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Meeting Minutes of May 3 , 1994
Present at Meeting: Marie Koehler, Gordon Heininger, Shelly
Strauss, Mike McGuire, Carol Cude, Karla Sand, Pat
Williamson, Gail Schiff, Sherrie Le.
I . Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 7 : 00
p.m. by Marie Koehler, Chairperson.
II. Agenda Approval: A short discussion of time allotments
for sections of the agenda was held, then it was
approved.
III . Approval of Minutes: The minutes were approved with two
changes.
IV. Old Business
A. Letter review - Gordon's letter was reviewed, and it' s
paragraph order was rearranged, along with the wording
in some parts. A discussion was held about copyrights,
and the quality of the poster copies. The letter will
be sent to 49 businesses.
B. The City Council reviewed and approved the Annual
Report. Marie went to the meeting.
C. Sherrie handed out name badges, which had been
suggested at an earlier meeting. The request was made
to bring them to the Open House.
D. Police internship - Karla reported that she had no new
information about the internship, and perhaps we need
to think about why minorities are at 1% in Maplewood.
We would support a police internship program if one
could be established. If any further information is
found, members are asked to bring it to a meeting.
Gail spoke about a "LEO" group, which focuses on
bringing women and minorities into communities. Gail
will contact them to see if they would be interested.
V. New Business
A. Open House - Everyone brought in posters and handouts
for possible use at the Open House on our table.
Keychains have been ordered (400) . The Bridge Bunch
puppets will perform in the City Council chambers.
Staffing schedule was reviewed and approved.
B. Diversity award - Marie asked us to consider having a
poster contest based on diversity posters, maybe
jointly with the North St. Paul and Oakdale HRCs. A
discussion of an appropriate award was held.
Karla asked why would we do this--what would we do
with the winning poster(s) ? One idea was to use them
on our next annual report.
Gordon will contact a bank about possible funding.
Sherrie will look for letters from past contests so we
can see the criteria.
C. Commission meeting with City Council/Manager - The
City Council and Manager are planning to meet with
every committee, to discuss items of mutual interest.
Meetings are to be scheduled on the first Monday of
the month. We chose October 3 (6: 30-7 : 00) , after our
planning meeting scheduled for September.
VI. Other business
A. Gail noticed that the statement that other forms of
the report are available was now on the Maplewood in
Motion and the Annual Report.
B. Carol will again call Sharon Cox (School District 622
Special Education Director) about progress on the
integration project.
VII. Reports
A. League of MHRC - President Evonne Price felt that the
Maplewood meeting of the Hate/Bias Committee was the
best one, of the six that she has attended.
B. City - Gretchen, Sherrie, and Mike will go to the
Equal but Different Conference, scheduled for May 19 .
C. Grievances - none reported
D. Agenda items for next time
"LEO" - Gail
Diversity letters - Sherrie
Integration project - Carol
Bank - Gordon (this will wait until a letter of
purpose is developed)
Critique of Open House to improve our part of the next
one.
Develop background information about why we are having
a poster contest (who, criteria, etc. ) .
E. Other
Karla visited the HRC meeting at Lake Elmo, on behalf
of our commission. The Maplewood commission was
e,�-w,mentioned as a very successful one.
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VIII. Adjournment at 8 : 45.