Offset Container

I have a root container with a vertical list of container game objects (its a menu list, and each item has text, a graphic, etc). How can I offset this root container so the user can scroll through the list? Should be simple, but I’m having a difficult time since I can’t set the origin/displayOrigin even though I set the bounds of the root container.

I don’t want to just set the y property of the root container because I would like to use this for reference for centering it in the middle of the canvas. Is there something I’m missing, or should I put my current root container in another container, so I can keep this one centered, and then change the y value? Hopefully this makes sense.