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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes June 12, 2019 Page 6 of 19 Chair Beltmann indicated on the engagement work the City Council had a lot of feedback. Overall it was positive. The Council gave the Commission direction to move forward with identifying organizations, individuals, and agencies that could be community contacts and where the Commissioners have relationships it is ok to move forward to make those contacts. She thought the Commission needed to talk about what that looks like. Chair Beltmann stated the City Council did have some specific engagement events and activities that have come up in the past that the Council asked the Commission to circle back to and discuss. Chair Beltmann stated the other big thing with the proclamation work the Commission did, the next big proclamation project will be Hispanic Heritage month and the Council asked the Commission to get moving on planning it in order to bring a recommendation to the Council in July to be approved in order to move it forward with planning. Commissioner Peterson felt the meeting went well overall and the feedback was positive for a lot of items. She thought it was helpful the Commission had some specific questions for the Council to get feedback on. Commissioner Djevi thought it was a good meeting and the Commission received clarification on some things that the Commission can and cannot do. He thought what transpired personally to him was that the City Council is open minded about the Commission engaging and trying to find the contact people the Commission has been talking about for some time. Commissioner Bolinger agreed and thought the Commission has some actual direction and can go out and talk to people, not necessarily represent the City of Roseville, but representing the Commission and to start the relationships. She stated the Council also gave a little leeway on when to hand things over to staff as well. Chair Beltmann stated as a Commission the Commissioners can work on tasks in pairs outside of the meeting. Commissioner Hassan wondered which way this is going with the individuals and organizations. Chair Beltmann thought where the Commission is at right now a list should start to be built of potential contacts in the community and develop the list of individuals and contacts and the Commission needs to figure out what the outreach will look like. It is not necessarily deciding projects that the Commission is bringing to the communities or asking them to come in and suggest projects, the Commission is still developing the list and having conversations.