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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 9,2018 Page 6 Ms. Hilden noted she has been in the City for 26 years. Every time she attends the Council meeting, she comes with a degree of trepidation. It does not feel par- ticularly welcoming or easy, and she is an English-speaking person living in SE Roseville. The SE Roseville area has been a downer for a long time. Being left out of this plan is another blow and adds to the feeling that this area does not count as much as the rest of Roseville. She continued by saying it is not easy to engage with the Southeast Asian neighbors, but lots of efforts have been made for the good of Roseville. She encouraged the Council to listen carefully to the pub- lic feedback and to reconsider the bus route. She suggested more informal com- munity gatherings where people can talk about things being proposed. That strat- egy would be a lot easier than asking folks to come to the Council chambers. Kumar Tamang,7035 Marion Estate,Roseville Mr. Tamang began by saying he is working as a senior citizens program coordina- tor as a Bhutanese neighborhood committee. He thanked Sherri Sanders and Pas- tor Dana Nelson because they have been helping the immigrants living in the Lar- penteur Street area. There are many Bhutanese/Nepali immigrants living in this area. Many of the people are not aware of Shuttlebug transportation. He has heard from people in this area that transportation would be very helpful to shop- ping centers and learning centers. Besides the Bhutanese and Nepali, there are al- so Karen-speaking and African-speaking immigrants, and many are not aware of these bus services. If flyers can be printed in their own language, those can be distributed so that those people can find out about the free transportation. Mayor Roe asked what mechanism is in place to help prevent riders from missing the bus. Mr. Olson explained that in a two-bus program, each driver has a radio. If driver #1 drops off six passengers at Target, driver#2 will be aware of that. The goal is to ensure everyone gets back home. The drivers, however, will not be getting off the bus and going down the aisles to find people. If there are language barriers, that needs to be addressed. He emphasized that it has never been the intention to exclude. The original intention was to include the Sun and Marion Apartments. But after reaching out, NewTrax was given information that there was no interest for the service. He also noted that the goal has always been to build up the ser- vice to meet needs. He would love to sit down and talk with the goal of expand- ing as needed. Changing the route map happened as a result of the correspond- ence and communication that occurred. Ms. Barsel pointed out that it is not accurate to imply that SE Roseville was not included on the route because it was not wanted or unimportant. Rather, infor- mation was put out to as many different community groups and Roseville groups as possible. She read aloud an email that was sent to Alexis Walstad, second in command at KOM, which relates that the staff for the Brittany Marion Apart-