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City of RosevilleEquity & Inclusion <br />GARE Team <br />Upon a recommendation of the Human <br />The GARE team is meeting biweekly to <br />Rights, Inclusion and Engagement <br />share information as well as to explore <br />Commission, the City Council, key staff <br />several actions the city can take as it relates <br />members and various city commissions will <br />to racial equity. Currently the team is <br />be conducting a Community Engagement <br />reviewing the Action Plan in anticipation of <br />Assessment. The assessment is produced <br />working with a consultant. This entails <br />and developed by Nexus Community <br />reviewing the concepts, intent and practice <br />Engagement Institute. <br />of what was put into the plan and identifying <br />any areas where we are struggling or see <br />The purpose of the assessment is to <br />opportunities to update the plan. <br />determine where there is agreement, <br />disagreement and/or any tension as it relates <br />Energy Action Team <br />to the city’s community engagement efforts. <br />Recruitment is underway for members of the <br />It can be used to assess where strengths and <br />Energy Action Team, which is a group of <br />weaknesses lie, and it serves to begin a <br />community members tasked with working <br />conversation as well as deepen <br />with Xcel Energy and its partners to <br />conversations already occurring surrounding <br />establish recommendations for sustainability <br />city engagement efforts.This assessment <br />goals and strategies. Communities of color <br />will serve as a bench mark for future efforts. <br />are disproportionately impacted and have <br />not always benefited from climate and clean <br />energy programs. With this in mind, staff <br />will be reaching out to businesses, <br />community groups and other partners to <br />assemble this group of community members <br />with a focus on a team that reflects the <br />diversity of the Roseville community. Part <br />of the recruitment effort will be to reach out <br />to and those frontline communities which <br />are impacted as well as refugee <br />organizations in order to be intentional about <br />achieving participation, and input from <br />traditionally underrepresented groups. <br />Community Engagement Assessment <br />Civic engagement should include strategies <br />to make sure that all voices in a community <br />are heard as part of inclusive decision- <br />making. These strategies can increase the <br />extent to which residents are able to <br />influence or control decisions that affect <br />their lives. Traditional engagement activities <br />and communication channels have <br />historically not reached all residents, and in <br />particular specific segments of our <br />population, including people of color. <br />