HomeMy WebLinkAbout06/03/1975 MHRC Minutes - Business Meeting June 3 , 197
Present : Kampf, Banks , Malley , Lowery , Ashworth , Mahmood , Larsen ,
Grant , Vanderpoel
General Business
Minutes of May 5 , 1975 : Secretary had not had the time to put them
in proper order ; requested additional time
for rewrite ; granted ! Will be mailed to Don Ashworth along with
minutes of this meeting for the usual distribution .
State Board : New Chairperson for State Board of Human Rights --Earl
Craig . There are three citizen and two attorney
vacancies . . . are any of . us interested?
SPECIAL NOTE: No meeting in July . . . next MHRC meeting August 12 .
Don Ashworth
HRA : Has gone thru incorporation procedure . Looking at various
types of funding . Planning a session with Council in the near
future to talk about where the Authority should be going to insure it
will meet with Council approval . Members would like to tour Givens
project . Mrs . Givens will conduct such a tour on June 18th .
Budget : Certification of City budget not till October but figure
work should be started now . Don will have proposed budget
ready for commission review at the August meeting .
i•tain item of discussion . . future goals and objectives
Commission can be active or reactive . . . we must chose which way
to go . We do not want to "create " problems . . . must chose
direction . Secretary asked to obtain Annual Reports of other
Commissions as we need to explore and research what they are doing .
Tossed around :
--Should we concentrate our energy on a community social services
program? Is there an actual need for social services in our
community? Is there sufficient cooperation between the City and
the School District so social service's could be housed in Gladstone
School , for instance .
--Teachers are unhappy with the compulsory human rights certification ;
should we check into that?
--Girls athletic programs vs boys with an eye to funding discri
mination ?
-more-
2-MNRC June 3 , 1975 .
-What about AAP within the School District? What positive steps
have been taken to implement if any? How many minorities are
employed? Has anyone been assigned the responsibility for AAP
in the school district? Is there a viable HR Commission in the
school district? Does the school administration see any problems
in the area of human relations ? How is the sensitivity training
required by law received? What is being done to review the
curriculum? What about the status of Tony Buhl ' s survey . . . where
does " it" gg from here? Attitudes toward "certification " ?
The HRC , administration and educators of district 622 will be con-
tacted by Janet Grant; ditto 623 by Janet Kampf . Joe Banks will
contact the HRA of the MEA to get their feelings. They will bring
a report to the August meeting and we will decide if the Commission
should make AAP, certification and other related matters in the school
district a major concern for the next Commission year .
NEXT MEETING AUGUST 12 , 1975 . Same place and time .
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Maria Larsen , Secretary
MAPLEWOOD HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION