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would not come until the HRA staff along with the Development Review Committee has signed off on the proposed improvements and a building permit has been issued. In addition since we would reduce the amount of cost reimbursed this would allow the HRA to sponsor more redesign proj ects in a year. 3.2.3 Consideration should be given to the eligibility criteria to keep the income limitation of 120% of current median income in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area and allow for families to deduct $2,500 from their annual gross income for each child in the home. The program should also eliminate the requirement that the home must be below the current median value home in Ramsey County since property values are decreasing at this time but with keeping that the home must be more than 25 years of age or older. With making some of these changes to the above criteria it would be consistent with other programs that the HRA has. Other current eligibility criteria could also remain the same so that we continue to gather the information in the application process to understand who is really using the program. 3.3 Before staff moves forward with developing the RFP to hire a consultant in 2008 they would like to request time to have discussions with other communities that may be interested in collaborating with the RHRA similar to what has been done with the Rambler remodeling plan book and Split Level home remodeling plan book In addition staff has given a copy of each of those books to RHRA for there information as to what has been developed in the past and how applicable these books still are and used. The Rambler Redesign book has been very popular in the past to the point that the City of Roseville is completely out of those books. 3.4 It is of the opinion of staff that we do not have to pay for speakers that can address green design, energy efficiency or other housing topics that are needed to address current housing conditions or market trends. There are many organizations that can provide community education that would benefit the residents of Roseville. Staff will spend time investigating presentation topics and having speakers at HRA meetings. 4.0 Staff Recommendation 4.1 Staff recommends the following: 4.2 Adopt the revised Roseville Housing Redesign Program with the modifications noted above so that implementation and marketing can proceed through the rest of 2008 to encourage reinvestment in existing Roseville Properties. Marketing will be done along with the Roseville Home Improvement Loan Program. 4.3 Staff will have discussions with other participating communities regarding collaboration to see what interests they would have to create updated plan books that would address green design and energy efficiency. In addition staff will investigate the costs for RHRA Program Evaluation (04-15-08) -Page 3 of 4