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Roseville Neighborhood & Community Engagement Task Force <br />Final Recommendations <br />Our Process <br />The Human Rights Commission intended to form a task force with a diversity of perspectives <br />reflecting our community (age, gender, and ethnicity). In the end, approximately half of the Task <br />Force members were appointed City Commissioners and half were at-large members. We met <br />monthly for well over a year, with subcommittees meeting in between to study specific issues <br />and questions. We held one city-wide community forum entitled "Neighbor-to-Neighbor" (see <br />Addendum), and one meeting with the City Manager and a Planning Department staff inember <br />who subsequently attended another Task Force session and provided commentary and <br />suggestions. The meeting notes developed by the Forum's small groups are incorporated into the <br />Addendum. <br />Our Community <br />• Almost one third of our residents rent their homes. <br />9,211 rent and 23,023 own <br />• We have more citizens over 65 than under 18. <br />18.6% aged 17 and under and 20.1% aged 65 and over <br />• We are ethnically diverse. <br />19.7% non-white and 81.3% white <br />Our Opportunity <br />Roseville's most important resource is its people - diverse and highly educated, concerned about <br />their neighbors and willing to be involved in their community. Roseville also has a high <br />proportion of talented retirees who now have the time and energy to contribute to their <br />community, and a desire to be useful to future generations. As government gets increasingly <br />camplex, costly, and at times combative, Roseville has a unique opportunity to enlist this energy <br />and benefit from this experience by providing opportunities for effective and meaningful <br />engagement in response to these challenges, thus developing common ground and shared <br />responsibility for a civil society. <br />C� <br />