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DRAFT Special City Council Work Plan Meeting 1 Monday, February 7,2011 Page 5 the shortfalls in the CIP, was only the messenger, and that the City Council, work- ing with staff, needed to find some middle ground where everyone could be com- fortable but be willing to make some difficult decisions. Councilmember Johnson expressed his positive experiences and better under- standing of various issues based on his involvement with the Parks Master Plan Process and the Fire Building Committee; and spoke in strong support of both of their processes and community involvement. Councilmember Johnson noted the history of how business was done in the past and changes moving forward for the community and for planning purposes. Discussion on the existing gambling ordinance and proposed and/or necessary re- visions ensued, with Councilmember Johnson strongly supporting allowing Rose- ville charitable gambling organizations to operate in more than one Roseville es- tablishment before considering allowing outside organizations to operate within the City. Councilmember Johnson reviewed past benefits these organizations have brought to the City's parks and recreation operations, and the School Dis- tricts; and the difficulties they were currently experiencing; and advocated that the City Council do a better job of supporting those organizations in the community. Mayor Roe suggested a review of the benefits available from outside organiza- tions during the review process as well to consider their value to the community and potential impacts to local organizations. Councilmember Johnson suggested priority development of a task force in the near future talking to principals of local organizations, and offer the City Coun- cil's support of them first and foremost, noting recent technological innovations for automated pull tab and bingo operations. Councilmember Johnson noted that as President of the Roseville Community Foundation, Councilmember Pust would have valuable input from that perspective as well as that of a Council- member in revising existing ordinance language; and offered his services to work with Finance Director Miller as well. Mayor Roe noted that staff had previously been given direction to review the ex- isting ordinance and bring forth recommendations. Councilmember Johnson clarified his last initiative was to evaluate the City's multi-family residential codes to ensure additional enforcement provisions were available to ensure the health of the community while recognizing the many sensi- tive issues involved. Discussion included recent nuisance property and problem property code imple- mentation; staff resources required for enforcement and inspections beyond basic fire code inspections of common areas; and the need for further consideration of registration and licensing of multi-family residential facilities.