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Roseville City Council Page 5 of 6 two different citizen bodies, the potential for delay and confusion in addressing that issue may increase. (And environmental issues within a development or land use approval context present special time challenges. As you know, state law requires land use approvals to occur within 60 days of the request, unless a special extension of time is granted. Thus, if you were to create an Envi- ronmental Advisory Task Force and they wanted to consider an environmental issue that arose in a land use case, then, in addition to proceedings before the Planning Commission and City Council, we would also have to try to accommodate another review by the Environmental Task Force — all within 60 days. That is a challenge.) B. Some Options RE: EnvironmentalAdvisory Task Force 1. Do not create a new body, but instead have staff coordinatepreparation of an annual or more periodic report to the City Council about environmental activities and issues within the City; 2. Do not create a new body, but instead modify the charge of an existing citizen commission or commissions to include additional environmental responsibilities;perhaps reorganize and re- name the Public Warks and Transportation commission to address all environmental issues. 3. Create an ad hoc environmental advisory task force that meets once or twice a year for the limited purpose of identifying environmental issues they feel are not being satisfactorily ad- dressed by the City; then the Council could assign those issues to one or more of the existing standing citizen commissions for investigationand for sending a recommendation back to the Council. IV. Business Advisory Commission Mayor Klausing suggests you discuss creating a Business Advisory Commission as a way for businesspeoplewho may not live in Roseville to provide input into City decisions. This Com- mission would likely meet on a quarterly basis and would work on such issues as advising about the Comprehensive Plan and business regulations. The Commission would not be involved in code changes or approvals. A. Background: City staff developed a Business Retention and Redevelopment Program in 1996-97. Its goal is to support and expand the manufacturing and high technology sectors to en- sure the City vision for a consistently diverse business base and quality employment and to pro- vide business retention and development strategies that focus on these sectors. To achieve this goal the City developed the Business Link program. This includes: • Business Link emailed newsletter - Sent 3-4 times per year and posted on the web. � Business Link luncheons and/or breakfast meetings on topics of interest - In the past we have had only a handful of participants. • Business Visits - A few years ago the City was proactive in visiting business sectors, vis- iting 30 companies in a year.