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ROSEVILLE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION MINUTES OF MEETING OF AUGUST 4, 2009 ROSEVILLE CITY HALL ~ 6:30PM PRESENT: Etten, M. Holt, Jacobson, Lenz, Pederson, Ristow, Stark, Willmus ABSENT: Hiber, D. Holt STAFF: Brokke, Anfang INTRODUCTIONS/ROLL CALL/PUBLIC COMMENT 1. No Public Comment Julia Jacobson was approved as the youth representative to the Parks and Recreation Commission by the Roseville City Council in July. Julia introduced herself and spoke of her interests in volunteering and her experiences with the Parks and Recreation LIT program and other recreation programs and events. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – JUNE 9, 2009 MEETING 2. Commission Recommendation:. Minutes for the June 9, 2009 meeting were approved unanimously PARKS and RECREATION SYSTEM MASTER PLAN UPDATE 3. Brokke introduced Michael Schroeder as the project lead from LHB. Brokke also provided Master Plan background information and reviewed the community advisory group structure. Schroeder introduced the process to be used in updating the Roseville Master Plan. Schroeder explained that LHB appreciates the importance of this project and realizes its impact on the future of a community and understands the need to provide a process that is steeped in community engagement. Schroeder talked to the expertise that resides in the current staff and capitalizing on this to modify the work plan to be more responsive to what the community and staff bring to the process. The Master Planning process will provide a means to convene citizens to talk about the possibilities of parks and recreation in Roseville. The LHB philosophy is to work with citizens to better define their community. Questions and comments by Commissioners followed: Etten inquired into how will we get people at the community meetings … we need to do a better job than the outcome of the recent community budget meetings. Willmus suggested using information from previous community meetings to encourage those o folks to attend. Lenz suggested looking at interest niches in the community and tapping into their expertise. o Schroeder commented that it might make sense to; o divide the community into quadrants or sectors host listening sessions for special interest sectors utilize a “Meeting in a Box” to take the information to the community at the locations where residents gather provide day care to encourage attendance Brokke mentioned that the process will continue to gather information from recent planning process and take into consideration previous planning. Bob Willmus, Gale Pederson and Dave Holt were recommended to represent the Commission on the Citizen Advisory Team with Jim Stark being an alternate.