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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 9,2023 Page 11 Councilmember Groff thought interesting points were made but he thinks that the City is a hub that still attracts people from out of the City to purchase things and this is one way of defraying the cost to local tax payers on that amount of money as it will be coming from the greater area and will also be going towards things as required for the greater good of the City. Councilmember Etten agreed. Mayor Roe added that there was nuance to some of the points made during the public comment. One of the things brought up by Councilmember Groff is that there is a significant portion of the sales tax that is paid by people outside of Rose- ville and that is what the City has been hearing from residents about. That it is the local tax payers right now that are paying for the maintenance of facilities that are used by employees and shoppers and people who come to Roseville to do com- merce. It is not necessarily always,but does include City streets and utility supplies that connect services in the City and those services are provided for their customers and employees who are often times non-residents of the City. The notion in trying to address one of the concerns of residents, is that part of the bill for a lot of the services provided in Roseville should be paid by a lot of the users who are not necessarily residents or local businesses. So,sales tax is an opportunity to diversify that source of funding and by State Law the City cannot adopt a local sales tax to pay for Police or Fire services. It has to be for specific capital type projects. He believed what is being discussed meets those requirements and also meets the desire of the residents to have that diversified source of revenue that comes from people who are not necessarily residents or businesses of the City. He noted the City is not currently collecting $108 million in property taxes, so it is a shift of the future re- sponsibility for this expenditure from property taxes to a local option sale tax, but that shift is not only from Rosedale and HarMar. That shift is from Rosedale,Har- Mar and also all of the residential taxpayers in the City. For those reasons, he was in favor of pursuing this. Councilmember Groff noted ultimately this item goes to the voters to decide. Roll Call Ayes: Etten, Groff, Schroeder, and Roe. Nays: None Consider Adoption of Roseville's 2023 Legislative Priorities City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Re- quest for Council Action and related attachments dated January 9, 2023. Councilmember Etten indicated the last item is a lot,but he thought it was the right idea. He thanked staff for working on this.