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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,July 18, 2011 Page 8 Vice Chair Grefenberg advised that the HRC was no longer pursuing other sources for additional funds for their efforts. Vice Chair Grefenberg advised that the HRC had scheduled a public hearing on September 14, 2011, in the Rose Room at the Skating Center, for neighbors to ad- vise them of their opinion of civic engagement. Mr. Grefenberg suggested it may be informative for the City Council to attend; and that there had been some dis- cussion of Mayor Roe moderating that event. Members Thao and Brisbois clarified that the HRC was not intending to drop its mediation service discussion; however, it was postponing those discussions until next year. At the request of Vice Chair Grefenberg, Member Barrett advised that, in his role as youth liaison between high school youth and the HRC, his project over the last few months had been to organize a way for different social justice, cultural and ethnic groups to connect with the HRC. While not coming into effect until May of 2011, Member Barrett expressed his hope that future youth commissioners would continue to pursue that effort and continue to collaborate with the HRC. Member Barrett noted that, while the Roseville HRC's youth commissioners had no vote, there were some commissions that provided youth members as voting members. Member Barrett advised that this opportunity had served as a good ex- perience for him in city government. Related to future mediation service efforts of the HRC, Councilmember Willmus expressed concern in potential duplication of duties; and concerns with costs to the City when it is already done at a state level; and questioned if a local program would be more effective than that provided at a state level. Councilmember Willmus expressed his interest in seeing the HRC approach and be more involved with diverse ethnic and cultural communities in Roseville to get those groups more engaged in the community, and suggested the HRC use the work done to-date by Independent School District 623 as a resource, or as a po- tential partner for those groups. Related to mediation and the HRC's reassessment of such an initiative, Vice Chair Grefenberg advised that the HRC would not offer a blanket recommenda- tion to the City Council, but would provide rationale and firm structure for mov- ing forward with it. Member Brisbois advised that it was Chair Singleton's main priority to pursue mediation; however, she noted her discussions with Chair Singleton of major hur- dles, primarily citizens giving up their state rights to the City. Member Brisbois noted that the City of Bloomington had their own in-house legal counsel; but that it would be a huge expense to the City of Roseville to pursue the initiative. While