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<br />Regular City Council Meeting <br />Monday, March 11, 2024 <br />Page 12 <br />Councilmember Schroeder explained regarding going to the meeting or watching the meetings, <br />which is what she has been doing, the Commissioners feel the Council does not know what the <br />Commission is doing, which for her is not true. She also thought the rest of the Council <br />understands and knows what the Commission is doing. It is not like the Council is ignoring it <br />and the Council does feel that the work is important and pays attention to it. She thought it was <br />important for the Council to all be on the same page about this. <br />Councilmember Schroeder stated Ms. Olson has a lot of input because she is involved in so <br />much in the City and would be an asset during these discussions. She also noted people are <br />being heard. She suggested more work needs to be done on this and the subcommittee could <br />work with staff and come up with some more thoughts. There were a lot of ideas that went <br />around at this meeting, and she could see that everyone is not on the same page. She thought <br />it was important that the Council needed to be on the same page and that is one of the first <br />things to do. <br />Councilmember Etten suggested the Council wait for any ideas to come forward from the <br />HRIEC meeting in March before the subcommittee works on anything else. <br /> Mayor Roe stated it would be good to get some sort of synopsis of tonight’s discussion fairly <br />quickly for both the Council and Commission to review to make sure the thoughts and <br />proposals made do not get lost and make sure everyone has a chance to respond to those. He <br />reviewed a possible outline that Ms. Olson could send out to everyone for discussion moving <br />forward. <br /> Councilmember Strahan appreciated Councilmember Schroeder’s interest in getting the <br />Councilmembers all on the same page, but she thought right now it felt like there are three <br />people who are open to disbanding this commission and two are pretty passionate not to <br />disband. She did not see a common ground on that. <br />Mayor Roe stated that he has not expressed interest in disbanding the Commission. He is <br />interested in making sure that whatever the Council does is in the best interest of the City, best <br />for the people involved, and ultimately, the best outcome for the community. He does not <br />know what that is, so he cannot say. <br />Mr. James indicated the Commission is going to keep functioning as it has been so the Council <br />can take as long as it needs to make the right decisions. The HRIEC is willing to do that if that <br />is what the Council wants and if there is an end to it, the Commissioners all understand that it <br />might happen. <br />Mayor Roe thought more or less that was what the Council was saying. He indicated the <br />Council wants to be respectful and does not want to say continue doing what you are doing if <br />some aspect of that just does not seem to be fitting with what the Council has been talking <br />about. He did not want the Commission to continue to do these things if the Commission does <br />not think it made sense to spend a lot of time on it. He thought whatever is in the works at the <br />Qbhf!95!pg!354 <br /> <br />