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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 30, 2015 Page 30 Public Safetv Commission Mayor Roe noted his long-time goal of getting more residents involved in public safety policy, which served as the biggest part of the City's public face and staff- ing. Mayor Roe noted previous discussions related to establishment of a Public Safety Commission, for which he remained an advocate, but without coming to fruition. From his personal perspective, Mayor Roe suggested a good way for that to evolve would be from the existing Police Civil Service Commission and continu- ing their role with the Police Department staffing as a subcommittee. Mayor Roe clearly advised that he was in no way speaking to any role for them in public re- view of police officer complaints. In conjunction with the Fire Department's conversion from its current structure to paid on-call structure, Mayor Roe opined that having a public safety commission role may have proven helpful during that process, as we11 as in considering staff'ing levels of the Police Department and re- cent discussion for community service officers, and even back as far as the fire station study and other issues involving public safety. Mayor Roe stated that he continued to view that as a missing part of the process, even in dealing with traffic safety aspects and issues with city streets such as speed concerns. Mayor Roe also suggested a role in the Public Works function and other depart- ments, including nuisance code (junk and debris in yards) and general public safe- ty and welfare issues for residents of and visitors to Roseville. In light of that, Mayor Roe distributed his initial concept to initiate discussion via that he had prepared and entitled, "Chapter 203 Public Safety Commission (11/l5 — Roe draft) replacing existing Chapter 203 Police Civil Service Commission, Based on her preliminary review, Councilmember McGehee stated she didn't agree with this serving as another Commission, since those functions listed were all task force jobs. Councilmember McGehee opined that the City Council had al- ready gone overboard with commissions, and a task force could just as well ad- vise them on traffic on residential streets, to look at full-time paid on-call fire- fighter staffing, or any number of things without having another standing com- mission. Councilmember McGehee stated there was a segment of Roseville's population having a considerable amount of interest and skills to share related to a specific interest or expertise that would be willing to share if not required to sign- up for three years of ineetings, but only for short-term task forces for proj ect- specific issues. Councilmember Willmus expressed his willingness to look at the possibility, stat- ing his support would hinge on the focus of such a commission's charge, or scope of their duties. Councilmember Willmus recognized that Mayor Roe had long had something like this in the back of his mind and �requently brought it forward for discussion. Councilmember Willmus stated he would not say "no" at this point, and would like to further explore it and define the scope, charge and duties.