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