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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10/04/1994MAPLEWOOD HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION Meeting Minutes of October 4, 1994 Present at Meeting: Marie Koehler, Mike McGuire, Gordon Heininger, Sherrie Le, Carol Cude, Shelly Strauss, Gail Schiff, Pat Williams. Karla Sand was ill. I. Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 7:05 p.m. by Marie Koehler. II. Agenda approval: The agenda was approved with one addition: recruiting new members. III. Approval of minutes: The minutes request was made to include the of those present, and the reason Sherrie or the Chair if you will meeting. IV. OLD BUSINESS were approved. A absences under the names if known. Please call not be able to attend a A. Police department notification on Hate/bias crimes - The chief apologized for not notifying us, on the hate/bias crime. In the future he will forward a copy of the blue form to us, but no names or addresses will be on it. He cannot even send out a letter we would give him, due to the data privacy act. A question was asked concerning how other communities get this information: paper, TV, word of mouth? It slows our ability to respond in a timely manner, even though Collins says that they don't come up very often. B. HRC Review of Charitable Gambling requests - At the last meeting we had talked about requests related to human relations possibly being reviewed by our committee. There presently is one request, and money is approved quarterly. A decision was made for city groups not to go out and solicit funds, as then it might have to be regulated. Banks are not included. A decision was made not to become involved in the approval of these requests for funds, but it was felt that it would be nice to know what's being requested. C. Review lists 1. Shelly - new lists of churches 2. Gail - new school mailing list and contact persons 3. Marie - she is still working on the fraternal/ business list. She needs some new ideas on who/where to make contact. D. Review of Diversity Award/Poster Contest materials- The letter was reviewed, and one incorrect date was changed. A discussion was made about making the date of the poster contest and diversity award match, and this was approved. Then, dates and wording had to be altered again. It was felt that the cover letter should not be two pages long. Sherrie will try to get the cover letter all on one page, even if the bottom front paragraph has to be removed. E. Contact name and phone number for L.E.O. to assist recruitment - Gail Gail was able to provide the L.E.O. contact person and phone number: Leslie Aboddie or Dave Greenman : 493-2802 (North West Commission Law Enforcement Project) F. School Integration Project - Carol - no new information G. Assign commission members to contact individual school for poster contest - all. Al1 schools will receive the diversity award letter, but the poster contest will only go to elementary schools, in Maplewood. Gail - Beaver Lake, Mounds Park Shelly - Maplewood Middle, Carver Pat - Weaver Gordon - John Glenn, Edgerton Marie - Presentation, St. Jerome's Karla - Capitol City Adventists, Gethsemane Carol - Hill Murray, Transfiguration The letter will go out on October 7, and members are requested to contact their schools between October 14 and the end of October. Ask: did they receive the materials, any questions, who is assigned to do this, give your name and phone number if they have any other questions later. H. Membership review - Pat Williamson and Shelly Strauss will not be continuing on the commission after December. Pat has been on the commission for 12 years, and Shelly is having conflicts with her continuing education. A discussion was held concerning advertising for new members, and also those who applied in the past and were not chosen will be contacted to see if they are still interested. (2 applications) I. Gordon - Diversity Award donations - Gordon left information with the bank concerning the purpose of our request for funds. It was felt that the letter about the poster contest could not go out until we have a definite commitment for the money. VI. New Business A. October 3 meeting with the Mayor and Council - Marie presented out work calendar to the council. They expressed appreciation for what we have done. They were impressed with the caliber of the committee members. The Mayor suggested that we get the poster winners matted so that they can be better displayed. It is possible that in the future we could make use of the craft room in the new community center. Other suggestions offered were: Maybe in the future we could do some joint commission projects, we should look into putting some of our information into other languages such as Spanish and Hmong, maybe a DARE-type of program to do diversity in the schools, maybe consider giving a free community center membership as an award, or the whole class wins a trip to the center. Attending were Gail, Pat, Gordon, Marie, Mike, Sherrie. 6 B. Response to hate crimes - tabled until next time VII. Reports A. League - Pat, Gail, and Karla went to the annual meeting on Sept: 24., and felt it was worthwhile. They attended various available meetings. A good speaker was Robert Terry, a local private consultant. Gail and Pat collected some handouts and will bring them to the next meeting to be copied. B. City - The open house at the new community center was very nice, and close to 500 people came. It was catered by Gladstone Catering. Sherrie reported that disability awareness training has been held for staff at Maplewood. C. Grievances - none D. Next time Calendar items - School contact: diversity, develop hate-crime response, update business/chamber list, develop draft intro. letter for out commission. Recruitment update Pat/Gail: handouts from annual league meeting E. Other: none ADJOURNED: 8;55 p.m.