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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 26, 2018 Page 7 year laid out to receive approval and then that would be what the HRIEC would focus on. Mayor Roe stated because there are fourteen proclamations and if two were fo- cused on each year, it would take seven years for the Human Trafficking to come back for highlighting unless the City wanted to bring it forward sooner due to it being a high priority issue. Councilmember Laliberte stated the HRIEC has chosen Hispanic Heritage Month for September and she knew that the Commission itself and the members on that Commission have changed a lot since the two commissions were merged and the City Council had a good conversation about trying to celebrate multiple cultures in the week of Rose Fest. She stated that is still something of interest to her ver- sus picking one culture. She did not know if all of the Commission Members know about the Council's conversation but really being able to pick a day or a number of days during Rose Fest and celebrating all of the cultures in the City. That might get the City out of picking one culture this year and another culture next year. Mayor Roe thought both could be done but.one of the key things for the Commis- sion is that part of the planning is to outline what the Commission might be taking on as responsibilities and work because there is work associated with it and what staff and other departments will be taking on as responsibilities, also what other partner entities will be brought forward as well. The Council wanted to make sure the HRIEC was not taking on too much work. Councilmember Willmus thanked the Commission and appreciated the initiative to look at the featured proclamations. He thought that was something the City has not done and an interesting way to call attention to some of these things the City has not had in the past. He agreed with the comments being offered so far. Chair Beltmann stated the great thing about doing two featured proclamations as a pilot program in 2019 is that it gives the HRIEC the opportunity to figure out what works and what is the best process for doing this. Councilmember Etten thanked the HRIEC for all of the work done on all of the proclamations. He liked the idea that came up about the display cases as an op- portunity to highlight things. He thought another potential to highlight the infor- mation is to display information at the Oval as more people travel through there. He thought two to highlight was reasonable, if time permits. He agreed that cul- tural events should be highlighted at the Rose Fest. He stated at the last HRIEC meeting discussion, there was talk about working with the EDA and the Roseville Business Council to do a presentation night and he thought it was a positive idea. He stated Grace Church has been a partner with the Police Department on some of the work being done. He stated on the point of student activity, the HRIEC has