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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 30, 2015 Page 32 Mayor Roe stated he was supportive about using caution, but asked for feedback from individual Councilmembers and staff for further consideration in 2016. Community Enga�ement Commission (CEC� Councilmember McGehee questioned if the City Council was going to look at its charge to or possibly reigning gin the CEC or refocusing them more in line with what was originally intended when that charge was laid out. Absent that review, Councilmember McGehee opined there seemed to be a problem. Councilmember Willmus asked Councilmember McGehee for more specifics on the problems she perceived to have with the CEC. Councilmember McGehee opined that the CEC problem was that ma��y things historically done by the HRC as they finished getting their website up and run- ning, had now spread out into other areas for the CEC beyond getting citizens in- volved in civic government and was engaging them in things other commissions were already doing. Based on his observation of their recent meetings, Councilmember Willmus opined their focus of late was regarding neighborhood associations, and therefore, he didn't know if he could share the same concern as Councilmember McGehee that there was an issue with neighborhood associations and the HRC in that re- gard. While that may be true, Councilmember McGehee questioned if the City Coun- cil's charge was to have the CEC aggressively form neighborhood associations. Councilmember Willmus questioned if that was what the CEC was doing, opining that from his observation they were looking into that and crafting recommenda- tions to bring to the City Council, as had been discussed at the last joint meeting with them. � Mayor Roe agreed that had been discussed the last few times the CEC had met with the City Council. Mayor Roe opined that from his perspective he saw the �� challenge for the CEC was not with their scope, duties or functions or that they were �wrong or there was an expectation issue. Mayor Roe opined that the chal- lenge appeared to be members wanting to be mare involved in engaging residents versus advising the City Council on processes and policies, even though that mes- sage had been relayed repeatedly. Mayor Roe questioned if there was more the City Council needed to do or how that directive may look. However, Mayor Roe opined that the CEC's review of neighbarhood associations was exactly what they reported they were working on and the City Council gave them the go ahead to do so. Mayor Roe advised that he was not aware of the CEC aggressively seeking to form neighborhood associations, but stated his expectation anticipated their return to the City Council with their recommendations.