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Attachment A Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 4, 2021 Page 16 669 Councilmember Willmus indicated where he would start, is to reflect and look in- 670 ward. He wondered if there are things glaringly missing here or are there things 671 that the City has had great success with that, maybe fall off or looked at a little 672 differently. He thought as a core, these priorities are still very valid and are a work 673 in progress. He would look for a little feedback that way. 674 675 Councilmember Etten explained there was substantial discussion the last time about 676 how to engage the community and how much to engage the public. The Council 677 always has public comment as a part of the meeting and maybe this could be in- 678 cluded in the City newsletter as they start zeroing in. 679 680 Councilmember Groff thought it would help to have input at some point from the 681 public. From his experience, he thinks Roseville has changed since the Council did 682 the visioning in 2006. There are a lot of new residents that have moved to the city 683 and he thought that at some point, it might be beneficial to get community input. 684 What he is hearing is the environment and sustainability would be much higher on 685 the list then economic development. He would like more community input, but he 686 does not know what that would look like. 687 688 Councilmember Strahan stated when she looked at this list, the way it is written 689 does not seem very much about the people. She commented that she just finished a 690 cycle of campaigning, at that level it is always about the people. So, the environ- 691 mental sustainability is somewhat removed from the people of Roseville and how 692 they can impact that. There seems to be a great will of people of interest have sig- 693 nificant environment impact and a very large priority. She wondered how it would 694 involve people and how could the community be drawn in. Those did not seem to 695 involve the people of the City of Roseville in the policy. Even the housing can be 696 somewhat removed as well. She wanted to make sure that the City does not remove 697 the people from the policies. 698 699 Mayor Roe thought that is one of the things that needs to be made clear about the 700 document. This is primarily a document that says how the City Council and the 701 staff of the City are going to be spending their time over the next period and where 702 they are not spending their time. The notion being is that, for instance, there was a 703 pretty good discussion last time around about whether there is some kind of priority 704 activity related to public safety and everyone on the Council and staff that partici- 705 pated came to the conclusion that those things are ongoing and do not rise to the 706 level of something the City wants to put in this document. These are the things the 707 Council wants to be focusing on and he thought this is a document to guide the 708 work that the staff and Council do over a period of time and is informed by the most 709 recent Comprehensive Plan update, land use, and housing and also environmental 710 sustainability. There are other policy documents to guide the Council as well. 711 712 Mayor Roe asked where the Council wants to go from here and should there be a 713 more comprehensive discussion. He suggested the Council do a deeper dive into