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MINUTES
MAPLEWOOD HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
Tuesday, May 4, 1993
7:00 PM
Maplewood City Hall
Maplewood Room
PRESENT
Pat Williamson
Mike LaClair
Gordon Heininger
Mike McGuire
Laurie Elliott
I.
II.
CALL TO ORDER
REVIEW OF MINUTES
ABSENT
Karla Sand
Sister Claire Lynch
Minor corrections made in the Business Outreach Letters section. Minutes will be
approved at the ne�rt meeting due to lack of a quorum.
III. OLD BUSINESS
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C.
Lea�ue of MN Human Rights Cam,pai�n
Thursday, June 17, 8:30 - 10:30 a.m. We will host the meeting in the
Council Chambers. We will provide coffee and muffins.
City officials from surrounding communities will be invited.
Acts of Bias and Prejudice
The Commission needs to identify the response network.
Commission Vacancv
Applicant Shelly K. Strauss was interviewed and spoke about the reasons she
is interested in serving on the Commission.
D. Open House
We need coverage from 5- 9 p.m. One table will be available in the lobby
for the Commission. We will try to cover our table with two members of the
Commission. Pat and Gordon will be here at 5:00 p.m.. Mike will be here
at 6:30. Key chains and broc�'hures about the Commission will be handed
out. The Diversity Awareness Award wlii be handed out at 8:30 p.m., and a
representative from Premier Bank will be here to present the $500.00 check.
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E. Diversity Award
All applicants will be thanked in the press release announcing the winner.
IV. NEW BUSINESS
A. Mike LaClair has resigned effective June 15 because he is moving to Cottage
Grove.
B. Retirement party for Fulton Klinkerfues on Tuesday, June 1. Karla and Pat
will be attending.
V. REPORTS
A. Lea ,gue of MN Human Ri�hts Commission
The League was asked to take over No Fault Grievance training. The
League questioned what legal authority they would have if they took over
the training. So far no decision has been made.
There is an opening for the secretary position for the League.
No date has been set for the Annual Meeting.
B. Karla met with the Partnership. They are concerned about the number of
young people that hang out at the Mall.
Karla set up a meeting with Hal Norgard to discuss the internship for the
minority police position that we would like to set up for Maplewood. Hal
said that there is no money available right now, but Karla is looking at
alternate ways of raising the money.
C. Grievances
Pat is continuing her follow-up on the grievance that was referred to the
Commission at the last meeting.
Respectfully Submitted,
Michael LaClair