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A course was set in motion 10 years aga that has been leading ta the HRA taking the primary role in r�sidenfial property maintenance issues from the city council. History: 1990's • City staff heid informal discussions about creating an HRA but fel� that there was no city council suppar� a# the time. By 2002 • Council open to idea of creating HRA, took tour of A�stin HRA, and Austin HRA directar traveled to Rose�ille to answer staff and public's questions. • Housing �alues in Rvse�ille were n�t rising at the rate of other parts of the metropalitan area. What kept the overall a�erage up though was the continual redevelopment of cammercial ar�as. • Average age of Rose�ille housing only ir�c�easing. • Legislature cracked down or� the di�er�ing of building fee permit mor�ey for purposes other than the administration af these permits. Many housing pragrams funded with this money. • Surpluses built up ir� Cammunity Developmer�t were expected to disappear by mid 2000's. m Levy limits randomfy imp�sed by the legislature would mean that tax supported housing programs would ha�e to compete with pol�ce, fire, and parks and would ultimately lose. •�xisting programs would e�entually have to become tax supported and any expansion in pragrams would have to be tax supported Zaos s Recognition that only minimal number of property maintenance issues can be addressed based upon current Community De�elopment structure of funding off af building permit fees. • Recognition fhat the increase in foreclosures is only dri�ing up the number of critical problem praperties in the community. Tammy Pust stated that the Pro�erty Maintei�ance Code Enf�rcement department shauld be op�rating out of one �udget, either funded �rom the city or the HRA, not both. Agreed� The time has come that if the decision makers believe that w� need to do more than what is currently being done, the HRA needs to step forward to take the primary role.