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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 7,2023 Page 8 of that back. He also noted that under the State law the City can have a cap not lower than a level that is based on the City's population. But the City does not need to have a cap, it can allow as many as the City wants but that is up to the Council to decide what they are comfortable with. Mayor Roe explained the way the State law is written, as he understands it, it says you cannot set a cap lower than the number per population unless there is a County- wide limit and that it is already at the limit. Councilmember Schroeder would like to wait until the City sees more of that information from the State or other cities. Councilmember Groff indicated the City did not want to be the municipality in the County that ends up with all of these types of businesses. Mayor Roe indicated he was leaning towards option two as well and then in terms of the restricted entry to people over 21, he thought that language was pretty good. The Council agreed. Mr. Trudgeon indicated staff will put the information in an Ordinance form and bring it back to the Council for further discussion. d. Consider Adoption of an Ordinance to Amend Chapter 10 to Allow Display of Political Signs Prior to In-Person Voting City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated August 7, 2023. Councilmember Schroeder thought this was pretty straightforward since the State of Minnesota changed this and the City would be in lockstep with that. Also, everything the City Manager talked about made sense and this is a very straightforward fix. She thought this was something the City needed to do. Mayor Roe indicated the one thing he was a little curious about,just because this topic has come up, is why the City of Roseville treats general elections in the State general election even year differently in time frame than elections in the odd year. He asked why do candidates who happen to be up for election or ballot questions in those even years get an extra twenty-five days to have their signs up? He was not sure if there was something in State law that precludes cities from making it any shorter than forty-six days or from that point of view, does the City want to change it to be consistent for all elections? He stated since the Council is talking about this, he wanted to put the question out there and see if there is a reason the City has to treat the two types of elections differently, which seems unlikely. He asked does the City want to treat them differently, just from their own policy perspective?