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August 2, 2021 <br />To: Little Canada City Council Members <br />From: League of Women Voters – Roseville Area [includes Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Little Canada, <br />Maplewood, Roseville] <br />Re: 2020-2021 Equitable Representation Study on Appointed City Boards and Commissions <br />Enclosed please find the report of our study on the equitable representation on city boards and <br />commissions. We hope this is of use to you as you continue your work to increase the diversity of <br />voices contributing to city governance. In November 2020, we sent out 116 surveys to current <br />and some former city-appointed commissioners with response rates varying from 19% to 73% <br />across cities of Falcon Heights, Little Canada, Maplewood and Roseville. Lauderdale currently has <br />no active commissions. Because numbers of commissions vary by city and numbers of <br />commissioners responding also varied, we are not providing city-specific feedback. <br />With these caveats in mind, we hope you might glean useful information from the study. Certain <br />themes ran across all four cities such as commissioners’ pride in their work, the respect shown for <br />one another, and willingness to work together. Across all four cities, commissioners also wanted <br />more diversity of views represented, but recognized the challenge of encouraging community <br />members to get involved in city governance. <br />We look forward to hearing from you and learning with you about ways in which we can reach a <br />broader and more diverse segment of our population and successfully encourage more residents <br />to become involved in city governance. <br /> <br />