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Attachment A Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 4, 2021 Page 17 714 subtractions and going from there. Then, the next discussion may be the next level 715 of conversation about those changes. 716 717 The Council agreed. 718 th 719 Mr. Trudgeon indicated he planned on bringing this back on January 25 for further 720 discussion. 721 722 Public Comment 723 724 Mayor Roe offered an opportunity for public comment. 725 726 Miss Priscilla Morton 727 Ms. Morton explained she had specific comments about the environmental sus- 728 tainability portions of this plan, which she will defer because it will be discussed 729 at a later date. She did believe it was a very strong interest in the community and 730 it was not necessarily pointed out in the survey that was taken. Environmental 731 sustainability overlaps with things like development and housing and as the City 732 talks about these individual priorities, she hoped some of these discussions can be 733 merged so that the importance of how they overlap and effect each other are seen 734 from the point of view of the people who are actually living and working in the 735 development that is produced. 736 737 f. Discuss RosevilleÓs 2021 Legislative Priorities 738 City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Re- 739 quest for Council Action and related attachments dated January 4, 2021. 740 741 Mayor Roe noted on the local option sales tax the calendar for 2021, consideration 742 is that the City has to get their list of projects, dollar amounts, tax value, and all of 743 that to the legislature by the end of this month in order for the legislature to take it 744 up in the 2021 session. He thought the recognition was that is not feasible. Where 745 this was left at the last Council discussion, was for staff to come back with some 746 numbers associated with those things, potential projects, costs, and what that might 747 look like, but things intervened and nothing has been followed through on that con- 748 versation. 749 750 Councilmember Willmus stated that was something he wanted to call attention to 751 and with respect to the larger retail centers in the city and the impact that is being 752 seen on local infrastructure, this is something the Council needs to stay on top of 753 and be proactive with. He indicated they have frankly let this slide for many years 754 and now the City is at a point of time where the Council needs to be in front of it a 755 little bit so that the City is prepared for 2022. He noted there is significant potential 756 to help the City with infrastructure costs, it is something the Council wavers on 757 from time to time and it is set aside. But it is something that, as a group, needs to 758 be focused on for staff to bring forward to the legislature.