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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, August 22, 2016 Page 17 number of those tools and included a public engagement planning worksheet that he thought would be useful beyond just the Comprehensive Plan update. Com- missioner Tomlinson advised that the CEC would continue reviewing available tools for other activities in addition to developing the evaluation tool for the Comprehensive Plan RFP. Recommend ways to e�and city learning and engagement opportunities (Com- missioners Manke/Sattler/Holub) As Commissioners Manke and Holub were unable to attend tonight's meeting, Chair Becker provided a brief update. Chair Becker noted the discussion had primarily focused on the Rosefest Parade and the CEC's involvement with the event. Chair Becker thanked Mayor Roe for coming to the CEC's rescue to assist in their parade efforts. Chair Becker admit- ted the CEC had mixed feelings about the value of continuing a presence in the parade, opining that commissioners felt there was more value with the one-on-one engagement through the Party in the Park event. Chair Becker sought City Coun- cil feedback on whether the Rosefest Parade presence should be augmented with other advisory commissioners and/or city council representation. Chair Becker thanked Councilmember Etten for his presence at the CEC booth on the Party in the Park. As part of the Party in the Park event, with the launch of the "Speak Up! Rose- ville" website last fall, Chair Becker noted the CEC conducted a straw poll vote using four ideas from the website. Chair Becker advised that the largest vote get- ter, and promises by the CEC that they'd bring it to the City Council's attention and without CEC advocacy, was resident desire for a community center (with a pool). Chair Becker also noted this working group's continued research of sample "Wel- come Packets" from other cities as they considered a recommendation as to whether or not it should be rejuvenated, and in hard copy or online, or both. In conclusion, related to community engagement in this specific context, Chair Becker noted consideration was also being reviewed for a possible citywide open house, or any other ideas the City Council directs. Form strategies for outreach to under-represented �roups (Commissioners Gardella/Sattler) With this specific priority area, and with a number of new commissioners on board, Commissioner Gardella noted the need to make sure everyone was on the same page with this area. One of the first steps reported by Commissioner Gardella was to articulate a purpose statement and a definition of "under- represented groups" in the community and who exactly belonged in that category besides already identified groups (e.g. renters, business tenants, and immigrant