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29 Council member Jason Etten: Agreed with previous comment. He said Item A{Staff RCA 30 to the Council} was important to him [Item A: Review and recommend opportunities to 31 collaborate with neighborhood, community, educational, business, and social services group 32 and organizations]. He commented that improving the City's open dialogue with these groups 33 on how the city could benefit them and they the city, and how we might find volunteers for 34 them, thus nurturing that relationship. As an example of that he mentioned the Northeast 35 Youth and Family Services. 36 Etten also noted his interest in Item D[Review and recommend ways to improve the City's 37 communication efforts, both printed and electronic, to facilitate effective two-way 38 communication between the City and its residents, businesses, community and neighborhood 39 organizations including making information available in multiple languages.] 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 We have some people who e-mail the Council once a week, but the vast majority don't almost ever contact the Council; we don't have a regular dialogue with the average person, unless we are 'burning fires in their backyards. He would like the Commission to explore other tools for the community to regularly communicate with the Council, in order to create a back-and-forth positive dialogue. He included the business community in this, he added. Council member McGehee: I see you as a policy group, not as an implementation group. Helping to organize and point out ways to engage our community. She did not see the Commission as necessarily implementing projects, but as reviewing and recommending strategies to engage our community. She added she would like the group to move beyond the Civic Engagement Task Force Report, and not to push forward that document, but to move beyond that report and work on other policy issues. [Commissioner Theresa Gardella arrives.] R02: Looks at the Commission as stewards of the Task Force Report's recommendations. He did not see the Commission setting aside that report and moving on to other things. In addition to that report there may be other things we do. The recommendations are valid and important things for the City government to focus on. Your group is the steward to make sure those recommendations see fruition, as in all likelihood they will require council action. Referred to Item F[Advise the City Council on the community's visioning process] under the Commission's Duties and Functions—a function he had added to the Ordinance. I don't think 60 you need to initiate a visioning process or update in month one or year one. He also referred to 61 the Council's Aspirations which was an attempt to summarize the major themes of Imagine 62 Roseville 2025. He would like the Commission to look at that 2025 vision and figure out ways 63 that these aspirations and Imagine 2025's Vision inform all the Council's decision-making and 64 are in the forefront of the Council's communications with the community. He indicated that Summary of Commission Joint Meeting with the Roseville City Council pg. 2