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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, January 22, 2024 Page 8 might not be useful sometimes, just that it gives the Commission the flexibility to determine when they are useful and why they are useful. Councilmember Etten asked if there are other things that the Commission pulled out for that kind of reason. Are there are specific things that the Commission determined was not being done or not being done very often and felt strange to have outlined in the scope, so it was pulled out. Vice-Chair Becker thought it was specifically how it was outlined because she remembered her first or second Commission meeting, seeing the workplan, and saying to herself “where is evaluating and where is the Commission advising and engaging”. Those three words to her was a disconnect. She thought engagement was a big word, that the Commission better be engaging or how are they even affected if the Commission is not engaging. She explained she did not even want to see engage in the scope because that is something the Commission better be doing and built into their words. She explained every fall, the Commission is actually going to do a consensus workshop and decide the goals for the year, not the workplan, and those goals have to come from their words, the Commission’s values, and mission. The Commission wants to be ambassadors and advisers and advocates. If those are the Commission’s three guideposts, that allows the Commission, in whatever state, whatever members to have a clear idea of what the objectives for the year are going to be based on the goals, based on those three things. She thought when the Commission was trying to do that before, those three ABC’s just felt like they were not in line with what the Commission was hoping to accomplish. She thought retention was going to come when people feel like they are a part of the workplan, a part of the goal setting, part of the community, and have a feeling of participatory experience. She also thought the Commission has to practice doing that work right now. Mayor Roe explained when this was originally written, the City did not have the capability as strongly as the City does now. The City had not gone through the GARE process and had not done a lot of things so the expectation of the Council, at the time, was to give things to the Commission to do. Mayor Roe noted that Commissioner Francke had another obligation and had to leave the meeting. Commissioner Francke left the meeting at 7:25 p.m. Mayor Roe explained an observation he had was that it seemed like in the organization of the draft, establishment and membership are handled by the first paragraph and some of the second and third paragraphs get into that purpose area. He noted this is an organizational thing so he did not want to dwell on that but certainly, through conversations, that can be worked through to get some consistency. The other part is the human rights aspect was not enough in the forefront of those two or three paragraphs so many a recommendation would be as Qbhf!81!pg!354