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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 12, 2016 Page 4 hood Energy Connection will provide hands-on demonstrations and tips. These work- shops are free of charge. Councilmember Laliberte announced the Roseville Community Health Awareness Team (CHAT) has been collaborating with the Ramsey County Library and the City of Rose- ville to provide a three-part educational series designed to provide essential information about vital healthcare topics. The first session is this Saturday at the Roseville Library from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The goal is for attendees to learn how to empower them- selves when interacting with the health care system and finding health care information on the internet. She advised of those participating in a panel presentation and discussion. In response to Councilmember McGehee, Councilmember Laliberte stated the second st session on October 1 will be a discussion on healthcare homes as a provider process, and the third session will be a repeat of the April discussion on advanced care planning and health care directive documents. City Manager Patrick Trudgeon stated this Friday afternoon he will be interviewed on the Hmong TV Network in St. Paul to talk about the program the City helps produce with TPT ECHO relating to rental rights and responsibilities in five different languages. Mayor Roe thanked all who participated in creating that video. Councilmember Willmus stated during Public Comment, Ms. Ramundt had mentioned a newspaper article and one of the things that concerned him with the article is that only one Councilmember had been interviewed for that story. He stated in the future, he would hope, out of fairness, that reporters would do their journalistic duties to at least make an effort to reach out to the entire Council as there are often different perspectives with regard to issues that come before this body. Councilmember Willmus stated there is a difference between being heard and the outcome of this body that falls in line with a particular individual’s line of thought. He noted the Council is charged with making de- cisions on various issues but that’s not to say that everyone is always going to agree. However, at the end of the day, he believes this body has the best interest of Roseville at heart and if he didn’t believe that, he does not think we would all be sitting here. Mayor Roe stated one of the pieces of information in the article, which is a rather tech- nical correction, but the article made it sound like the proposal for neighborhood associa- tions in Roseville was, essentially, to impose the associations on residents but that was not an accurate characterization of the proposal that came from the Community Engage- ment Commission and Task Force. Mayor Roe explained the whole point was that if neighborhoods wanted to form a neighborhood association, the City would provide the resources to facilitate that process. Mayor Roe stated he was not able to attend but understands a new Veterans Memorial was opened at the Roselawn Cemetery on Saturday, September 10. He stated this Memo- rial looks to be quite a tribute to our soldiers and those who have lost their lives in service to the country. Mayor Roe stated he appreciates that is in our community as a resource to help honor those who have served.