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Roseville HLUnan Rights Commission M�eeting - May 8, 1974 - 7:3Q to 9:55 PM Present: Ann Berxy, Carolyn G�zshing, Lola Gross, Dave Ha11, Paul Walker, Bessie Bat�le, Burke Rayntond. Absent: Ran Denison, Hortense 0'Neill, To�nie Bxaddock Staff: Doug Lowe 1. Paul Walkex moved and Burke Ray�nd seconded, tha.t the minutes o£ the meeting o£ April 1Q, 1974, be approved. Ayes: S- Nays: 0. 2. The League of Minnesota Human Rights Co�nmissions will hold its annual meeting on May 11, I974. The League now has 42 members representing over half o£ the HRC's in the State. 3. The Maplewood Human Rights Commission has sen� a resolution to the Maplewood City Council requ�esting that a Cxtizens Ca�ni.ttee be appointed to review the delivery of "hwnan services" in Maplewood and to xecommend a hzunan sexvices prograrn for the city. A9aplewood. has noied that St. Pau1 has five neighborhood comm�mi�y service centers ana the Maplewood HRC would like to have an o£fxce created within Maplewaod's botmdaries so that Maplewood citizens wi11 have xeady access to ihose serrrices . 4. The Spring Lake Park School Dxstrict has instiiuted. a program in "Whi�e 5tuclies" in an effort to tackle the problem of White racism through the med.iwn of the class room. S. There wiZ1 be a meeting on Ma.y 15, at the Cedarholm Golf Course sponsoxed by the Greater Metropolitan Federation and the Center of Urban Encotxnter for the puxpose of discussing hzzman r�.ghts issues in the North Suburban Area. Further znformation can be obtained fram the Federation or the Center. 6. The Arden Hills Htnnan Rights Connnission sponsored a lecture meeting on May 1, at which Bi11 English, the Affirmat�ve Action Officer for GontroZ Data Corporation, spoke on hzs view of Affirmative Action. Control Data sets corporation wide policy but delegates responsibility for the detailed program itself to its indiwidual lower level managers, Mr, English's concern is ihat those managers who wil.l be administering the Affirmative Action pxogram be sensitized to the need for such an ef�oxt and be firmly :.onm�a.tted to it, 7. Ann Berry and Dave Ha.11 at�ended the April 27th H��n�n Rights Conference sponsored by the State Department of Human Rights and the League of Miz�nesota Htiuitan Rights Gommissions. Ann's repoz°t is attached to these m�nutes. Dave attended the Affz.rmative Action workshop at whYCh Clarence Harris from Univac defined the differences between equal employment oppox°tunity and affirmative action as the differences between a pass�ve and an active program. 8. Dave Hall wi11 re-contact the Har Mar Center to try �o obtain a satisfactory response to the Gommission's earlier expressions of concern about adequate access and facilitie� for handicapped persons using the center.