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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 22,2024 Page 6 Mayor Roe thanked Mr. Elvin for the presentation and answering questions. c. Discuss Smoke-Free Multi-Family Housing Strategies City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request For Council Action and related attachments dated April 22, 2024. Ms. Katie Engman introduced Ms. Kara Skahen from ASNR-M, who provided a presentation to the City Council. Mayor Roe thanked Ms. Skahen for the presentation. Councilmember Etten indicated the City has a resident that has been quite vocal about concerns with buying into a community that indicated it was smoke free but is not and some of these steps run into the same issue such as a grandfather policy or a blind eye attitude. He wondered if there are any points from things learned from other places on how to handle these kinds of issues. Ms. Skahen explained her association has a toolkit on compliance and enforcement for properties that can be provided free of charge and technical support. That being said, they encourage properties to have everything written. Everything should be documented. The association does not recommend permanently exempting any smokers in a building and does not consider that to be a smoke free property. If there are fixed term leases, and a lease cannot be broken mid-lease, if someone refuses to sign onto a smoke free policy before their lease is up her association makes it very clear to managers that they need to notify all new residents moving into the property what the smoking policy is for the property and that the property is transitioning to be smoke free and may still smell smoke until a certain date,until the person who most recently signed a lease has signed the smoke free policy. She would say part of that issue tends to be confusion from multiple parties in terms of what policy details are, what that timeline is, what the transition is. There are a number of different resources that could be provided for that situation. Councilmember Etten explained this particular case is a condominium community and the residents are the owners. The issue is the board is choosing to not enforce their own rules. He wondered how these things help or don't help with that. He thought the City needed help with how these things would interact with enforcement. Ms. Skahen thought that was the appeal of having a city-based policy. It levels the playing field and the same rules for everybody. Councilmember Groff thought perhaps the educational portion of this may be helpful and a step toward smoke-free housing.