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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,March 11,2024 Page 21 Councilmember Schroeder explained regarding going to the meeting or watching the meetings,which is what she has been doing,the Commissioners feel the Council does not know what the Commission is doing, which for her is not true. She also thought the rest of the Council understands and knows what the Commission is doing. It is not like the Council is ignoring it and the Council does feel that the work is important and pays attention to it. She thought it was important for the Council to all be on the same page about this. Councilmember Schroeder stated Ms. Olson has a lot of input because she is involved in so much in the City and would be an asset during these discussions. She also noted people are being heard. She suggested more work needs to be done on this and the subcommittee could work with staff and come up with some more thoughts. There were a lot of ideas that went around at this meeting, and she could see that everyone is not on the same page. She thought it was important that the Council needed to be on the same page and that is one of the first things to do. Councilmember Etten suggested the Council wait for any ideas to come forward from the HRIEC meeting in March before the subcommittee works on anything else. Mayor Roe stated it would be good to get some sort of synopsis of tonight's discussion fairly quickly for both the Council and Commission to review to make sure the thoughts and proposals made do not get lost and make sure everyone has a chance to respond to those. He reviewed a possible outline that Ms. Olson could send out to everyone for discussion moving forward. Councilmember Strahan appreciated Councilmember Schroeder's interest in getting the Councilmembers all on the same page, but she thought right now it felt like there are three people who are open to disbanding this commission and two are pretty passionate not to disband. She did not see a common ground on that. Mayor Roe stated that he has not expressed interest in disbanding the Commission. He is interested in making sure that whatever the Council does is in the best interest of the City, best for the people involved, and ultimately, the best outcome for the community. He does not know what that is, so he cannot say. Mr. James indicated the Commission is going to keep functioning as it has been so the Council can take as long as it needs to make the right decisions. The HRIEC is willing to do that if that is what the Council wants and if there is an end to it, the Commissioners all understand that it might happen. Mayor Roe thought more or less that was what the Council was saying.He indicated the Council wants to be respectful and does not want to say continue doing what you are doing if some aspect of that just does not seem to be fitting with what the Council has been talking about. He did not want the Commission to continue to do