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Attachment A Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 4, 2021 Page 19 804 area than just Roseville. He stated having that research done would be helpful for 805 him. 806 807 Mayor Roe indicated along the lines of local projects for sales tax, he thought one 808 of the areas the Council knows is a constant issue is the Snelling and County Road 809 C area if there is a way to wrap that into the analysis and discussion besides 810 Rosedale. That area is very difficult, especially for commuter traffic in all direc- 811 tions but also pedestrian traffic specifically. He thought that would be something 812 to not overlook in the process. 813 814 Councilmember Groff explained when talking about pedestrian traffic, one of the 815 frustrations of living south of Highway 36 is how difficult it is to get to the other 816 side of Highway 36. That is one thing he would like a little input and research done 817 on. 818 819 Mayor Roe thanked Councilmember Strahan for providing her thoughts at the end 820 of last year and wondered if the Council wanted to weigh in on any of the items as 821 a Council. He stated it seemed sensible to him to have a resolution of support for 822 the catalytic converter legislation. He thought the community was definitely im- 823 pacted by that with all of the thefts and anything that can be done to deter the ability 824 to sell anything stolen will help in that regard. In terms of looking at housing and 825 affordable housing, he thought the Council had identified that as a priority in the 826 city and to the extent there are opportunities to support additional funding from the 827 State. He is supportive of adding that as a legislative priority from the City. In 828 terms of public safety, he thought the Council should look at supporting additional 829 funding for mental health services for the community and thought it could go a long 830 way to reducing the cost to provide public safety services because the CityÓs offic- 831 ers can be focused in other areas as well as the firefighters and emergency medical 832 teams. Also, in terms of outcomes, he thought it made sense to support additional 833 funding, adequate funding, for the judicial system. 834 835 Councilmember Strahan explained she has spoken with Senator Marty as well as 836 Representative Hausman and Senator Isaacson regarding catalytic converters and 837 quite frankly, Senator Isaacson was not aware of the degree to which the catalytic 838 converter issue is plaguing the City. When Senator Isaacson heard of this, he indi- 839 cated he would sign on this bill with Senator Marty. She thought there was interest 840 and knew that Representative Hausman was interested in pursuing something like 841 this. She noted it was important to provide adequate funding for affordable housing 842 because this is a racial and equity issue and home ownership has a great disparity 843 in the funding, which the City does not see only as an affordable housing issue but 844 also sees as an equity and inclusion aspect and how this is marketed and attracts 845 people to work in that regard. With any policing changes, unfortunately, one bad 846 situation could change where the City sits at any time so anything the City can do 847 to prevent, is always going to make them feel a little bit better about the system. 848