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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 8, 2016 Page 21 1 2Mayor Roe suggested that the HRC look at that language again and make a rec- 3ommendation to the City Council. 4 5Councilmember Etten agreed with Councilmember Laliberte’s suggestion of the 6Roseville HRC advocating and supporting the Minnesota Human Rights Act. 7 8Mayor Roe suggested substituting Councilmember Laliberte’s language and re- 9move “in implementing” and replace it with “…by assisting the state department 10of human rights in implementing the Minnesota Human Rights Act by advocating 11and supporting the Act, and advising the City Council…” Mayor Roe personally 12suggested that there be no modifier related to advising the City Council on pro- 13grams to improve community relations, whether short- or long-range programs, 14that either should be considered. 15 16Chair Groff advised that he would bring that suggestion back to the HRC at their 17next meeting. 18 19Mayor Roe echoed the comments of his colleagues on the good work accom- 20plished and being done by the HRC and thanked them for their review of this 21document. Mayor Roe recognized that it had been stressful for the HRC over the 22last few months with a shortage of members. Mayor Roe further echoed support 23to build cultural activities into existing events or into the life of the community; 24and encouraged the HRC to foster that and make recommendations to the City 25Council accordingly. 26 27Chair Scot Becker, CEC 28Chair Becker briefly summarized the materials (Attachment C) providing the sta- 29tus of 2015 CEC priority projects and an overview of CEC adopted 2016 priority 30projects proposed. Chair Becker reported that the joint task force of the CEC and 31Planning Commission to study notification issues and formats, as well as recom- 32mendations to the City Council on formation of neighborhood associations was 33anticipated early in 2016. 34 35In 2016 Priority Projects of the CEC, Mayor Roe noted the third bullet point “ex- 36panding city leaning/engagement opportunities,” suggesting the need to discuss 37with the CEC the line between recommending, advocating, advising and imple- 38menting. Mayor Roe opined that the implantation category needed further review 39of those lines from his perspective, specifically if considerable time was intended 40to be spent by the CEC in forming a welcome packet and/or implementing a city 41open house. 42 43Chair Becker advised that he shared those concerns, and part of the CEC’s rec- 44ommendations to the City Council would be directing reliance on city staff for 45implementation.