Group Calls on Roseville For Better Electronic Communications

The 17-member Civic Engagement Task Force, a special committee of the Roseville Human Rights Commission, presented initial findings to the Roseville Council Monday night, suggesting that the city should improve electronic communications.

The commission, , presented five key recommendations for strengthening the city’s communications and ties with residents. A final report from the commission is expected in about six weeks.

Gary Grefenberg, task force’s leader, said the group considered Roseville’s demographics—a relatively large minority and elderly population and a high number of people living in rental housing—in shaping its findings.

“Our charge was to increase the sense of community by making sure that city government and its activities, programs and services are accessible, understandable and responsive to all,” Grefenberg said.

Here are the task force’s five key recommendations:

1) Commissions should operate in a manner similar to the council.

2) City should use more electronic vehicles of communication, emphasizing two-way communication.

3) Renters and residents in non-single family homes should be incorporated into existing city means of notification.

4) City should facilitate and incorporate neighborhood groups into its communication and decision-making apparatus.

5) City should make available its communications infrastructure to neighborhoods in a collaborative manner.