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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 11,2024 Page 15 Mayor Roe recessed the meeting at approximately 8:00 p.m., and reconvened at approximately 8:08 p.m. Mayor Roe opened the meeting for public comment. Public Comment Mayor Roe offered an opportunity for public comment. Ms.Jeena Gurung Vomhof, HRIEC Commissioner Ms. Gurung Vomhof stated she liked the conversation and back and forth between the Council. She explained she is the only member that wants compensation, and she wanted the Council to give that as an option. She is a mom to two kids and has to answer to her husband by going to the meeting for two to three hours so she thought if she had compensation, she could do more because she knows she will be compensated for her time, and she can provide to her family. Also,being a business owner in the community, she gets contacted by many people about the commissions and how it works and asks about compensation as well. She explained they want to give back to the City but do need compensation for that because they need babysitters. Mr. David Tidball, HRIEC Commissioner Mr. Tidball expressed his appreciation for the seriousness the Council is taking in this discussion. He was at the joint meeting in February where the Commission had a chance to talk to the Council. He explained he has been taking notes and a couple of notions he would like to share is that he heard some things about evaluative processes that he had not heard before. Talking about Culture Brokers and wanting a group of citizens to follow up on what the City is doing with its DEI processes, policies, and things like that. Personally, he thought that was a good idea, but the Commission specifically toned that down in the new scope because the folks that had history on the Commission indicated it was not something they had been doing in the past. The second thing was about human rights is not so much about regulating that as promoting it.Again,the educated piece of that and simply holding that up as an important thing seems valuable to him and as far as the Commission goes, might be another aspect of how the Commission's work can be structured. Mr. Tidball stated the thing that interests him, that he has not heard about, is that several Commissioners at the last meeting noted how much of what the Commission has put in its scope document is what came out of the aspirations process. The kind of community that people think Roseville aspires to involves the kind of work that the Commission talked about in the scope document. There may be a way for the City,because the aspirations are going to have to be implemented on an ongoing basis, somebody is going to have to have input on an ongoing basis as to how that happens, how broad a scope of input you get into seeing, and how that happens. Mr. Tidball stated it seems to him, working with that content which