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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3,2019 Page 40 their interests and passions are and if it is something that is very important to Councilmember Laliberte or any other Councilmember then certainly direct the Commission to do that but if it is not coming organically out of the Commission he thought it should rest until there is a Commissioner that feels it is important enough to do it. Mayor Roe thought the idea of the Commission is to find out if the ideas are good and find out if, as a City, those things should be done. Then it is up to the Council to figure out the resources with staff as to whether to do them. He did not think the Council expected to have the Commission plan everything. Councilmember Etten agreed and to the pieces Councilmember Laliberte brought forward, noted those are pieces the Council indicated as priorities and wanting to have them but as the Commission transitioned some of those items got lost as people moved on. The City has a new Council and four of the Members were on a Council that wanted to look at an open house and those pieces are things that he did want to put back into the decision-making process. Those things have been lost and sometimes things come organically and these were things the Council had put in the basket for the Commission and as working on things the Council wants the Commission to keep things reasonable but at the same time to go back and re- visit those items to address them. Mayor Roe thought the Commission should look at these items and try to figure out how to do them but not actually start making plans to do them. The Council concurred. Commissioner Djevi shared one idea he has proposed but has never happened is having a diversity group walk in the parade. That would involve finding people in the community who want to be a part of that diversity group walking and that would also imply that the Commission would have the capacity of going into a community to find those people. He reported it has not been clear to him that the Commission could actually go out and find those people. That is one area he is hearing that is something the Commission can do in terms of going out and find- ing those people. Mayor Roe thought if that is an idea the Commission thinks the City should un- dertake, the Commission should have a discussion about it and decide if it should be recommended to the Council and then the Council can respond to it and take that recommendation because he thought the piece that has to happen is discus- sion as a Commission, feedback to the Council and then feedback to the Commis- sion because he thought part of it is who is doing all of the work and he did not think the Council is telling the Commission to go out and do all of the work and set up people to walk in the parade, he thought the first discussion is if the City wants to have people walking in the parade who should it be and why and the