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City of Roseville - Housing & Redevelopment Authority Meeting Minutes for May 17, 2005Page 2 of 5 the contract with the City of Roseville for RHRA activities and accept 1st quarter staff and HRC report. Member Hermes asked Chair Majerus at what point/when a new RHRA will be appointed (Mayor appoints and it will be discussed at the June 2005 meeting). Ayes: 6 Nays: 0 Motion carried Action Items: 7. a) Report on Neighborhood Meetings and Review Next Steps (HF25). RHRA Executive Director Cathy Bennett provided a summary of the neighborhood meeting process. In October 2004, the RHRA developed a process to evaluate a Neighborhood Enhancement Program. Beginning in November 2004 the RHRA conducted an educational process to learn about the issues as well as programs that other communities have implemented to address housing and neighborhood concerns. In February 2005, the RHRA approved a series of neighborhood and business meetings to review and discuss neighborhood housing issues throughout the community. Over 160 people attended. As part of the Neighborhood meeting process, the RHRA hired Barbara Raye and Carol Swenson of the Center for Policy, Planning and Performance (CPPP) to facilitate and then summarize the findings from each meeting. The process included five neighborhood meetings and four business meetings (commission chairs, local realtors, multi-family owners and representatives and a joint school officials and realtors meeting) held in March, April and May. Barbara and Carol provided the RHRA with a summary of these community conversations, the general themes, the most compelling resident views and their findings on housing issues. The RHRA received a copy of the summary report. Barbara recommended sharing the draft report, creating more dialogue on programs and policies and increase the promotion of existing programs. She also recommended enhanced Code efforts, weighing the cost and equity of new initiations, and to build upon the leadership of the RHRA and its community input process. Member Kelsey asked how the City can improve communications with the schools. Roseville schools asked for help. Member Hermes thanked residents and school representatives, RHRA, and all others who attended. Chair Majerus suggested next steps to include meeting with the Chairs group, providing the report to the City Council and the community including the distribution specifically to those that participated. Member Kelsey recalled that the RHRA hosted a “Housing Summit” in 2004. Chair Majerus suggested that after bringing the info to the Chairs and the City Council that a “Housing Summit 2005” be held. Member Bean suggested increasing code enforcement explanation in the “Wrap”. The Codes need better explanation to the public. Member Kelsey expressed concern with the Wrap items as they are not specifically focused on codes and housing and may be overlooked. She wondered if the RHRA could do target marketing to provide better communications to realtors regarding rehab of the housing stock and neighborhoods with spring events such as Shoreview’s “Shine” program. Member Hermes asked if RHRA could host a code enforcement week and use the City bulletin boards for events. Executive Director Bennett suggested developing an action step to create targeted marketing. She suggested action steps oriented to budgets in the next few months. Member Millasovich reminded that Roseville is a senior community where seniors would be the audience and that the web is not always the best source of marketing for that target market. She suggested using the Roseville Review and the Roseville Cable Channel. Barbara Raye suggested using the information already gathered as the justification for programs moving forward. The RHRA could follow up with attendees at the community block clubs as focus groups. The citizens can be engaged to ask for solutions (empowerment) from participants in the community meetings. Education provides information and creates visibility for the RHRA. Member Hermes, Member Kelsey and Chair Majreus will work with the Finance subcommittee to create a budget impacts based upon action steps suggested. Chair Majerus will coordinate across all commissions and put the benefits back in the hands of the citizens. http://archive.ci.roseville.mn.us/council/hra/minutes/2005/hram050215.htm3/12/2008