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<br />Regular City Council Meeting <br />Monday, May 13, 2024 <br />Page 11 <br />A lot of it is to include some learning opportunities staff has talked about such as getting <br />people up to speed, bringing in people from different departments so the group knows what <br />is going on in different areas, and so it is more rounded rather than just focusing on certain <br />areas in the city. If the Council is leaning more towards that committee version, the <br />resolution used to create that committee is where the specific parameters would be laid out. <br />She asked if that is the direction the Council is leaning towards. <br />Councilmember Groff indicated he would be concerned about removing the HRIEC from <br />commissions. He would probably vote against that. He thought this was great right now <br />and everyone is all onboard with it. Five years from now, there will be different people in <br />those seats and will probably care less if that committee would disappear. The Commission <br />is not so easily gotten rid of. That is why he would stick with the commission model. He <br />thought the bad part was that it sounds like it does not give staff the information wanted or <br />needed so it and does not work as well as that. <br />Mayor Roe thought this could certainly start as a Commission and evolve, if needed. That <br />is one way it could be dealt with because the City does not know for sure. He thought that <br />might be one way for the City to ease its way into it and see if some of the concerns being <br />thought about are actually turning up. This could also start as a committee or hybrid and <br />see how that goes. He thought if there was an action by Council to pass a resolution to <br />initiate something, it would be problematic for that thing to go away without further action <br />by the City Council. An ordinance is a permanent thing, and a resolution is not that far <br />away from it necessarily. <br />Councilmember Groff thought transparency was very important. He understands that some <br />people are uncomfortable being on camera and especially in this Commission. But the <br /> word ‘secret’ was used, and he feels like the public is going to look at this as a secret <br />organization that is within the City, unless the City does a lot of public information out <br />there. Otherwise, he does not think this will be looked at as a commission. Nobody knows <br />much about the MAC, the group that works with it does, but the rest of the community <br />does not. <br /> Councilmember Etten thought ‘secret group’ was a little far and he would pick up on <br /> Councilmember Groff’s thing that it does not give staff what it needs so he would not want <br />to create a new group that is not getting the City where it wants to go. If the City has some <br />of that hybrid model, posting agendas and having meeting minutes afterwards, things like <br />that, there is that sense of the City needing to be right there overseeing these. He indicated <br />the MAC has yearly meetings with the Council and there are ways to keep that as a part of <br /> the City’s formal process while getting what he thought was the most robust information <br />the City can get, the most important and authentic feedback. For him, if the City is not <br />going to get what it wants out of this, then the City is shooting itself in the foot from the <br />start again. <br />Qbhf!::!pg!354 <br /> <br />