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The Program Planners' Committee of the Human Rights Committee has developed this preliminary outline to guide the process and issues to be addressed by the Civic Engagement Task Force in the development of a Civic Engagement Framework to be recommended to the Human Rights Commission and the Roseville City Council. The vehicle for the framework's development will be a citizens' task force to be formed by the Roseville Human Rights Commission. The task force will be chaired the co-chairs of the Program Planners Committee of the Human Rights Commission. It is their intent to involve a member of each of the existing Roseville city commissions, as well as other public members: • Ethics • Park Et Recreation • Planning • Police Civil Service • Public Works, Transportation, and Environment Public members will be composed of Roseville residents who have been involved in their community's civic affairs, such as representatives from the Roseville Citizens League and the League of Women Voters, as well as community groups such as the Lake McCarron's Neighborhood Association. Possible Task Force Issues: Develop a Task Force to work with the Human Rights Commission in developing a Civic Engagement Framework for recommendation to the Roseville City Council. The purpose of the Task Force would be to : 1. Study how other municipalities promote and involve residents in civic decision-making and community projects, with some focus on the HRC's new role HRC regarding Neighborhoods and Diversity. • Falcon Heights, Minneapolis, and Minnetonka (recommended by Councilmember Roe): Edina, and Robbinsdale which received an earlier Civic Engagement grant from the MN Department of Human Rights. 2. Assess Current City Practice and Status regarding Neighborhoods and Community Engagement • Determine how various city commissions handle public comment at their meetings. • Determine whether the addresses and e-mail addresses of commission members are available to residents who wish to communicate with individual commission members. • Determine how various commission and city hall address neighborhood involvement and notice, including notification issues. i. Determine policy regarding the posting of meeting agendas and packets, and assess the performance of various city agencies and commissions (Note there have been lapses in the posting of agendas and packets); and ii. Consider the problem of not posting minutes in a timely manner (within thirty days seems very reasonable). Suggest Draft Minutes are better than waiting over 30 or in some cases more than 60 days. 3