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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, February 8, 2016 Page 23 1Councilmember Laliberte expressed her disappointment that the City Council 2hadn’t received the CEC’s recommendations on formation of neighborhood asso- 3ciations sooner, and expressed her personal concern in the 2015 CEC status up- 4date using words like “assist” and “encourage” when her understanding was that 5the intent was to create a guide for the process versus pushing neighborhoods to 6do something they’re not motivated to do. Councilmember Laliberte expressed 7her anticipation of that coming back to the City Council soon. 8 9Chair Becker advised that his estimated timing was conservative and as an indi- 10vidual commissioner hoped to have it ready to handoff sooner, but noted it may 11be necessary to delay it another month realistically, even though the final docu- 12ment and recommendation to the City Council was very close to being completed. 13Chair Becker clarified that the CEC was bringing forward a set of recommenda- 14tions for the city to assist formation of neighborhood associations, but further 15clarified that the intent was not for the CEC to take any active role once that 16handoff to the City Council had been completed. 17 18Councilmember Laliberte stated that she was envisioning a proposed step by step 19kit for neighborhood organization, such as done for the organized trash hauling 20effort. 21 22Chair Becker advised that some of that was included in CEC recommendations. 23 24Councilmember Laliberte recognized the CEC’s interest in receiving direction re- 25lated to SE Roseville, admitting that she was also struggling with what had been 26done, what was being done, and what still needed to be done; whether all stake- 27holders are plugged in or others remained to be engaged; and how to get to frui- 28tion. Councilmember Laliberte stated that she wasn’t even aware if the right peo- 29ple were currently working on the issue; and expressed her understanding of the 30CEC needing to figure out where they fit in. 31 32Specific to a previous City Council directive and 2014 strategy included in the 33CEC ordinance, Councilmember Laliberte asked that the City’s Volunteer Coor- 34dinator have touch points with the CEC in areas where volunteer opportunities are 35available. Councilmember Laliberte opined that the CEC has a better idea of that 36piece related to volunteerism since it was part of their ordinance language. 37 38As heard earlier tonight during public comment, Councilmember McGehee stated 39that she was not a big supporter of the CEC and had never been, noting the many 40problems. While expressing appreciation for the CEC’s work on the city website 41which was vitally needed and had been accomplished, along with the work she 42anticipated from the notification task force, Councilmember McGehee opined 43there was little need for a group to work on community engagement and involve- 44ment as long as the City Council now had policies in place. Councilmember 45McGehee noted her ongoing concern in the lack of City Council responsiveness