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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05/01/2001 Maplewood Human Relations Commission May 1, 2001 Minutes Members present: Gordie Heininger, Rita Ander, Tammy Nadzieja, Elmo Mattox, Donna Brown and ex-officio Colleen Callahan. lk lembers not present: Carol Cude and Joan Wurdeman Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Vice Chair Rita Ander, at 7:10 pm. II. Approval of Minutes: A motion was made, by to approve the April meeting minutes as documented. Seconded by Elmo. Minutes were approved as written. III. Approval of Agenda: May meeting agenda additions: 1. New Business addition: Timing - requested by Elmo 2. New business addition -National Night Out give away - requested by Tammy 3. Change to Assignments: Loudi to be at City Hall for review of multi-cultural games on May 14th, not May 16th. Elmo made a motion to approve the agenda with above noted revisions. Donna seconded the motion. The agenda stands approved as amended. IV. Old Business: A. Access Update/Discussion - Owned by Joan. Changes discussed on the revised draft of the letter to be sent to businesses regarding the Accessibility project. The following changes were requested: switch order of paragraphs three and four. Remove the last sentence of paragraph six, "This increases your liability and decreases market share." Move paragraph five to the back of paragraph two for combination of paragraphs. Combine the last two paragraphs. Amend paragraph four, sentence two, to read: "Your business was randomly selected as one of the sights for the study". Colleen needs all reports and names of locations from the study as soon as possible so the letter can be sent. Gordie moved to send the letter with above noted changes. Donna seconded the motion - and it was approved with changes. B. Objectives and Mission - Owned by Gordie. Table until June meeting, and add to June agenda. Gordie needs information from Rita. Gordie is looking for the following information: qualifications to obtain low income housing, Section 8 and public housing criteria, barriers to new developments, and tax credits to developers. Human Relations Commission Minutes May 1, 2001 Page 2 IV. Old Business: - continued C. Poster Contest Presentation Schedule - Owned by All. Discussed presentation of awards as follows: Tri-District - presentation to be held during general assembly on Friday, May 4, 2001 at 2:00 pm. Those attending will be Gordie Heininger, Robert Cardinal, Andrew (from Premier Bank) and Joe Fraser (from GTN). Carver Elementary - Presentation on June 5 at 2 pm. Elmo and Gordie will follow up with school. Gordie to contact the Mayor Cardinal and Colleen will call Andrew, to coordinate attendance. Hill Murray - Joan to follow up. Donna will check with Joan to see if there is a date set. Valley Crossing - Colleen sent E-mail to winners mother. There has been no response. Colleen will follow up. Colleen will send thank you to the girl scouts in North Saint Paul. Joe Fraser, of GTN, would like to interview Human Relations Committee members regarding the poster contest on either May 16 or May 22. Gordie will be one of the representatives. Rita will check her schedule to be the other potential representative. Gordie and Rita to follow up with Colleen regarding the date. Certificates are ready and need to be signed by Joan. Colleen will have the certificates in her office. Colleen will be picking up the checks on Friday. D. Poster Contest Format Discussion: Owned by All. Questions at hand: 1. Do we expand to cover all of district 622? 2. Do we allow Premier Bank an opportunity to expand their offering to cover our needs? 3. Do we partner with other Maplewood organizations to raise money in support of a scholarship? 4. Do we change the scope to include a scholarship at high school level? 5. Do we offer more prizes, group prizes, etc. (Example - pizza party to winning class at each school) 6. Do we have time to change for next year? Human Relations Commission Minutes May 1, 2001 Page 3 D. Poster Contest Format Discussion - continued Discussion was held surrounding above questions. Concluded that we will table until next meeting. Tammy will put together proposal for expanding the scope of the Contest. All details would need to be finalized by November for letters to be sent in January. Colleen will follow up and determine if Oakdale and North Saint Paul have Human Relations Commissions and if so, if they would be interested in a joint venture regarding the contest. E. Human Rights Commission - owned by Joan - tabled in Joan's absence. V. New Business: A. Maplewood In Motion (MIM) Article Sign-up: The business pages will continue through the summer months. Elmo will continue to contribute that page. For the July and August MIM HRC space, we will use state events calendar. For September, Colleen will substitute an article Donna had written last year, that was not used. B. In-Service Opportunity - Loudi will be available to teach the National Night Out games on Monday, May 14th. The meeting will be at 6:30 pm, at City Hall. Those available to attend: Donna, Rita, Colleen and Tammy. C. Timing - as requested by Elmo: Proposal that the agenda items need to have time frames added so that we do not get off track and we can establish an finish target time of 8:30. The following suggestions were made: 1. Set times at the beginning of the meeting when the agenda is reviewed. 2. Have agenda items sent to Colleen ahead of time so that agenda cannot be changed the night of the meeting. Colleen would state preliminary times next to all agenda items before agenda was distributed. 3. Have all agenda items stopped after designated period of time with the following options: a) table topic, b) assign to a specified commission member for further research, or; c) extend discussion a n agreed upon amount of time. Chair would be timekeeper. Elmo moved that Colleen would assign times to the agenda for the June meeting as an experiment. Rita seconded the motion. Human Relations Commission Minutes May 1, 2001 Page 4 V. New Business: - continued D. National Night Out Idea- as requested by Tammy. Tammy shared a Friendship bag example with the group. It contained phrases about friendship along with items in support of the phrase. Examples: Band-Aid - For healing hurt feelings, yours and others. Candle - To remind you to share your light with others. Each commission member is to come, to the June meeting, with ideas of items that could go in the bags. Keep this geared toward kids, preferably no candy. Additionally, we discussed using some of the left over items from last year. A decision will need to be made whether to do the Friendship bag or play the games. Think about your availability for shifts for National Night Out, August 7th. We will need to set the schedule at the next meeting. VI. Reports: none listed. VII. June Agenda Items: A. National Night Out - Friendship Bag - All B. National Night Out - Schedule - All C. Poster/Essay Contest Proposal - Tammy D. Objectives and Mission Statement, Affordable Housing - Gordie VIII. Future Topics: A. Peace Campaign Review/Discussion - Rita B. Accessibility Project - All IX. Adjournment - Gordie moved to adjourn the meeting. Donna seconded the motion. Meeting was adjourned at 8:45 p.m. June Assignments: 1. Send all reports and names of locations of Accessibility study to Colleen - Joan 2. Public housing information to Gordie - Rita 3. Contact the Mayor Cardinal regarding Carver awards presentation on June 5, at 2 pm. - Gordie 4. Call Andrew regarding Carver awards presentation on June 5, at 2pm. - Colleen. 5. Follow-up on Valley Crossing award recipient presentation - Colleen 6. Send letter to North Saint Paul girl scouts - Colleen Human Relations Commission Minutes May 1, 2001 Page 5 June Assignments: - continued 7. Follow up with Colleen regarding the date for GTN interview. - Gordie and Rita 8. Make arrangements with Colleen to sign certificates for Poster Contest participants - Joan 9. Contact Oakdale and North Saint Paul regarding Human Relations Commissions and participation in Contest. - Colleen 10. Prepare Contest proposal. - Tammy 11. Bring ideas for Friendship bag - All • 12. Contact Colleen with agenda changes for June meeting by Tues., May 29 - All Next Meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at Maplewood City Hall, at 7pm. Respectfully Submitted, Tammmy Nadzieja Acting Secretary, HRC