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Attachment A Minutes Excerpt from 9-14-2020 Roseville City Council Meeting a. Discuss Voting Status of Youth Commissioners Assistant City Manager Rebecca Olson briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request For Council Action and related attachments dated September 14, 2020. Councilmember Willmus asked if the City went forward with allowing Youth Com- missioners to vote, is there something that the City can do to create a city contact method for that individual, city email, etc. so the public would be able to engage with them. Ms. Olson indicated the City does have the ability to create a city email account that the Youth Commissioner would be able to access and would be subject to all of the pertinent data practices. Councilmember Etten indicated in the last discussion, there was mention of talking with the parents and students regarding this. He wondered if that had happened and if so, what came from that discussion. Ms. Olson explained staff did reach out to different current Youth Commissioners and she did not believe any of them wanted staff to talk to their parents. The feed- back received was that some were okay with it while others did not really care and it was not a huge issue with them. After her discussion with the Youth Commis- sioner on the HRIEC, she would be okay with adding any additional liability but also understood that future Youth Commissioners may not be. She suggested the Council give Youth Commissioners a choice whether to be a voting member or not, based on that liability. She indicated there was not a definitive yes or no from any of the current Youth Commissioners. Councilmember Groff asked how other cities addressed the liability issue and were there any discussions with neighboring cities about that issue. He found it ex- tremely interesting that the City of Shoreview would have a yes on the Parks Com- mission and a no on the HRIEC and wondered what the logic to that was. Ms. Olson explained the conversation about Youth Commissioners voting did not come up during her time with Shoreview and during that time, she did not believe there was a Youth Commissioner on their Parks Commission. Ms. Olson noted that often times, votes were not taken and so when Shoreview says they do not have a voting member, there are not many votes that are actually done as the Park Com- mission’s decisions are more consensus based. Councilmember Laliberte indicated at the last meeting where the Youth Commis- sioners were voted in for another term, she had explained it was nice that all of the Youth Commissioners wanted to sign up again. However, that did not give much opportunity to others wanting to be on a Commission but a way for the City to offer this to more youth, would be to add more Youth Commissioners. She thought the numbers of votes would then become a consideration for recommendations being