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Attachment B HRIEC Working Strategy Proposal Introduction: The Council of the City of Roseville, MN formed the Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission (HRIEC). The commission has three duties: to evaluate the City's outreach efforts, to advise the City Council on strategies to improve outreach and communication and increase engagement, and lastly to engage residents and businesses through City Council-approved programs, events and projects that support the commission's purpose. Over the past year, since the formation of this new commission, a lot of effort and work have been done to make the commission function effectively and efficiently. The reality, however, is that the commission still needs to put in place its working strategies to fulfill its duties. This proposal intends to summarize a working strategy pending full commission discussion followed by approval by the City Council. This proposal is not an attempt to run the commission in any way that is contrary to the City Council's vision and norms. It is not an attempt to take over the functions of vital services that different departments of the city government provide to the community. This proposal intends to improve the quality of already existent outreach efforts and to design new engagement and inclusion programs. A. Background on Community Engagement Definition: The process of working collaboratively with and through groups of people affiliated by geographic proximity, special interest, or similar situations to address issues affecting the well-being of those people (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Community Engagement has some roots in the 1600's Central European Slogan of"Nothing About Us Without Us" used to communicate the idea that no policy should be decided by any representative without the full and direct participation of members of the group (s) affected by that policy. It was also the basis of the American Revolutionary War's saying"No Taxation Without Representation." B. Benefits of community engagement: • Collective intelligence and working together more accurately identify problems and develop more elegant and effective solutions. • Minimization of conflict if community"buys into the process." • Building of trust between government and community. • Development of new leaders.