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Definition and Process: As defined by the Tamarack Institute, community engagement is the process by which citizens are engaged to work and learn together on behalf of their communities to create and realize bold visions for the future. An organization might want to engage the community for one of several reasons: To inform community members about an initiative. To gather input from the community on a specific topic, proposal, or initiative. To collaborate with the community to generate solutions. To partner with the community to co-create solutions to community issues. An important step in successfully engaging the community is to determine the purpose for the engaged effort, community that purpose, and design the engagement activities to achieve your intended purpose. The Roseville City Council has requested that the HRIEC evaluates current community engagement efforts and provide guidance related to future engagement of diverse audiences The HRIEC is well positioned to do this work utilizing a phased approached. The first phase of the work will require the commission to understand the demographic make-up of the city. The Roseville 2040 Comprehensive plan provides an in-depth community profile which details information related to the people who live in the community and profiles past and future growth trends. This information can be viewed at: https://www.cityofroseville.com/DocumentCenter/View/25733/3---Community-Profile. This information will allow the commission to recommend strategies and engagement tactics that are specific to the City of Roseville. In addition to understanding the demographic make-up of the community, it will also be important to learn what community engagement currently looks like in the city, what has worked in the past, and what could be done better, what groups are currently being engaged, and what groups are not. To gain this information, a survey of city departments and interviews with key staff will be the best way to answer the following questions: How do they interact with the community? o What is the demographic profile of the groups they currently engage with? o What groups are missing from their engagement efforts? How would like to engage or interact with the community? How are they/have they successfully engaged the community? o Describe the initiative. o What was the intended purpose of the engagement effort? o What was the audience they engaged? o How did they engage the community?