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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,August 24, 2015 Page 13 clearer understanding if and when they received a public notice, not just how to meet their neighbors. Councilmember McGehee opined that this should include how the process worked, how local government is structured, and how to make speakers more comfortable expressing themselves to the City Council or make a statement or point, even if that involved mock scenarios in public speaking, which she considered a huge part of civic engagement in removing those barriers. Councilmember Laliberte opined that, no matter the steps taken, there would re- main hesitation or lack of involvement from some, and sought additional feedback from the CEC on how best to address that. Councilmember Laliberte agreed with Mayor Roe in looking at the points of contact with the community during a pro- cess to identify which stage a project was at and what tools to use for particular stages for community engagement. Councilmember Laliberte expressed her in- terest in the CEC being involved in the SE Roseville process, even though the work was underway,but perhaps in compiling the bits and pieces to make sure the overall picture was available given the number of components in this large pro- ject. Councilmember Laliberte clarified that she was not intending that the CEC own the SE Roseville initiative, but just to ensure all touch points and stakehold- ers were addressed and familiar to all. Mayor Roe concurred with that suggestion. Mayor Roe suggested that since the SE Roseville project was so all-encompassing, his intent with previous comments was for the CEC to provide ideas not for a generic set of tools that would be rele- vant to all situations, but for a process and specific tools for a particular target — tools, timing and process — that would be beneficial to all involved and moving forward. Mayor Roe noted that this may even involve, specifically with the SE Roseville initiative already in process, a review in hindsight of missing pieces or something that stands out that would involve stakeholders in the future, perhaps using this as a case study in progress. Mayor Roe noted the City's Comprehensive Plan update due in 2017 as a major initiative that would benefit from suggestions of the CEC before getting into the process. Mayor Roe suggested this may include whether or not to update the community vision before then or how that informed the Comprehensive Plan up- date. Mayor Roe noted the need to be prepared for those steps now before getting into the Comprehensive Plan process itself. • City Council consensus was that the CEC focus on SE Roseville and Community Visioning/Comprehensive Plan update processes for feedback to the City Council at their earliest convenience. As a separate item, Councilmember Laliberte spoke in support of the idea of the proposed listening/learning events, but at this point didn't know how to or how not to support them, since the Human Rights Commission (HRC) was also in flux with that initiative and she didn't want the efforts of the CEC and HRC duplicated