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Attachment 4 Regular City Council Meeting Minutes City Hall Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Monday, April 8, 2024 Discuss Feedback Regarding the Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Scope and Duties Assistant City Manager Rebecca Olson briefly highlighted this item as detailed in the Request for Council Action and related attachments dated April 8, 2024. Mayor Roe thanked Ms. Olson for the presentation on the HRIEC feedback to the Council. He expressed his thanks to the Commission for their discussion and feedback and was impressed with the frankness of the conversation, the willingness to discuss, and answer questions the Council was seeking answers to. He wanted the Commission to know how much he appreciated and hoped the Councilmembers appreciate the fact that the Commission had that conversation, it was not an easy conversation, and the outcome does help the process. Councilmember Groff indicated he also watched the meeting and thought it was a very frank, open, and helpful discussion. He also thought it was helpful to understand where the Commission is coming from. He wanted to express appreciation for Ms. Olson’s guidance because it is not an easy task to work with that number of opinions and try to pull it together. He liked where this landed, where this is headed, and the recommendation of Ms. Olson and administration. He also liked the ideas proposed and looks forward to the meeting in May. Councilmember Schroeder thanked staff and the Commission for all of the work done. She wanted to give thanks to the people who were frank, the people who were leading, and those who said good, positive things about ways to make things better. She thought the high level list Ms. Olson went over was exactly what the Council was looking for. Her view is that the Council would take this, because it aligns well with what the Council was thinking in many ways. To her, she wants to get many of these meetings to continue to narrow down to where the City is going to end up. She thought if the Council was going to do this workshop, this might be a good spot to start. There does need to be more work on this list. She wondered if it is not a bad idea to take some of this and take a stab at a purpose statement based on some of this. She thought the purpose was what the Council needed to agree on. With regard to the purpose of this group, she thought the Council had confusion on that as well so if they can come up with an actual purpose of the group, she thought that would go far. Councilmember Etten agreed with the comments. In watching the meeting, he noted the commitment of the Commission, even in their last meeting, to have a rigorous and thoughtful discussion and a commitment to make improvements for the City in how it moves forward. He thanked the Commission for all of that and Ms. Olson for helping facilitate that discussion. He stated a lot of what the Commission came back with are things that fit his general concept and are a great starting point. Things like the SREAP is there but getting back to some of the data and things that have been lost in the last year as the Commission has gone through transitions. The idea of expanding beyond SREAP and talking about equity and inclusion in general, the Council Qbhf!97!pg!354