HomeMy WebLinkAboutLeague Annual Meeting 1-League Annual Meeting Informal Notes June 1985
Krieger
Special Projects for local commissions. Activities and new ideas .
Activities
1. No Fault cases
2. Role play
3. Community education; e. g.
a. School programs e.g. civics classes
b. Seminars, training sessions (civil servants and business firms)
4. Your city' s AA and EEO programs; check them out
5. Work with other commissions
6. Be visible to your legislators; write, call, check out.
7. Brochures
8. Job share activities, in conjunction with other services within
our community for the hiring of the physically handicapped.
His community did this and matched 52 persons with 25 companies;
22 of them were hired.
9. Networking
10. Attend public hearings on HR oriented issues
Civic Activities
1. UN Day. October 24th is the 40th anniversary of its founding;
what can we do as a commission to bring that day to public attention.
2. Black History month - February
3. Local HR award; play it up in the newspapers. Create visibility for
commission.
4. Adopt a village in Africa or something similar
Awareness Factors
1. Recoginize we are volunteers; before commitment to an activity
consider family, work and other involvement, including emergency
situations that could impact.
2. Have official, municipal support.
3. Be aware of how community would support something
4. Scope of the project on your community.
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5. Get other community agencies to help
6. Planning
a. Objectives
b. Persons responsible (how many, delegation of specific responsi-
bilities)
c. What resources are we going to need; what materials are we going
to need; logistics
d. How much time is it going to tkae.
AFTER you have all that information you can then make up your schedule.
Make Government work for you
How to create a solid relationship with school district, county, munici-
pal and other forms of government
1. Be active
2. Get to know
3. Know issues which impact on those entities
4. Make connections
5. Stick to the subject
6. Nurture relationship
7. Call your Council together
8. Know your council people
Ideal -- to have a council person present at your staff meeing. It
gives them "ownership" of the issues. Every year different person
could attend.
How to be active by keeping your council happy
1. KNow ground rules (check your ordinance)
2. Stock to the rules or get them changed
3. No surprises; keep everyone informed
4. Everyone owns the issue
5. Forage ahead
6. Don' t forget the press
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Bill Davis
Networking: Resources within our communities
Justice committees (of our churches) ; CARE; GREENTAPE; community food
shelves; Jaycess; Fraternal orders; churches; council/manager; organizations
of professional men and professional women; senior citizens council;
American Legion; Knights of Columbus ; VETS; realty association; pro-
fessional associations; Community service department; public relations
units of major city firms ; service units of the city; AA units of our
school district.
How many of these organizations have we contacted to make ourselves
visible?
1. Speakers Bureau (organizations are looking for ideas and concepts)
2 . Have speakers in to speak to us about their causes or organizations.
3. Media. Put media on the mailing list. Let them know who is involved
in the different issues; write your own press releases; write letters
to the editor
4. Rotate members of the city council or staff person; invite them to
meetings. Make sure they are on our mailing list, .
�- 5. Carry ID cards. Use them in your NFG cases etc.
6. View media as allies; just the threat of the media can get action;
neighboring communities can be "threatened" too.
7. Update AA city plan. Identify recruitment resources for them.
That would be non binding.
8. How about employee comparable worth studies? County government
working on their pay equity plan.
T.C. Human Rights Area Coalition; religious and community leaders
gather every once in a while; recently conducted a training session
for clergy; hook up with them.
Commissioner
Priorities
1. 1450 caseload backlog. Those cases filed with the Department prior
to 1983. 414 remaining; by September 1985 there will be no backlog.
Closing cases as fast as they are coming in.
2. Permanent contract compliance rules. No support. 1985 will be the
`- legislative issue. Economic impact.
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3. Charge processing policies and procedures. Consistency.
Commissioner is no longer the super enforcement officer to which
everything must come. Charges are handled by enforcement officers.
Delegate responsibilities.
Commissioner is an image creator. Working with the legislator,
constituent groups, media, service groups
4. Improving HR language
5. Counties could become HR commissions. More effective for dealing
with problems on a local level.
6. Department is action orientated not reaction orientated.
87% of Department staff made or exceeds standars .
Want to establish a permanent set of rules for the department and the
NFG process .
Things that need to be done
Introduction of the Waiver. (An individual can waive his/her rights
without the specific rights they are waiving being identified. Wants
to change this. )
Could not have accomplished her priorities if she had not been able to
reach out to communities like ours.
The department now has the ability to close cases.
The department has eight new employees.
Put in performance standards. Have ten days in which to process a charge.
Must account for not doing so.
Screening cases before bringing them into the system. If there is
potential for NF send them out. If they do not meet special criteria
they do not get into the system.
Determination of cause is now within 90 days rather than 180.
Maria Larsen
Maplewood