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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,December 8, 2014 Page 9 than typically used for zoning notices. Chair Grefenberg noted that this recom- mendation had also been provided to the Council by the Community Engagement Task Force. Mr. Grefenberg advised that he presented this idea to the Planning Commission at their October 2014 meeting, and he was surprised and pleased to receive positive feedback from all Planning Commissioners and their agreement to work toward that goal. Chair Grefenberg referenced items found under zoning notification in the RCA; and sought authorization to move forward with those suggestions. Recommend an Online Civic Engagement Module for New City Website Member Becker noted the need to implement and dovetail broader themes into the structure for projects that would reap long-term benefits and drive community en- gagement. Mr. Becker advised that the CEG had been consulting with three ven- dors and hoped to make a recommendation to the City Council on a chosen ven- dor to proceed at the January 15, 2015 CEG meeting. City Council Priorities and Emerging Opportunity Chair Grefenberg used this opportunity to hear feedback from individual City Councilmembers. Councilmember Willmus thanked members for report and for serving the com- munity; and expressed his excitement and encouraged the CEG to continue work- ing on creating neighborhood associations. Councilmember Willmus opined that the CEG was the perfect conduit to help facilitate that effort. Councilmember Etten concurred with the comments of Councilmember Willmus, and also thanked the CEG for their work to-date. Councilmember Etten opined that neighborhood associations were great and helped bring people together to work together and could use some of the expertise from their group to affect deci- sions at the City Council level. Councilmember Etten referenced page 7 of the CEG report related to engaging Roseville renters and non-single family home- owners (e.g. condominiums and co-ops) and expressed his interest and the need to engage that more. As a piece of that, Councilmember Etten noted the need to ex- amine how those residents were approached and their specific situations where electronic methods may not work and how to engage them otherwise. Coun- cilmember Etten noted that each apartment building or complex and unit or renter may approach this differently, and therefore a multi-modal approach was neces- sary. Chair Grefenberg noted the intent that a joint Planning Commission and CEG ef- fort would work to get that information out for leased properties. As an example, Chair Grefenberg noted that information on or notice about the pawn shop issue currently before the City Council had not been received by residents of the adja- cent apartment building. Chair Grefenberg expressed his interest in the Planning Commission's willingness to work with the CEG on those communication efforts.