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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 23, 2015 Page 9 choices for which commission they preferred to serve on, questioning the ra- tionale of her colleagues in their appointments. Councilmember Willmus opined that the skill sets of his preferred candidates qualified them from his perspective; expressing his concern in one candidate about the City's expectations versus a candidate's ability to commit to attending meetings and deliberate and discuss issues for recommendation to the City Coun- cil based on their interview comments. Based on those concerns, Councilmember Willmus stated that he supported candidates Anderson and VanDriest for the Eth- ics Commission. Councilmember Laliberte expressed her support and reservations on various can- didates on attendance as well, along with the ability to obtain a countable vote versus pushing the City Council's mission and agenda for the various commis- sions. Councilmember Etten, specific to the Human Rights Commission, noted his per- sonal preference for Christiansen based on her international experience and past leadership and Vincent for her work with immigrant communities in past volun- teer service as well as in her career. Specific to Ms. Vincent, Councilmember Et- ten spoke in support of her comments on how to involve people in civic engage- ment and voting as it correlated with the Commission's work with the citizenship process, and the life and work skills she could emphasize in the work of the Commission. Councilmember McGehee expressed her same appreciation of her potential work on the Human Rights Commission but also in general and the contributions she could make as well as to the Public Works, Environment and Transportation Commission as another woman on that board. Sine three candidates expressed multiple interests, Councilmember Laliberte con- fessed that it had created some difficulty in her decision-making, sine all of the candidates were good and the points raised by her colleagues were valid. While not wanting to push the issue, Councilmember Etten expressed his hope that if not appointed on this round, Ms. Vincent would choose to become involved in the process again in the future. Mayor Roe echoed Councilmember Etten, opining that from his point of view, Ms. Vincent's skill set made her a higher choice for the Human Rights Commis- sion, creating the dilemma for him in originally suggesting Ms. Christiansen's ap- pointment to the Community Engagement Commission. Mayor Roe also encour- aged Ms. Vincent to seek out future vacancies as well.