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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 25, 2017 Page 14 groups, with every effort made to balance demographic responses, but reminded residents of the opportunities always available to provide input via email to the consultants and/or staff as outlined on the web page. Councilmember Willmus encouraged Ms. Major to take advantage of the Rose- ville Business Council as a captive audience, with Ms. Major responding that she and staff would continue to attempt coordinating a meeting in that venue. In efforts to target the Karen Organization of Minnesota (KOM), Councilmember Etten opined that there was no reason staff or the City Council couldn't make that happen given their importance in the community, and offered his assistance to fa- cilitate that and consider alternates outside traditional settings. Ms. Collins reviewed liaison partnerships to that community and additional work by Ms. Major on the Rice Street/Larpenteur Avenue project and materials provid- ed to those immigrant community leaders with Police Department outreach to res- idents in those apartments. Ms. Collins advised that comprehensive plan materi- als were made available at this opportune time as the group came together and networked. However, Ms. Collins noted the difficulty in obtaining that feedback based on the needs of that community; and reported that the Karen population was moving into St. Paul and residents in that area of Roseville were revolving more around the Congolese, Nepali and Burmese populations. Ms. Collins reported that the biggest issue for these residents remained the availability of playgrounds, with the complexities of the comprehensive plan often lost in translation and of little interest. Ms. Major reported on the very successful engagement with the Nepali communi- ty in the Brittany and Marion Park neighborhoods, with understanding of how best to engage them is still an evolving process to build on. Mayor Roe agreed that as new citizens to the United States and City of Roseville, a conceptual or abstract land use or development plan twenty-years out may not be of interest or a priority for them. Ms. Collins reported that the first mailing for the initial kick-off community meet- ing, at a cost of$7,000, had resulted in only seventy people in attendance, consid- ered good given the other activities in which residents are residents are involved. As detailed in the RCA and attachments, in addition to the updated timeline pro- vided as a bench handout to the report, Ms. Major reviewed the remaining sched- ule and review of the draft plan in early winter by the Planning Commission and City Council, as well as other opportunities for public review and input through- out that time. Ms. Major suggested additional newsletter alerts and online options may be considered as the document is posted in its entirety online.