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Provide a wide variety of housing options in order to retain and attract a diverse mix of people and family types with varying economic statuses, ages, and abilities. Maintain and enhance Roseville as a community with strong, desirable, and livable neighborhoods. Encourage the development of neighborhood identities that build a sense of community and foster neighborhood interaction, as appropriate. DISCUSSION � The City Council is committed to making Roseville a more welcoming community, but that also � requires leadership from residents. At a recent Human Rights Commission sponsored community � forum, nearly 100 attendees shared ideas about this topic. It is important that the City tap this � resource, get those (and other) citizens engaged and increase our efforts to build neighborhoods � and communities of interest around our common interests and goals. � Staff believe that the Human Rights Commission could effectively help to implement the � Imagine Roseville 2025 goals. We want to expand the Commission's focus to increase the sense � of community by fostering understanding and relationships among residents and by ensuring that � our city government and its activities, programs and services are accessible� understandable, and � responsive by to all. � The Roseville Human Rights Commission was established in 1968. Over the years, the Human � Rights Commission has been an important part the Roseville's government, advocating for � human rights issues and addressing specific conditions or situations. Those goals and mission of � the Commission will not change with the added responsibilities. f Expanding the Human Rights Commission's mission gives the City a greater opportunity to f achieve the Imagine Roseville and the new 2030 Comprehensive Plan goals and objectives. It f would support greater diversity awareness and cultural competence and help the City fully f engage all of our residents to feel and be a vital part of our community. From facilitating f community activism and activities, to helping residents to identify and establish neighborhoods f organizations and communications networks to hosting cultural fairs to celebrate our diversity, f this new focus could be a catalyst of change in the community. f Although only one measure of a community's diversity, recent demographic statistics indicate a f growing ethnic diversity in Roseville's population. Sased on 2005-2007 statistics, the US Census ; Sureau reported that: ; • 10% of Roseville residents are foreign born. ; • 12% speak a language other than English at home. The most commonly spoken language : was Spanish. ; • 27% of residents reported that they did not speak English "very well." ; The 2000 Census, reported that 10.5% of residents were some other race than white. ; In 2005, it is estimated that 14.7% of residents are some other race than white. At its April meeting the Human Rights Commission unanimously approved the suggested Page 2 of 3