HomeMy WebLinkAbout04/02/2002MAPLEWOOD HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
Tuesday, April 2, 2002
7:00 p.m.
Maplewood City Hall
Conference Room A
AGENDA
7:00 I.CALL TO ORDER
7:05 II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
7:10 III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
7:15 IV. OLD BUSINESS
A. Information about articles (Elmo & Gordy)
B. Annual Report— final copy
C.
8:00 V. NEW BUSINESS
A. Judge Posters
B. History of Commission—Dave T. will research the history of this
commission—do we have by-laws stating our authority?
C.
VI. REPORTS
A.
B.
VII. MARCH AGENDA ITEMS:
A.
B.
8:30 VIII. ADJOURNMENT
ASSIGNMENTS:
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2.
3.
FUTURE TOPICS:
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Maplewood Human Relations Commission
March 5, 2002
Minutes
Members Present: Rita Ander, Joan Wurdeman, Elmo Mattox, Carol Cude, Gordie Heininger, Tammy
Nadzieja and Dave Thomalla, ex-officio
Called to Order: The meeting was called to order at 7:04 p.m.
II. Approval of Minutes: Motion was made to approve minutes as written. It was seconded and it
was passed.
III. Approval of Agenda: Motion was made to approve Agenda with changes. Motion carried.
IV. Old Business:
A. National Night Out—don't do interactive activities but merely informational. Dave said
format will be changing, no decisions yet. Goal is to get it out into the neighborhoods.
Maybe a city hall program on another night. We must wait until Parks and Rec. decide
how it will go.
B. April 9—Conference on Hate &Bigotry. High price from caterer at Community
Center. Joan will talk to them about this. Will be an article in M.I.M. about this.
C. Calling schools—call if you haven't.
D. Regular Articles in M.I.M. —New format—some months will be included in Parks &
Rec. catalog. For other months, it will be limited to 8 pages. Articles can be submitted
to a committee that will decide what will be included in each area.
Elmo will be on a sub-committee with Gordy to look into information about ideas, etc.,
ranked in order of importance. If they are not time-related, they can be held until there
might be room.
E. Annual Report— Sections of the annual report were discussed or reviewed. We hope to
have it ready for the April 15 Board Meeting. Carol needs to add one item for August's
calendar to say: Sponsored a multicultural games booth during National Night Out.
A discussion was held about adding future goals to the Annual Report, but this is tabled
until next year's report. If a decision is made to add this, the planning needs to start
earlier.
Rita will summarize the diversity award from last year for the report.
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March 5, 2002—Meeting Minutes
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V. New Business
A. Gail Blackstone: "Listening Through an Accent"—we are requested to co-sponsor this.
Voted to co-sponsor, use charitable gambling funds to pay MCC fees.
B. Joan—got some posters and data from the Attorney General's office on racial profiling.
C. Elmo would like the committee to consider inservices at every other meeting. Need
ideas, interests to generate speakers.
D. Budget—we have spent approximately $500 of our$1,900 budget so far this year,
mostly on printing.
VI. Reports: There were no reports.
VII. Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted,
Carol Cude
Secretary, HRC