This has obviously been an ongoing problem and those cupboards and cabinets were not installed last year and look like that now. She noted the owner of the complex cannot control the BBQ in the bathtub or the bagging of the smoke detectors but there were meetings with tenants living in those apartments and there were many social ser- vice agencies within the city and community that were willing to go in. She noted a video was made and well received about renter's responsibilities and tenant's responsibilities and the city was careful to make sure that people were not dis- placed in any of these processes. But she felt it is unacceptable to have this type of housing in any community, not just the metro area but everywhere in the Unit- ed States. She thought the city had a responsibility to see to it that the buildings are cleaned up even if the city needs to take them by eminent domain to clean them up. The buildings are not going to be cleaned up by a piecemeal basis when there is mold in walls, roaches in the sockets, and the whole place is falling apart because nobody is taking care of it. She noted that most of these buildings and most of the rent is being supported by Minnesota taxpayers so somebody else can