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Targeted Outreach Your previous positive experience using Brainstorming sessions and Subcommittees is encouraging and your RFP identified a wonderful range of prospective participants and eventual subcommittee members. We will fully support these Brainstorming sessions and the Subcommittees. Our experience with community -based public participation, however, has taught us that the "all call " approach of large Brainstorming sessions and the Subcommittees approach is unlikely to attract authentic participation from underrepresented communities. Regardless of how welcoming or respectful you mean to be, such structures may not attract sufficient representation by elders, youth, people with disabilities, young families, newcomers, people not part of the existing power structure, non -English speakers (17% of Roseville students come from non -English speaking homes and they speak 51 different languages), and so on. For Roseville, that means you wouldn't have those voices contributing meaningfully about the city's future. In addition to the two Brainstorming Sessions and Subcommittee work, we recommend working with the Steering Committee and others to take the results of the stakeholder task above to design a more robust and authentic public input process that will allow you to hear from a broader range of voices throughout your community. From this and consultation with the Steering Committee we would develop a more detailed Outreach Plan (see sections below for more specifics on what this might include.) 0 Deliverable: Outreach Plan and process recommendations, along with regular updates to the Steering Co~nmittee and others as desired Collaborations We recommend you also consider project -specific collaborations to ensure that critical perspectives are being provided by stakeholders such as the County, School District, and Metropolitan Council. Depending on the existing links with the city/Council and thus to the Visioning work, others could include the HRA, city commissions and committees, and possibly other major stakeholder groups or organizations that are not easily or logically represented through the Subcommittee structures. These could be managed by the Steering Committee and openly woven into the process at appropriate points. Deliverable: Interim documents, and then memo documenting Steering Commiitee decisions on any collaborations they wish to form, and how the groups would be engaged in the process Electronic input options are many and varied, and run the gamut from easy, fast, and cheap, to complex, long term, and requiring a significant investment of community (human) resources and money. And, of course, the short - and long -term value to some extent varies accordingly. At minimum, we would recommend gathering supplemental input on specific topics to enrich the Subcommittees' deliberations. This is easily done with web -based surveys and e -mail and web comment options on or linked to the City's website. These could be advertised through traditional means and would be compiled along with other input. Proposai for Rosevilie Community Visioning Support Carroli, Franck & Associates Page 4