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Meeting date: July 24, 2006 p. 1 of 4 Roseville Housing and Redevelopment Authority Citizen Advisory Group on Rental Housing July 24, 2006 Meeting Notes Present : Warren Anderson, Ron Bartz, Michelle Bonine, Paul Bradley, Angie Fleming, Sue Hackett, Kevin Kelly, Jeanne Kelsey, Jim Olson, Annette Phillips, Dan Roe Staff : Cathy Bennett, HRA Executive Director ; Rick Talbot and Don Munson, Code Enforcement Facilitator : Barbara Raye, Facilitator, and Carol Sw enson, Center for Policy, Planning, and Performance Guest : Georgianne Hall, League of Women Voters; before she left midway through the meeting, Georgianne recommended that these meetings, especially any public comment sessions, need to be adequately publicized with information about time, date, and location. Welcome and Introductions Barbara Raye opened and facilitated the m eeting. Everyone took turns providing a self- introduction. Corrections to July 7, 2006 notes: 1) Paul Br adley was not in attendance. 2) Angie Fleming, not Michelle Bonine, agreed report on the Burnsville Rental Licensing Program presentation. Public Comment • No one attended the meeting to deliver public comment. Ms. Paul attended as an observer. • Cathy reported receiving one email from a re sident. This person reported observing the conversion of single-family, owner-occupied housing to rental housing in their neighborhood in recent years. The neighbor hood is experiencing increased problems with parking, overcrowding in houses, and noise. • The resident noted that her neighborhood ha s an active block club and she offered to organize a neighborhood meeting to discuss hous ing issues with the CAG if the CAG is interested. The group acknowledged the offer, but agreed that it would be more productive to participate in such a meeting after the group has a better sense of what it would like to get feedback on. Data on Housing Ownership & Rental Mix • Cathy distributed two handouts with data on th e mix of ownership and rental housing in Roseville in March 2005 and June 2006. Disc ussion about the change in mix between 2005 and 2006 was made difficult because it appear ed as though there we re changes in the classification of housing types and there was continued uncer tainty about the use of non- homestead data as surrogate data for rental property. • The group asked Cathy to verify trend data and to include data from 2003 and 2004, if possible. It was also recommended to pu ll out institutional housing from the rental