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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 37 Councilmember Groff agreed and indicated he read through the HRIEC minutes as well and wanted to clarify with the Council because what is going on here is how much the Commission can do with connecting with the community with the Council approval and how much the Council wants the Commission to do. He thought from his perspective, when he was on the Commission, everyone is very respectful and understand the limits. He thought it was important to make that contact because people do not realize what the HRIEC does and there is an educa- tional component that may not fit the way the City sets them up for the different communities. Maybe there is some piece that can be added that works. Chair Beltmann thought the Commission was looking for approval to go out in an official capacity to make those connections. If the Commission can do that to build connections or should those connections be passed off to staff to make those connections. Mayor Roe thought it was very important in any kind of relationship the devel- opment starts with the actual connection. If the a Commissioner knows someone to establish a connection then he thought, from his perspective, the Commission is trying to bring those connections into the City one way or another and the Council has.to expect that the Commissioners or other members of the community who may not even be on the Commission have those connections can bring them in and be a personal part of making that connection with those individuals. He thought there would be a staff involvement, potentially at some point in this pro- cess as well. Commissioner Beltmann thought that is where the Best Practices document really marries with this in that it would be for the Commission to go out and get feed- back on what the community would like to see or to engage the community and then the handoff and marrying of the relationship between that community group and the City. Councilmember Etten generally agreed with the comments but there is still a grey area of where the Commission would hand off to City staff and he agreed that the first connection has to be with people the Commissioners know and that is how the relationships are built in a healthy way. Once a relationship is established and community events are being planned that is where City Staff should be involved. Councilmember Etten was thinking about the Hispanic Heritage event and look- ing back to the first event the City had with discussion about wanting to establish some framing ahead of time before too many promises were made and too many plans were done and thinking that this is June and the Hispanic Heritage event is a few months away,he wondered at what step is the planning on that.