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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 9, 2017 Page 15 sion and Engagement Commission — HRIEC) versus having them run in parallel tracks. Assistant City Manager Olson responded that, based on her previous experience with the program, there was a heavy focus internally at first and emphasized that it was important to understand these difficult topics that continued to come for- ward in the community before facilitating discussions with others, in order to de- velop a skill-set to intentionally address those areas. If not, Ms. Olson opined that it could do more damage than good if some of those important conversations were tackled without having a prior understanding and knowledge of how best to ad- dress and engage the discussion. Councilmember Laliberte noted that the community was already involved in many areas similar to the GARE initiative, and asked that the HRIEC have a dis- cussion about how to pull things together (e.g. Imagine Roseville process in SE Roseville) and make recommendations to the City Council as to how each com- plemented the other versus competing or duplicating parallel tracks. Also, Coun- cilmember Laliberte asked how the time commitment (66 hours per person) im- pacted the regular functions and daily work load of participating staff. City Manager Trudgeon stated that, no doubt, there would be an impact on staff, but further stated the importance of the city doing this program, and allowing staff to re-prioritize their work load to include this program especially given its high priority to the community and city. Mr. Trudgeon opined that he didn't see staff losing productivity or that any additional staff would be needed, but that he saw this program working into staff's day and/or evening work load, but not impacting regular city services. Mr. Trudgeon reiterated the importance and worthiness of investing in this program and value added to the city. If there should be any inef- ficiencies found in delivery of city services, Mr. Trudgeon opined it would be a small price to pay compared to the importance of this program. Councilmember McGehee asked if City Manager Trudgeon saw this as a staff first effort with their ability to share regularly with the HRIEC what was being learned or if he saw this as tied to the HRIEC with commissioners involved as part of the GARE team. City Manager Trudgeon responded that he would focus on staff first with them then sharing what was learned with the HRIEC as the program is completed. If in the future, the LMC has an elected official portion of the GARE program to offer, Mr. Trudgeon suggested that would provide an opportunity for commissioners as well. Mr. Trudgeon advised that the city had an option to train or share infor- mation and work together collaboratively, and stated that staff would work hard to do that. Even though comments are frequently heard about the "silo" issue, Mr. Trudgeon suggested that the training focus first on staff.