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Roseville Parks and Recreation Community Relations and Public Engagement Plan Page 3 Roseville Parks and Recreation Community Relations and Public Engagement Plan Overview The purpose of this Community Relations and Public Engagement Plan is to focus on community relations and public interaction in Roseville and specifically to facilitate ongoing community contact, connections, understanding, support and to foster the development and sustaining of relationships in a variety of ways. This document outlines core strategies to be pursued when Roseville moves through a process of engaging residents and stakeholders to further understanding their desires and concerns for park and facility improvements, recreation program interests in the community and issues. While the specifics of each may vary depending on conditions and community/neighborhood's, this strategy suggests direction for general outreach and defines a prototypical approach used for individual efforts;weather a park improvement, facility need, a recreation program or isolated issues.This is an effort to establish and maintain regular connections with the community so that when there are projects or issues that arise,there is already a working relationship with one another.This plan works in conjunction with the City Communications Plan. This plan relies on the directions of the System Master Plan and the City Communications Plan as guiding documents for parks and recreation system improvements and issues. Continuity with the Master Plan is critical, but the intent of the public engagement process is to better define those parks and recreation improvements that are framed in the Master Plan, or issues that have risen—not to ignore or change the core values and key directions of the plan, but to provide more clarity so the community can best be served. As occurred during the Master Plan, the key strategy in the public engagement process is to allow the residents, participants and park stakeholders the opportunity to contribute their local knowledge and insights to the parks and recreation system. Meetings and/or connection opportunities will be orchestrated to present information but will allow significant time for residents and stakeholders to share their thoughts, concerns, and opinions. Interactions among residents and stakeholders will occur with individuals and in both small and large group formats. While the focus on public engagement is residents and stakeholders, others with an interest in the city's parks and recreation might also be engaged, including watershed districts, the school district, Ramsey County (particularly for trails projects), and perhaps even neighboring communities. In addition, the engagement process should be extended to allow park advocacy groups and potential park benefactors the opportunity access to the process. For most of these groups, face-to-face meetings will be the best avenue for interactions. Where agendas and notice letters are provided in this document, they are more for public meetings, more focused agendas should be created for these face-to-face meetings. Interaction with the public will assist in the effort to assess and create department policy.