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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 3, 2019 Page 41 Commission should make a recommendation and the Council should review it and decide how to do it. Chair Beltmann stated for the upcoming parade the Commission is highlighting the LGBTQIA+ Proclamation so the Commission is working on filling the parade spot. Commissioner Peterson commented the Commission did bring that up at the last joint meeting with the Council and it was briefly touched on and the Council did not give any indication not to do it, so the Commission is moving forward with it. Chair Beltmann thought with all of the ideas, being newer to the Commission, she had not heard of the ideas and did think that as the Commission is talking about opportunities to do further engagement in the community and what types of pro- gramming and things the City could do she thought it was definitely worthwhile for the Commission to revisit the topics and work through them and at a future meeting bring them forward the Council. Chair Beltmann summarized what she has gotten out of this discussion with the Council, in terms of building a list who should be contacts, the Commission is in the clear to go forward with it, keeping in mind both community individuals and institutions and organizations. In terms of actually going out into the community, where there are connections that tie to a key group or outreach group the Com- mission can go and start building those relationships or continue to nurture the re- lationship. To talk about what engagement could look like but in terms of making any promises about doing things, that is not a role for the Commission. Councilmember Laliberte thought the Council would approve that but the only thing would be for the Commission to loop in staff or Ms. Olson early in that pro- cess, so it becomes a shared list and not just the Commissioners individual contact because things happen, and the City does not want to lose that contact. Councilmember Etten reported one of the Commission's list of accomplishments deals with the creation of a position description as the Commission is looking at recruiting youth members and he had a conversation with Ms. Olson about doing this for everything so as the Commission looks at how Commissioners are recruit- ed, part of that should be looking at connecting with each Commission and asking them to create a description for each Commission. Councilmember Groff liked the input from the Commissioners on their roles and what each one likes about their position and what the Commission does. Mayor Roe thought there was a little discussion about how to manage doing some of the projects related to these recommendations in the toolkit for the engagement and to provide some feedback on it in case there are some questions is the idea