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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3,2019 Page 36 Councilmember Laliberte thought it was important for the City to reach out to the more permanent institutions that will be a part of the community regardless of who the contact person is. She would very much support the building of that list, the continual updating of the list and gathering of information. The one caution she would have is making any commitments because of the possible strain on staff She thought the information needed to be gathered on how the City could best outreach and then assess what the City could commit to. Chair Beltmann said that is something the Commission has talked a lot about and personally with the line of work she is in, is it is very important and none of the Commissioners have discussed going out and making promises. It is really fo- cused on the relationship building side and she thought wanting to gain a better understanding of where the Commission can hold and maintain those relation- ships. Councilmember Laliberte concurred with what Councilmember Etten said regard- ing appointing people to the HRIEC who have connections so not everything has to be handed off to staff because of what she just said. She thought it was proba- bly a combination of working to identify who the connections are and not only doing a hand off to staff but also working out how to support this and a part of the dialogue the Commission would have at their meetings. Mayor Roe thought that made sense. He thought the City had both the challenge of developing the connection and the challenge of developing the infrastructure. He thought it was important to try to figure out the connections to make and he thought that will need to be a thoughtful process going forward, knowing what some of those challenges are. Mayor Roe stated another piece he wanted to add is with under represented groups that maybe are not participating in the City processes right now, it is en- tirely possible that either and or both of these things are that members of these groups may not know what the City does and how it impacts their lives and the other piece maybe even if those groups do know those members choose to remain unengaged. He thought the City has to be respectful of that as well and do not want to alienate those groups. Commissioner Djevi reported he was in a meeting in preparation of the Hispanic Month celebration and one thing that came up at the meeting was that the Hispan- ic community was not aware of the City passing the Resolution about Immigra- tion which was personally shocking for him because he thought that was really a good thing the City did but people intended to be affected by it were not involved or aware. This is the kind of relationship that he thought would be really helpful in identifying where this lack in communication is so that the City can bring to the community things that have already been done in a good or even bad way and how the City can correct them by working together with the communities.