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Community Engagement Commission Minutes January 15, 2015 – Draft Minutes Page 10 of 18 governments’ help in the formation and sustaining of neighborhood associations. He asked if 405 they had any feedback and invited discussion. 406 407 Ms. McCormick stated said she liked Commissioner Ramundt’s distinction and she agreed with 408 the concept. She liked the idea of having it focused on neighborhood associations yet 409 encompassing other items. 410 411 Ms. Hilden stated added she believed this the task force was a good thing. She stated 412 commented the City had not promoted neighborhood associations in the past and although she 413 had offered her services on many occasions to give guidance and discuss neighborhood 414 associations. She stated she had been Based upon her experience as a community organizer in 415 St. Paul with very different rules and regulations she had a was also concerned in terms of cities 416 intervening too much in this because one of the things that she had learned over the years was 417 that if they formalize things too much it did not work. She stated it was important to have fun. 418 She stated concluded that she did not want the City to direct neighborhood associations too 419 much. 420 421 Chair Grefenberg stated suggested many of these issues could be discussed in the task force itself 422 who which would make recommendations to the committee Commission and to the Council. 423 424 Commissioner Ramundt stated based on this and her experience, the task force could decide how 425 formal they want to be. Chair Grefenberg stated added that the task force wouldn’t be regulated 426 by the Open Meeting Law so it could make decisions via e-mail or phone. That allowed the task 427 force so in that sense it to not need not to have a lot of formal meetings. 428 429 Ms. Hilden stated they had actually gotten the association listed as a non-profit and it was listed 430 with the city in their brochure, but commented to having the City have requiring too much 431 structure in an association was her concern. 432 433 Chair Grefenberg stated suggested the Commission he wanted to move onto the current issue 434 motion before it them, including the Neighborhood Association Task Force description intended 435 for potential volunteers. 436 437 Commissioner Ramundt stated Ms. Hilden made a good point; she herself because she did not 438 want the task force to be directly involved in the neighborhood association, but this would be 439 how the City could interface with a neighborhood association and how the City could support a 440 neighborhood association. 441 442 Ms. Hilden state she believed that would be excellent. 443 444 Chair Grefenberg drew the Commissioners attention to stated one of the issues was the current 445 language in the Volunteer Appeal’s first paragraph, which would could be revised to refer to a 3 446 to 4 months task force life span. [A copy of this entire handout is attached to these minutes and 447 herein made part of the record.] He noted in part this was based on a prior conversation he had 448 with Ms. McCormick wherein she did not want people potential volunteers to think that they 449