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. DISCUSSION <br />. Making Roseville a more welcoming community requires leadership from our residents. At the <br />. recent Human Rights Commission sponsored community forum, nearly 100 attendees shared <br />. many ideas about this topic. It is important that we tap this resource, get those (and other) <br />. citizens engaged and increase our efforts to build neighborhoods around our common interest <br />� and goals. <br />� With the completed Imagine Roseville 2025 strategies, staff believes that the energies of the <br />� Human Rights Commission members could be used more effectively with a change in focus to <br />� Neighborhood outreach and communication and furthering the community awareness of our <br />� growing diversity as well as our shared values. <br />� Utilizing the existing Human Rights Commission as a reconstituted "Neighborhood and <br />� Community Diversity Commission" could provide the community focus and effort needed to <br />� further the Imagine Roseville 2025 goals in these areas. <br />� The Roseville Human Rights Commission was established in 1968 to secure equal opportunity <br />� for all citizens by assisting the state department of human rights. Over the years of its existence, <br />� the Human Rights Commission has been an important component of the Roseville government, <br />� advocating for human rights issues and addressing specific conditions or situations. <br />� The Commission has not been directly involved in human rights complaints since the state <br />� Human Rights Department discontinued referring complaints to cities in the early 1990s. <br />� A Neighborhood and Community Diversity Commission would expand the Human Rights <br />f Commission's mission and give the City a greater opportunity to achieve these goals. It would <br />f support greater diversity awareness and cultural competence and help the City fully engage all of <br />f our residents to feel a vital part of our community. From sponsoring and facilitating community <br />f activities, helping to residents to identify and establish neighborhoods and communications <br />f networks to hosting cultural fairs to celebrate our diversity, this new commission can be a <br />f catalyst of change needed for our community. <br />f Recent demographic statistics indicate a growing diversity in Roseville's population. The US <br />f Census Sureau report based on statistics from 2005-2007: <br />10% of Roseville residents were foreign born. <br />12% spoke a language other than English at home. The most commonly spoken language <br />was Spanish. <br />27% of residents reported that they did not speak English "very well." <br />The 2000 Census, reported that 10.5% of residents were some other race than white. <br />In 2005, it is estimated that 14.7% of residents are some other race than white. <br />At its January meeting the Human Rights Commission discussed the restructuring of the <br />Commission as a part of their strategic plan and goals, and consensually endorsed the concept. <br />Page 2 of 3 <br />
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