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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 11, 2024 Page 7 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 is already an official City project, might give the Council the content guts of what the Council wants the Commission to do. If that is the case, the Council may want to find some type of modified rule structure for this Commission to operate under in order to do a particular kind of work that other Commissions are not called upon to do. Mr. Richard James, HRIEC Chair Mr. James explained he would like to correct a few things he heard tonight that he thought are wrong perceptions. Earlier, Councilmember Etten commented that the way the Commission is setup is not working, he thought that should be what the Commission had was not working. The Council does not know what the Commission has done since November. He indicated the Council does not have any idea and tonight was one of those nights that the Commission was going to tell the Council what the HRIEC has been doing, how the Commission has been restructured, how it organized and reorganized themselves in order to accomplish things, and things the Commission thinks are important. However, since he has been a member of the Commission, since 2019, the Council has not told the Commission what it thinks is important for them to do. The Commission has been coming up with what the members think is important and if it has not matched up with what the Council thinks is important, the Council has not told the Commission that. Qbhf!8:!pg!354