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July 3l, 2001 To: The Roseville Ethic Commission From: Dean Maschka 1.) Were public funds used and if so, to what extent? No. Did you bill the City for your time? No 2.) Did you seek an expense reimbursement? No. 3.) Under what public authority were you acting? I was acting under the authority of a city council member. I was acting in what I felt was in the best interest of the City of Roseville. We ha�e no policy as to how we act regarding issues before the state legislature. There ha�e been other issues in which we have acted in a similar manner as they come along. Please see the facts as see out below 4.) Did you go as representative of Roseville. Yes 5.) Who accompanied you? Steve Sarkozy, Ed Burrell and Joel Jamnick. This incident arose one day when I called Mr. Sarkozy on another matter. During that conversation I asked Steve what he had been up to lately and he indicted he had spent the last two day trying to undo the actions of our Mayor at the State Legislature. He indicated he had received a telephone call from, I believe Representative IV� Elroy, inquiring as to what was the Mayor of Roseville doing down at the State Legislature. Apparently the Mayor had been at the State Legislature with a local developer trying to get some wording in a bill or lobbying for some wording in a bill, that would ha�e allowed any citizen to bring law suits, retroactively on TIF Districts agreements. Essentially it would allow anyone to go back for a ten period ten look at any TIF agreement and if they felt some thing had not been done correctly bring a lawsuit. Steve indicated that this matter was going to conference committee and that he was trying to find someone on the conference committee to meet with and explain the implication of this change. I then inquired of Steve as to who was on the committee. He went through a list of names and finally mentioned Senator John Hottinger, who happened to be the chair of the conference committee. When he said that name, I told him I was pretty certain I could get us in to see him. I called my connection to Senator Hottinger , who called John and arrangements were made to meet with Senator Hottinger. Prior to meeting with Senator Hottinger, I spoke with him by phone and explained to him Roseville's concems, regarding the retroactive provision. We knew at the time the potential exposure for the City of Roseville was in excess of several million dollars.. Later, in a discussion with the Roseville's trial lawyer he indicated, that had the language been left in the bill the potential exposure to Roseville alone would ha�e been in excess of twenty million dollars. We met with Senator Hottinger on either Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday before the conference committee meeting, which was scheduled for Saturday. Senator Hootinger had invited Senator Pappas from St. Paul to the meeting. We met with them and explained our position and the implication of what retroactivity would ha�e on Roseville and other communities throughout the state. Senator Hottinger and Pappas, immediately picked up on the problem, both agreed that they would work to get the retroactivity provision removed. It was never clear to me what our mayor was trying to accomplish, nor did I care, my major concern was to protect Roseville. I know at one time, Steve Sarkozy had a tape of Representative IV� Elroy `s telephone call, if you had that I am sure this could shed some light on exactly what the mayor was doing, but I do not know if Mr Sarkozy kept it or if he would tum it over. At the time Council persons Wiski, Mastel and I