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Community Engagement Commission Minutes January 15, 2015 – Draft Minutes Page 4 of 18 departments or what they do and their functions. and knowing Having that information that 136 might help them participants better choose the detailed sessions in which they are were most 137 interested in. He stated, for example, if they had a budget process discussion in November they 138 would get a very different tone and interest level than if that discussion was held at another time 139 during the year. 140 141 He stated Becker continued they might want to balance the timing and topic they want with 142 whether it should be a town hall meeting or educational format. In addition, some topics might 143 be an opportunity for someone to speak out about their particular issue to the detriment of other 144 attendees who are there to learn about the topic in general. Becker reiterated he was not offering 145 this feedback in order to limit citizen input, but rather to point out that such courses should be 146 carefully designed and timed to maximize the appeal for all attendees. 147 148 Commissioner Theresa Gardella asked if there was a piece of the meetings that would discuss 149 “who is Roseville” and give a general history of the city. City Manager Trudgeon stated this 150 could be a part of it and they could make this as a pre-requisite before taking the other sessions. 151 152 Commissioner Michelle Manke stated they could also have suggested a session with the 153 Roseville Historical Society to talk about the various houses of historical value in the city. She 154 stated maybe those people would be willing to open up their homes for this also. 155 156 Commissioner Ramundt stated volunteered she thinks it would be interesting to also include 157 commissioners in on the meetings Roseville U program, so it showed they had a voice in the city 158 also. She also recommended the sessions be held at different locations also so they could get 159 into the community throughout Roseville. She recommended they holding these sessions at 160 different times also (evening, afternoon, morning, weekends) during the day. 161 162 Chair Grefenberg recommended they have a Roseville U session on community engagement and 163 the role of commissions since they Commissions were considered a part of the government. He 164 agreed with Commissioner Ramundt that the City commissions should be included. He stated 165 said such a program could make many more people did not know what the aware of the current 166 opportunities were currently to participate in the city affairs. 167 168 Commissioner Desiree Mueller responded that she stated liked favored the idea of spreading 169 scheduling this out Roseville U programs throughout the year. 170 171 City Manager Trudgeon stated if they had any future topics or suggestions to let him know. 172 173 Commissioner Desiree Mueller asked if they needed to look at this in more detail. Chair 174 Grefenberg stated they could discuss this further at a next month’s future meeting if they so 175 wished. 176 177 Staff Liaison Bowman asked the commissioners to go out and get feedback from the community. 178 He believed this would also be very helpful. 179 180