150212_CE_Packet - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

Community Engagement Commission Minutes January 15, 2015 – Draft Minutes Page 8 of 18 Commissioner Ramundt stated she believed there would be some reference to language because 317 the last task force she was on was supposed to be six months and went 18 months. She believed 318 some expectation as to duration was needed. She stated if the task force wanted to set something 319 other than the recommendation they could do that once it was up and running, but at least there 320 would be an expectation set. 321 322 Commissioner Gardella suggested adding the word approximately because sometimes things go 323 longer than anticipated or it could go faster. 324 325 Chair Grefenberg stated said the Commission would hopefully look at the next meeting the 326 volunteers and appoint them to the task force. He stated he was at a disadvantage because he sent 327 everyone a copy but he did not have a copy. He stated they could also name it the Neighborhood 328 Association Task Force to give it a little leeway to discuss other issues. He recommended saying 329 describing the task force would be as having a 3 to 4 month task force duration. 330 331 Commissioner Gardella stated she was in favor of leaving neighborhood in the name, as there 332 were different ways to address this. 333 334 Vice Chair Becker stated suggested it should be up to a neighborhood to decide how it wanted to 335 formalize their neighborhood organization. 336 337 Commissioner Ramundt stated commented that the topic of neighborhood associations could 338 consume 3 to 4 months alone; and this was her concern. She stated Maybe this was an initial 339 task force around neighborhood associations and then there was could be a subsequent task force 340 around something else at a later date. She stated maybe the neighborhood association task force 341 could come up with the next task force, but in order to keep it short and accomplish something 342 they needed a focus. 343 344 Commissioner Mueller stated she thought it would be a neighborhood association task force 345 when they initially discussed this. She stated agreed with Commissioner Ramundt because she 346 felt there was a lot of energy now on around the neighborhood association issue; and she felt it 347 needed a lot of Commission attention to get things established for other groups who were might 348 be interested in this, but if they tied in issues such as neighborhood empowerment etc this would 349 be too much to where they would the effort could lose momentum and it would become more 350 than they were intending right now. 351 352 Chair Grefenberg said he heard what she Mueller was saying, but he was trying to give add some 353 flexibility to the task force’s charge so as to incorporate what Commissioners Becker and 354 Gardella had said. 355 356 Commissioner Gardella stated indicated she was comfortable incorporating what Commissioner 357 Ramundt’s said concerns because in the Task Force’s conversations she believed he would see it 358 would become apparent that not everyone wanted to form associations, and there might be other 359 ways. She was concerned about 3 to 4 months which was 6 hours to do the work. She believed 360