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5 John Kysylyczyn, 3083 Victoria Street. Served as fo rmer mayor and sat in council chambers for over 9 years and have worked on these issues for many years. He has lived in Roseville for 20 years. Paid close attention to the issues. The issue he would like to address is in CAG reco mmendation 2 regarding the revision to the court citation process. He noted that th ere is no abuse in the process because it has to go to the council currently. This is the safeguard needed for the process. He feels that the CAG was not informed on the issues. He does not feel that the HRA should be concerned with what other cities are doing and how do they address this issue. He does not want to be like other cities which have problems with how they use the process. He feels that if the HRA supports CAG recommendation 2 they would be supporting reversal of one of the most successful polici es that has been adopted since he was Mayor. The staff has supported this process and has heard no report that the previous process would resolve issues quicker or that the previous process would worked be tter. Mr. Kysylyczyn showed a chart regarding how the process worked pre 1998 to th e present. Discussed previous cases where court citations were issued and how the problems were not resolved but by emin ent domain, mediation and abatement were used. These processes currently are allowed and would not ch ange by tightening up the court citation process. In addition there is no process to determine whic h method staff should use with regarding home maintenance issues. There is no specific standard th at staff members have been given regarding their authority to issue tickets. In addition, the council doe s not have oversight of staff members with a city manager form of government. Need to look at the f acts. The best approach that works is the current process. Proposed deletion of 1.3.a, 3.a. of the st aff report and CAG recommendation 2 with replacement language that was handed out. A unified policy of acti on rather than dumping it on the court is what he proposes. Believe this is what the HRA should be re questing and it is within their authority to put together this much broader policy issue. Lillian Chiarella, 1708 Millwood has lived in Roseville fo r 50 years. Roseville has been a successful city in spite of its politics. She urged the HRA not to wait two years to really address the problem. The problem is the college. Allowing bad practices to c ontinue and the HRA should get procedures in affect that work. She feels there is too much latitude with regards to bending the ru les. She asked how many people can live in a single family home that are not related. She supports a rental license program. Business can absorb a $25 fee and should not object. It provides protection to those that rent property and to the city. Council member Tom Kough spoke but noted that he was not taking a position for or against the CAG recommendations. He wishes the HRA would look at taking care of all of the units not just smaller units. Why is this group not looking at a larger issue? The parking problem is related to college homes. He is waiting for a recommendation but would encourage the HRA to look at all units not just the smaller units. In addition would like to see a grandfather clause that if the property is inspected and it was approved, that property would not have another inspection unless there was a complaint. He noted that the City does not have the staff to do inspections. Annette Phillips, 3084 Shorewood Lane. She is a memb er of CAG. The city does not have sufficient data to identify rental property. Other communiti es have strict license agreements and the rental registration program is a minimal program to correctly collect the data so that the problem can be sufficiently addressed. Education is a good component of the CAG recommendations which addresses owners and renters collectively. The CAG did consid er rental property as a business and they should be held to higher standards. Jim Olson – 2930 Labore Road, Little Ca nada. He is a member of the CAG as a non-resident landlord. A year ago the council had an ordinance to regulate prop erty very heavily. He objected to that as many landlords did. The committee sat for 6 meetings, 2 hours per night with significant input from all stakeholders. Just asking to register your property and giving the staff tools to go after the problem