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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 11, 2024 Page 5 Councilmember Strahan explained she wanted to challenge the Council as well. If the Council is asking any commission to bring the concerns, that the Commission hears back from the Council. The Council is asking the Commission to be that conduit between the public and the Council, so the Council then must be willing to entertain the options the Commission provided. She explained in the years she has been on the Council, the HRIEC has brought forward for consideration the City paying Commissioners and the Council did not give that any consideration. The HRIEC brought forward for consideration including students from the high school who spend so much of their day in the City but who do not live within the City borders, and the Council did not consider that. Even the changes that were brought a couple months ago about changing the process and focus of the Commission, she felt like the Commissioners were shut down right away. Councilmember Strahan stated the Council has to walk it and be willing to take more time to find out more about it. She felt a lot of those things were brushed away. She noticed that since the Council said no students could be on commissions outside of Roseville residents, there has not been any youth applicants or any youth coming to the meetings. Councilmember Strahan stated the Council has to be willing to also change and address how the Council relates to this particular Commission. She did not think the Council had historically done a good job of making this Commission feel like they belong, and it was disingenuous to acknowledge Do Good Roseville in this process when that group started because they did not feel like they fit on the HRIEC. Mayor Roe indicated he hoped it was not the case that the Council was shutting down the Commission’s suggestions at the last joint meeting. He noted it was an opportunity for the Council to get answers to understand better what was being proposed in some cases because there was a question about how some things were worded and what it meant, and the Council was trying to understand that. He noted that was where he was coming from in trying to be thoughtful about this whole thing. He did not know if he agreed with that characterization specific to this. He thought the Council did have discussions about some of the other things that were mentioned and came to conclusions about them that may not have been the conclusions that people liked. He did not know that the Council could draw the conclusion, necessarily, that because the City continued its existing policy of not having Commission members from outside the city, that is the reason Commission members from within the City are not participating as youth commissioners. Mayor Roe stated he thought the Council was trying to have a conversation and figure out how to move forward. He thought constructive things were said but the Council may not have the answer at this meeting and need to continue to move forward to what an answer might be. He did not know if it is one answer, as it may be a number of different things. That is the perspective he is coming from. He wanted to make sure the Council hears from the public as well because that is part of this discussion. Councilmember Groff indicated he was not married to the term Human Rights. That does not have to be in the title, but he wanted to make sure that diversity and inclusion were included. Qbhf!88!pg!354