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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 30, 2023 Page 5 Mr. Trudgeon did not believe the City currently does background checks on the applications but insurance and other things needed to be submitted. Councilmember Strahan thought it was important to mention that since this has been in effect the City has, in addition to the limits, or the minimum requirement stays, it is four unrelated adults or less or one family. She indicated the potentially unlicensed property is something the City has just learned about and will be inves- tigating that situation. Mayor Roe stated in terms of certain types of applications that the Council consid- ers, he was thinking about land use which has statutory time limits for considera- tion, where if no action is taken within a certain amount of time it is automatically approved by State law. He did not think anything like that applied here as it is not written into City Code but there is some notion that because the applications have been received in house,the City has to act on them under the City's current system. He wondered if it was possible to table action on these applications if the City wishes to consider changes to its system before taking up these applications. He also wondered if that was a legitimate course the Council could take or does the Council need to take action up or down on these applications before more discus- sion can be had. City Attorney Tierney advised the Council they can delay consideration of these applications if more is needed to be known about them. She explained that given the applications have been received by the City,unless the City has a policy, these are not land use applications and there is no statutory time frame and no time frame with the City's Ordinances. But laying on top of everything the Council does is general concepts of fairness and due process so unless it is common for the Council to delay consideration of an application pending rewriting an Ordinance, she would encourage the Council not to do that here. Mayor Roe indicated sometimes the City does an interim ordinance in order for the Council to consider something. If that was something the Council wanted to take up, he presumed an interim ordinance would still require the ten-day publication notice of any ordinance so the City could not act on an interim ordinance this even- ing,for instance. But if the Council wanted to do that,it would need to be scheduled for a subsequent meeting and proper notice provided. City Attorney Tierney indicated that was correct. Mayor Roe thought that good questions had been brought up by the neighbors and maybe there were more things the Council could look at in terms of how the City Code works, which will probably take some time to figure it all out. He indicated the Council has the three items to take up and then the Council has to figure out where it wants to go in addition to that.