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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 22,2015 Page 19 Councilmember McGehee suggested a project template going forward, with min- imal tweaking and similar to the Dale Street process, that would go a long way toward civic engagement and organizational effectiveness. While understanding the need to do so as part of the budget process and allowing Department Heads to know City Council expectations for major focus items, Councilmember McGehee noted there were other policy issues for departments. Councilmember Etten Councilmember Etten expressed appreciation of many of the ideas expressed in Councilmember Laliberte's "white paper," and suggested taking items and mak- ing revisions that would essentially prioritize those priorities. Councilmember Et- ten stated that he really liked Councilmember Laliberte's idea of having fewer priorities and monthly updates, even perhaps some quarterly as applicable, but keeping them in front of the City. Councilmember Etten clarified that the purpose is not meant to direct all city operations and services, but those few areas the City Council wanted to specifically focus on. Councilmember Etten opined that housing and redevelopment was important for Roseville as the market continued to improve and the City to transition. Coun- cilmember Etten also spoke in support of the need to look at how to task advisory commissions and boards with meaningful activities. Specific to housing and re- development efforts, Councilmember Etten opined that this was largely up to the HRA and City Council working together to flesh out the targets and strategic ini- tiatives currently listed on the right side of the document; with continual adjust- ment over time as citizens and advisory commissions bring new information for- ward for the City Council's and HRA's attention. Specific to civic engagement, Councilmember Etten suggested changing the stra- tegic priority to "Community Outreach." Councilmember Etten noted that the CEC had already been tasked with many of these items, and had asked to be given the opportunity to address them in this important role. While supporting volun- teer opportunities, Councilmember Etten noted the need for more public input about how to get more new people involved. Noting his total support of participation by underrepresented groups in the com- munity, Councilmember Etten noted the need to continually and further address immigrant populations and apartment dwellers as part of that process and as a vi- tal part of the community. Councilmember Etten opined that those initiatives could be addressed as part of the role of advisory boards and commissions. Regarding infrastructure sustainability, Councilmember Etten opined that it fell into so many departments, and under the adopted CIP. Councilmember Etten opined that from his perspective, updating the CIP and adopting those updates in 2016 from the original 2012 document was a necessary step and would provide a more accurate document with those updates four years after inception.