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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 17, 2016 Page 15 uniqueness of each of those areas that provided opportunities, especially on the economic development side based on his perspective. Mayor Roe noted the team’s reference to homework assignments, opining that the City Council considered those exercises positive experiences, and stated that nei- ther he nor his colleagues were adverse to them. Beyond existing goals and poli- cies, Mayor Roe sought to better understand how the team would address the overarching document from 2025 entitled the Imagine Roseville 2025 community visioning process, asking how they would provide a check in to determine if that vision was still relevant with the community. Ms. Major noted that the document had been key in providing a community vision for the Parks & Recreation Master Plan process, providing a clear touch point to continually return to whenever another Master Plan step was taken. Ms. Major opined that a balancing act was required between building on what people did be- fore so they don’t become frustrated with you and the process, while providing space for new ideas. When facilitating meetings like that, Ms. Major advised that she included confirmation or a check in exercise and space for new ideas to allow that balance to happen. No matter what tool was ultimately used as a starting point, Ms. Major opined that the important thing was how you asked the ques- tions, allowing both support of the past and open-ended enough to allow new ide- as. Ms. Purdu suggested the community visioning might be a good starting point on the website project to ask those key questions, such as:  Do you want to live here?  Do you want to stay here?  What would make you stay here? Ms. Purdu opined that this offered some ideas for respondents with guiding prin- ciples rather than starting with a blank statement, and allowed quick touch points or interactive activity with people for outreach at events and other areas providing that interaction. Ms. Purdu noted it also provided a way to determine common threads creating a good basis in a future vision or new aspects to the existing vi- sion. Ms. Major noted it was intentional with their team to not sweep in and provide answers to questions. Ms. Major opined that city staff, the City Council and the community’s residents and business owners are the experts on Roseville and un- derstand it best. Therefore, if their team presumed to ask those questions in ad- vance, it would not be as meaningful or positive as building on the knowledge al- ready in place in Roseville. Mayor Roe emphasized the response to his question to address goals and docu- ments in the existing plan that area based on Imagine Roseville 2025 community visioning, that may need to be removed if no longer relevant and so indicated.