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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 22, 2024 Page 5 never has or never would try to work through something without engaging City staff. She thought the Commission was a conduit for the information. Vice-Chair Becker thought that is why the wording states “may serve as an advocate”, because that is where the Commission comes together and discusses these things because there are multiple voices and perspectives to be heard. She thought it was important that the Commission holds a space for that conversation and dialogue and that the Commission may have to advocate for the individual which the Commission would then present to the City Council as an issue that maybe the City can resolve. She indicated the Council was correct about the wording “involving the City” but it might be that the City might in some way support change. She thought there was probably some language adjustments that still needed to be made. Mayor Roe thought, as an example of something the City may have thought about as hypothetical during the drafting process, was the notion that if through the receipt of individual people’s issues over time, and if the Commission sensed a trend about a particular type of infraction against somebody’s human rights seems to be happening a lot in the community, perhaps then the Commission could say, not specifically advocating on behalf of the individual, but explaining the issue seems to be in the forefront of the community and the Commission has had some discussions with possible solutions by the City and then make recommendations to the City in that regard. The Commission concurred. Councilmember Schroeder wondered why the Commission removed the wording “Perform other duties and function as directed by the City Council.” Commissioner Tidball explained he would not object to it being in there but the paragraph right before that pretty much says how the Commission functions on a regular basis. One would think in that whole process, whatever the Council wanted the Commission to do or whatever the Commission felt it should be doing, should all be taken care of. Councilmember Schroeder explained the Council is trying to have consistency in the formats of all the Commissions. Commissioner Tidball thought if it helps in the whole process to have that sentence in there, he did not see why the Commission would object. The sentence was not put in there because it seemed redundant to what the Commission was writing. Councilmember Groff tried to be involved in the discussion but was having audio difficulties. Qbhf!78!pg!354