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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 6, 2019 Page 21 Councilmember Willmus thought when the Council first started touching on this, from his perspective, it was really something that was more of an organic, grass roots type of effort that came forward. What he struggles with is if the Council rolls it over and folds it into a City function or under the guise of the City of Ro- seville, does it become something different, does it function differently. He stated the City has a whole different set of processes it goes through if it is governed by an Advisory Commission. He thought there was significantly more benefit the way that it has come up and the way these events have been conducted but he worried if it is rolled under the guise of a Commission, it might potentially lose something, lose some flexibility. Councilmember Laliberte stated rather than talking about what the next topic should be, she assumed the conversation would be whether should it be grass roots and left to the community to talk about future topics, to decide who is in- volved, and City resources are not used at all. Or the way it has been done where there is City time and City resources but no one is appointed and there is not a process that comes before the Council for approval. The third option is what Councilmember Willmus was describing, which is it a City thing with all the steps and processes to it. She thought going forward it was helpful to the Council to discuss what is the best way to create the best engagement. She commented that if it is sanctioned as a City group, there needs to have some process in place. Councilmember Etten stated he was not quite sure and this had a terrible starting point but that pushed the City outside of the normal and has helped the City grow a lot and change. He did not want to create a forced list of things. He did not know how to do this. Looking at this, the Council has dug in a fair amount and he was not sure how the Council comes to the next things without taking the studs off the wall, for example. Mayor Roe stated in terms of City involvement and in the decision making, the City Manager participated along with Councilmember Etten, a couple representa- tives from the HRIEC, and people that actually ended up as Commissioners on other City Commissions; there was a lot of City involvement in the "planning group." He thought it has really served well as a bit of a check and balance to the process of being sort of grass roots and community driven. It helped make sure that if it has City resources behind it, then it is something truly that the City should have resources behind. He stated the non-City participants really brought good perspective about some of the things that people would think might have been the perspective of the City in terms of different ways to approach conversa- tion or a topic. Those members of the community recognized and acknowledged that and actually made good suggestions about ways to move forward and deal with that. He stated he was not so concerned that it needs to be within the con- straints of a Commission and all of that function because as Councilmember Willmus mentioned, it loses a lot and on the other hand, it is not completely in the