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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 28,2019 Page 2 programs, procedures and has made significant efforts, particularly in the areas of policing to address the historical institutional inequities." to the Black History Month Proclamation before the 2019 theme Whereas clause. Council Discussion Councilmember Etten stated he knew that the School Districts and City were working on this and in some ways, it holds the City accountable to continue that work and he wanted to acknowledge that as a part of this ongoing work. He thought it was important because of how much specific effort has happened in this area. Councilmember Willmus agreed and thought one of the things the City is looking to do with the proclamations is to tie them to what is going on in Roseville and what the City could be doing. He also thought this was an acknowledgement of what the City is doing. He agreed whole heartedly with the effort that the two Public School Districts are making in this area as well and thought it was im- portant to call attention to those things. Councilmember Groff thought the statement was a good addition, but he would like to see whether members of the Human Rights Inclusion and Engagement Commission, who are at the meeting, would have any comments on this. He also thought if Councilmembers have that sort of thing, that it would be good to com- municate with the Commissions because the Commissions are the place where these items are worked on and a lot of work goes into these documents. Councilmember Etten agreed to ask for the Commission's thoughts on this. He noted this proclamation was before him Thursday night and usually the proclama- tions come before the month or week so the Council could table this in order for the Commission to have a discussion regarding the addition or the Council could move it forward. He thought kicking this proclamation back would create an even weirder delay. Councilmember Willmus thought this was something the Council wanted to acknowledge and take an action on before February. If this was kicked back to the HRIE Commission, he wondered what the timeline would be for approval. Mr. Trudgeon thought the HRIE Commission did not meet until February 20, which is pretty deep into February. Mayor Roe thought there was a little bit of compressed time frame and the Coun- cil did see the draft in the fall, but he wanted to open this up for comment and hoped this addition would be positive and can be seen that way. He asked if any- one from the HRIEC would like to comment on the proposed change.