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Community Engagement Commission Minutes January 15, 2015 – Draft Minutes Page 11 of 18 were going to have to redo everything. He stated there had been some discussion here tonight to 450 increase this revise the task force’s duration, but the intent was only to let the potential task force 451 volunteers know of a probable end date and duration. 452 453 Ms. McCormick stated commented she believed the task force could get their work 454 accomplished in 3 to 4 months and that she would be interested in being on the task force. 455 456 Ms. McCormick stated she formed the association this past summer and she had then met Chair 457 Grefenberg when she was looked to see if the city had any materials thing or website information 458 on neighborhood associations. She could not find anything except a web reference to this the 459 Commission. She then met with Chair Grefenberg and began to as a part of her research with 460 reviewing she had looked at the first ring suburbs. She thus and had a sense of everything 461 available and she thus believed the task force could be expedited as she would be was willing to 462 share her research. 463 464 In an effort to achieve closure, Chair Grefenberg recommended summarized the following what 465 he believed was a consensus in the making, namely: Delete neighborhood and, have the name of 466 the task force be Neighborhood Association Task Force. Add up to approximately a 4 month 467 task force focused on Neighborhood Associations. Add neighborhood association and 468 communication? 469 470 Commissioner Ramundt suggested Chair Grefenberg work with Commissioner Gardella to 471 reword this paragraph, She stated suggesting it was difficult in a meeting format to wordsmith 472 and get it right. Chair Grefenberg asked if Commissioner Gardella would work with him on this. 473 Commissioner Gardella stated she would be happy to. 474 475 Chair Grefenberg stated asked once they had the language down then they whether he had the 476 authority to submit it to the City’s Volunteer Coordinator. There was no objection to proceeding 477 in this manner. 478 479 Ms. Hilden asked how many people would be on the task force. Chair Grefenberg responded it 480 was his experience that you ask for volunteers and then decide. 481 482 Vice Chair Becker stated responded the Commission would get a list of volunteers and the 483 commissions would discuss who to appoint. 484 485 Ms. Hilden stated at this point they already had three volunteers. Chair Grefenberg responded 486 that was correct. He stated once the Volunteer Appeal wording was done finalized, requests for 487 additional volunteers would go out. 488 489 Chair Grefenberg reminded the Commission that a motion had been made by Gardella (see lines 490 300-301) that they work on this proceed as outlined by this tonight’s discussion and that the 491 Commission approve the establishment of a Neighborhood Association Task Force. 492 493 Vice Chair Becker seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. 494