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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 25, 2014 Page 13 with Youth Commissioner Dao on how to present the program and determine oth- er potential partners. Mayor Roe suggested area schools would be good partners since this topic had come up a couple of years ago when the City Council had met jointly with the School Board. Chair Groff spoke to Work Item #4 and how the essay contest could be reformu- lated in the next meeting; recognizing the work of Commissioner Bachhuber in preparing questions to submit to the Minnesota Human Rights League for approv- al. As part of the annual essay contest, Commissioner Bachhuber noted the inter- est in also recognizing community members who have done well for Roseville through their human rights efforts, and include them in some type of awards cer- emony on an annual basis; with Commissioners Slade and Singleton researching that with her. Chair Groff advised that Commissioner Slade was researching Work Item #6 ex- ploring further community dialogues and appropriate topics. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Chair Groff reported on the delay in and building upon follow-up opportunities from the immigration experience fo- rum. Related to the immigrant experience, Vice Chair Becker noted that the facilitator for the Roseville forum, working with Kids for Human Rights, produced a long report on the experience in MN and was available on the HRC and Community Engagement Commission websites if the City Council was interested. Mayor Roe asked that Chair Becker forward that to City Manager Trudgeon for dissemination to Councilmembers. At the request of Councilmember Willmus, Chair Groff noted the difficulty in getting essay contest participants from schools unless a specific teacher could be found to lead the charge; and sated that the HRC was open to any and all sugges- tions to get more participation from other schools. Commissioner Bachhuber stated that the HRC attempted to solicit input from Ro- seville Area Middle School (RAMS) teachers, and wanted to do so at other schools as well, to encourage participation by developing good questions. Rec- ognizing that the annual contest could be broader and better and achieve a strong- er interest, Commissioner Bachhuber stated that one consideration that the HRC was reviewing was what the annual contest should look like, and whether it need- ed to be an essay contest, or could be an art project or some other way to show- case that interest.