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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 22, 2024 Page 9 Mayor Roe concurred with most of what was said by the Council. He liked the educational part of this and is also interested in talking about how the City looks at projects that the City helps to fund. Councilmember Strahan wondered if the City needed to formalize a declaration of support of smoke free housing by putting the educational materials on the City website. She asked if the City should take a more formal approach and state the City does support smoke free housing. She did not think it was at the cost of non- smoke free housing,but she wondered if the Council is saying the City supports it if the City is doing educational programming. She also wondered if the Council takes a bolder stand by stating the City does support it and here are the resources because of that. Mayor Roe indicated it is something to think about. He was not always sure that the City's declaration of things has as much impact that the Council thinks it does but at the same time, one aspect to look at is if this is something the City wants to advocate for as a change to State law in our next discussion of legislative priorities. Mayor Roe thanked Ms. Engman for the presentation. Recess Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 7:57 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 8:04 p.m. d. Discuss Kids in Need Foundation State Bonding Request City Manager Patrick Trudgeon briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated April 22, 2024. Mayor Roe indicated as Mr. Trudgeon talked about ownership interest, and he wondered if it was a partial ownership interest on the part of the City or would the City own the building outright as a result of this. Mr.Trudgeon indicated the simplest way,probably,is to own the building outright. Mayor Roe asked City Attorney Tierney if the City would own the building. City Attorney Tierney explained in situations like this, what commonly happens is that the non-profit would acquire the property and then lease the property to the City who would lease it back to the non-profit. The document structure is that the City would enter into a grant agreement with the State to receive the funds. The funds would then be used to purchase the property on behalf of the non-profit who would lease it to the City who would lease it back to the non-profit and as a part of that transaction the City would enter into a use agreement with the non-profit as well to conduct the program, the project, and that has to be what the State Legislation says it is. In this case, it is operating a non-profit that provides school