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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,November 27, 2023 Page 15 commission to help them work on things and find out how financially it affects the City and other things. When Councilmember Etten talked about getting people together from other commissions to talk about things like sustainability,he actually thought the idea of possibly having all of the chairs or some groups getting together to talk about different things that could work together with the commissions. He was a little disappointed that some commissions did so little, and did think that there could be some cross commission work. He thought there needed to be some discussion at a future meeting and maybe the Council needed to decide what they wanted the commissions to actually do. Councilmember Groff indicated he was very impressed that this got started by Councilmember Etten. He likes what he has heard. He indicated he would want more input on the number of commission meetings, especially if the commission scope is changed, along with the number of members on each commission. Mayor Roe indicated the HRIEC suggests the most substantial changes to their Code so he thought it would make sense to have a joint discussion between the Council and members of the HRIEC at a work session to talk through that. He thought also, in that same conversation for any commission, where the Council is talking about changing membership numbers or number of meetings and the commission did not weigh in on that at all,he would want to make sure the Council has the ability to have that conversation with that commission. Specifically, to the HRIEC, he is very worried because the meeting is the only place where they can really do their business,just like the Council meetings. He noted if the City limits that opportunity, then the commission may not be able to do as much business and the Council needs to understand that. He thought the Commission needed to be able to weigh in on that. He was wondering about the idea of forming a working group that periodically meets that is more informal among the chairs and vice- chairs of each commission and they can set their own agenda and be informal in order to give the Council some insight into environmental issues or things like that. Councilmember Etten and Councilmember Schroeder agreed to work as a subcommittee to work on this item. 8. Council Direction on Councilmember Initiated Agenda Items 9. Approve Minutes Comments and corrections to draft minutes had been submitted by the City Council prior to tonight's meeting and those revisions were incorporated into the draft presented in the Council packet. a. Approve October 23,2023 and November 6, 2023 City Council meeting and the November 6, 2023 EDA Meeting Minutes