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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 8,2024 Page 10 prepares into 2025, staff may have some sense. Also, there is nothing to say that three months from now, if an issue pops up, something could be added to the Legislature priorities with a very specific request. Unfortunately, there is Metro Cities, the League of Minnesota Cities, that are on the front lines and leading the way so Roseville would just be along for the ride and a voice of support for those type of things. He thought this may be something staff should monitor and bring to the Council for addition to the priority list, if needed. Councilmember Strahan stated that was something she had in mind, not as a high priority, but keeping it on the radar as something that the City needed to address and keep. Councilmember Etten indicated he appreciated the items staff added and was comfortable with them. He would like the City to continue to talk about park dedication because this has been talked about since he was on the Park and Recreation Commission. If anything, now with a fully built-out City, that is even more important in some ways because there are resources to keep up things, add amenities, or adjust things. Mayor Roe noted on the final item under high priorities (Creation of alternative funding sources for Cable Commission),he was not sure if the City of Roseville is going to take a lot of lead on that necessarily so that item may be able to drop down to the lower priority list. He also suggested adding the word "sustainable" before "alternative funding" because that is really the key. For clarification on the background materials, he saw that the information received from NineNorth included the State law at the top and it had a much broader discussion about broadband franchising at the bottom. That is not necessarily part of what the Council is talking about here but nice information. He indicated on the SRO clarification, he did not know what role the City of Roseville will have in advocating for that. He wondered if the Council wanted to still keep that at the top of high priority items. Councilmember Etten argued that the SRO clarification is very important and currently the City's Chief of Police has identified this,and he trusts the City's Chief to keep the City safe and to know what is important and to be concerned about. He knew the Chief was concerned about this so he would leave it under the high priority list because of that. Councilmember Groff agreed and thought the Chief did a very good job when she does testify so he thought that was very important. Councilmember Strahan wondered in that same vein,if the Council would consider moving the ambulance service up with the City's Fire Chief at the helm because he is such a strong advocate for this.