HomeMy WebLinkAbout12.07.1976IIUtlAN RELATIONS COI.!IIISSION
AGENDA
December 7 , L97 6 7:30 p.m CITY HALL
OLD BUSIIi ESS
1. Approval of September 7,
2.. Res i gnati ons
NE}I BUSIIIESS
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1976 minutes
Re: Housing survey and apartment occupancy
illlP.C Chai rperson
Conference - Larsen & liarlow
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Lorrai ne Fi sher, ilRA,
b), l arge famil ies.
Election of oermanent
ReDor't on Spri no Hil l
f.ltl RC membershi p drive
MiIRC BusiJess l\4eeting - 9n/76
Abserlt:
Guest:
Grant, I,lalfiDod, IUalley
Sister Judy - United FaEn Inlcrkers Liaison
Sister Judy
Warlted t! call the plight of the migrant rlorker to our attention and the need fortte urrion. Sc[re statj-stics she gave us:
--average incone $3,000 a year, per fanily; deati rate 125* higher than the no::n;
average education Ettr grade; no fircney for housirg or heaLth care i no political
ijlvolvqnent because they are transient; 78 of Calif. Corporations control 758 of
the til1ab1e land in California e.g. Urrited FrLrit Gro\^ers; average life elpec-
tancry 49 years; fbur people availabLe for each rob and you can always filC
scrxeone qfio wilL r+ork for less; election ballots have to be prilted i-n nine
languages i:r spite of the idea that ndgrant problsns on].y irrvolve Ch-icanos;
corporations import uorkers at $ri11;800,000 ctril&en il Californla rnork along-
side tleir parerts to suppler€nt farnily irtoare; l-,000 uorkers are killeddirectly or indirecEly btz lEsticides each year--union trying to institute
safety procedures.
-Chav'ez
I union fighting to irrplenrent r4lcrker contraqts and a union n:n hiringhal1. Agri business has never been unionized.
-Iakevood Comnnity College .was goinq to shc,r^, film "E ightfug for otrr Lives",
a social docu[rentary, and ttrere was to be a fa.::n v;orkers gattrering irr t]re T.C.
early Ootober. '
General Business
Discussion . . future nEke up of ccrmfssion; future role in ccrnru:nity.
Secretarlz Iarsen will write Manager l4i11er. Adrrise him of ttre follovring 6rrrrissiondecj.sions and as)< him to inplorent with the City Oor:nci1 :
-Angnd b1'-laws to provide for quarterly neetillgs iI septenber, Decq-.ber, I,Iarchard June, and,/or at the call of the Chair or vice-chair. oay and place will bethe sane.
--Anend by-Ia,vs to seven ccnmissioners.
-AFpoinfirEnts for paul !6ery, cecilia l,ralfiDod., Jim Mallq,z, arxl peter vanderpoelocpired Ar:gust 31, J.976.
-Janet Kanpll- qairee.T.,. i. resigni,g. Vice_c,air Fletcher wi11 act as Chairpro tsn until foEnal elections in-Decenrber.
--JarEt Grant tras resigred.
--{eelia l4ahrDod has noved out of the area.
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j}&c l4onthly r,betils,Septsrber 7, 1976
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--Request reappointrEnt for Jjm laa].ley and Maria Larsen
Ocnmission make up for 76/77, presupposing t:eappojntment for l"ra11ey and IarsenwtlI be . . . Malley, lrarloi^r, Fletcher, Banks, Iarsen. ltris will give us a quonnn
urvler the t1z 1aw anen&rent.
Ide wil-l- irlitiate a carpaign to get candidates for nenbership to fill r:no<pired
terms of Grant and Kanpf ttrrough August 31, 1977. Suggeslion . . . check out. past
nembers and see if they r,'ou.ld be w:iIIing to accept reap[:oi:ntnrent to csrmission
under new neetj-ng set up.
Ieague of l,li-nnesota Hrrnan Rights Ccrnn-issions dues have been ilcreased for t}efiscal year 76-77; bal-ance to I'{aplatood 97.71. Mction carried to pay balance.
fletcher, l,larlcrrrr r Idrsen authorized to go to Sprirg tlill &nferenoe being
conducted b[, League of t'd-nnesota llwnn Rights connissions. october.
I,trer<t neeting Decqnber 7, 19'16. Will be a joi-nt reetirrg bet\^een the lt{apla,uood
IIRA and the MHXC. .&rong discussion itsns w:ill be tlre housi_ng survey and
aparErent occupancy b1z large fanilies.
l,laria Iarsen
. Secretar], ko Tsn