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Roseville. In addition Ms. Mahmud does assist any single family, multi- family, or commercial properties in Roseville with recommendation on exterior and interior improvements (landscaping, lighting, placement of community gathering places, safety enhancements) that can be done in order to reduce crime. RHRA priority has been on incorporating green construction into RHRA programs. Consideration should be given to require rental properties to have an energy audit done in order to have the property owner understand the operating deficiencies of the building and then address just one or a majority of the deficiencies in the rehabilitation. All of the requirements above would allow the RHRA program to parallel financing programs from other resources for larger buildings or properties that would need additional resources for completing the rehabilitation. See summary of Housing Programming Grid. Have a maximum loan amount per building in order to see what the demand would be for the programming. Some suggested amounts would be a maximum of $10,000 a unit not to exceed $100,000 per building, at a 4% interest rate for 10-15 years. The interest rate would be similar to our single family Home Improvement Loan Program. 3.2.5 Staff is recommending the following modification of the budget from $169,250 to $216,250. The additional amount that is being added to the budget is from program income from one of the homes selling at Applewood Point earlier this year. In addition $100,000 of the 2008 budget was ear marked for Har Mar apartments. 3.3 Neighborhood Enhancement Program 3.3.1 There has been some confusion on what the role of the RHRA will have in regards to code enforcement. Staff has reviewed the minutes of previous meetings as well budget and strategic plan documents to ascertain the final disposition of the use of RHRA funds for code enforcement. The aforementioned documents discussed the use of RHRA funds for loan programs, to help the city with property abatements, promotion and creation of pro-active code enforcement activities and even assisting the city in funding seasonal staff. 3.3.2 City Council has requested that RHRA assist in funding code enforcement violators through the abatement process. Additionally the RHRA was requested to fund the seasonal staff position that will be proactively inspecting properties similar to the Shoreview SHINE program. The budget was for $120,000 total in 2008. The following modifications are being requested based upon having full identification of the use of those funds. Seasonal position is $12,000, community outreach/marketing is $3,000 and the remaining $105,000 be set aside for the abatement payments. RHRA Program Evaluation (OS-20-08) -Page 4 of 5