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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 27, 2023 Page 9 Councilmember Strahan indicated this does not include the OVAL either, it would just include City Hall and the Police Department. She has concerns because the fence in Minneapolis did not necessarily stop any destruction. She was also con- cerned about the cost involved. She explained this states a fence would be installed within 24 hours but if the City had an egregious situation a lot of damage could occur in that amount of time and she did have a lot of concern with bringing this forward especially with all of the Multicultural Advisory Committee(MAC) input because the City Council relies on march decisions and although this is monetarily not huge, she thought this was a pretty large decision on the face of what people see as over policing. She also thought people in the community are going to want to have input and she would think that in the least, the City would task the MAC with being their input. She was also curious to know what would happen to their funding needs then if other cities pulled out of this consortium. She knew that most of the cities, any monitored by Ramsey County Sheriff and then for some reason, Lauderdale, are also not involved, which is most of the people around Roseville, except for Maplewood and Minneapolis, which probably has their own set of fenc- ing. Her biggest concern is with St. Paul also being a part of this, so if there was an event that did not necessarily happen in Roseville, something like Philando Cas- tille or some other horrifying event again, that Roseville would not be the highest priority. Also,if the City was part of a consortium and there was a need in St. Paul or whatever, the City of Roseville would not even have the opportunity to even be participating. Chief Brosnahan indicated this tends to be a first come, first served, as far as that process goes. The other piece of their emergency management planning process is to have a secondary or backup option. The City does have a couple of different options that could be utilized if, for some reason, the fence is either not available or there is not enough footage to protect their area. Councilmember Strahan asked staff if the City had insurance to cover damages if damages were to occur if the City decided not be a part of this. Mr. Trudgeon explained the City does have insurance but there are deductibles as well. Councilmember Strahan asked if there would be any impact to the City's insurance if the City were to participate in the consortium. Would this decrease their premi- ums for risk or does it change anything along those lines. Mr. Trudgeon indicated he was not aware of how that would affect insurance as Staff has not asked that particular question. He thought offering more protection would be more helpful but whether that leads to rate reduction,he did not know.