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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes June 12, 2019 Page 9 of 19 Ms. Olson thought the idea of having the Commission touch on the bigger, broader engagement and then coming back to these projects and evaluating them to see if the projects would work in the City. b. Engagement Project Next Steps Chair Beltmann stated over the past several months, the Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission has been working on a two-prong approach to the directive provided by the City Council at the joint meeting. Commissioner Peterson asked what Chair Beltmann thought the tasks should consist of. Chair Beltmann noted there were five tasks she had on her list for the group to do. On the best practice side, if there is someone who is interested in the short-term in working with her on drafting it out and building out the best practice document. That way it can be determined what pieces needed to be pulled out to hand to different parts of the Commission. The second bucket of work would be to start to compile the contact list. This is not outreach yet but getting a list of organizations and individuals going. That work would come back to the July meeting to have a more robust conversation on next steps for engagement. Additional work that she could see needing to be done at this point between now and July is planning Hispanic Heritage Month activities. She noted for the entire Commission to start brainstorming on the Fire Department project based on the earlier presentation. Commissioner Peterson thought it would be useful if all the Commissioners thought of the Fire Department project based on feedback earlier but maybe two people could take the lead on that and work a little closely with Battalion Chief Halverson on developing a plan. Ms. Olson thought if there could be brainstorming with the Battalion Chief but making sure that comes back before the Commission for the actual planning and everyone can have input. Chair Beltmann thought there was a lot that needed to be done between the June and July meetings, maybe all the Commissioners could brainstorm on ideas and in July have two people work with Battalion Chief Halverson to bring thoughts and ideas back to the August meeting. Commissioner Peterson thought the Commission would be more active if there were two key core members driving that. Commissioner Bolinger asked for clarification on the open meeting laws regarding groups working on projects outside of the meeting. She wondered if emails can be sent between Commissioners.