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Regular City Council Meeting <br /> Monday,November 27, 2023 <br /> Page 10 <br /> his question is whether there should be an option for reducing that if other <br /> organizations approach the City. <br /> Mayor Roe indicated he was looking at this in the sense that one of the objectives <br /> is to make sure the City is supporting diverse needs within the community. When <br /> doing the math, if this organization has five places and there are eight available in <br /> the City,that would be over fifty percent of the sites and could potentially get <br /> concerning. He asked how the City would address that, noting he was not sure that <br /> would be put into the Code. His would not want to take a site away from an <br /> organization once it is in use by them so he wondered if there could be some type <br /> of trigger attached. He thought the Council could have staff and the City Attorney <br /> look at that. <br /> Councilmember Strahan agreed and appreciated all of the work the organization <br /> has done. She did know that there are some different sports in the community that <br /> have indicated they would like more attention and she wondered if these other <br /> organizations knew that they would have the opportunity to do this. This is a <br /> publicly known entity so do they have to have someone who is partly paid on staff <br /> to even know that the other organization could have something. She would not <br /> want to take away a site from an organization once it is established at the site. <br /> Councilmember Schroeder wanted to make sure that the Council does not just <br /> concentrate on these numbers because she would hate to limit this because she <br /> thought this organization was doing some really good things for the community <br /> including the goods and work they are doing with DEI and spending money on <br /> financial aid. So, to say the City does not want the organization to have too many <br /> sites and now additional families and kids and there are a lot of kids that go to <br /> Roseville High School that do not live in Roseville so those kids are still in the <br /> community. She explained in her view, the more the City can help out the <br /> community and it sounds like the businesses would like to do it. She also thought <br /> this could be opened up to other organizations and the City could let them know as <br /> well. She would hate to not let this organization expand for future possibilities. <br /> Mayor Roe agreed that the Council should not just look at the numbers and <br /> scholarship recipients that may be Roseville residents, which is also off the top the <br /> head, is not the whole picture and he thought basically, as was noted, everything <br /> that this organization does has to be for hockey players in the Roseville Area School <br /> District that are not otherwise in other programs. That is sort of the community <br /> aspect and he appreciated,the notion of wanting to make sure the City is supporting <br /> other organizations. He thought the reality was that there was a resource and <br /> capability threshold for any charitable organization to get involved in the support <br /> through charitable gambling. Not every organization can do it and then certainly <br /> there has to be a willing participant on the premises side as well. This is probably <br />