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whether the Commission should take a position on the Minnesota Constitutional Amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage. The League's resolution will be provided to guests for consideration, as an example of a resolution opposing the Marriage Amendment; it was discussed that providing this Resolution to residents in advance, for public comment, would then allow for consideration of it (as a starting point) at the Commission's regular May Commission meeting. Chair Grefenberg will begin the meeting, though he may elect to have another keep time for speakers. The public will sign in and indicate whether they wish to speak. Written comments will also be accepted. The meeting will be televised. Depending on the amount of speakers, each speaker will have 3-S minutes each to share. Commissioners are there to listen (not to express positions), though they may ask questions of speakers for the purpose of clarification. League of Women's Voters Program on Voter ID: At the March 27t" meeting, Chair Grefenberg expressed concern that the Commission may have acted prematurely in emailing out to the HRC list-serve notice of the League's presentation on the Voter ID Referendum. Bob ��Willmus questioned whether the City's resources should be used in such ways, given that #e�s ��n.-I.,-„-.,n ,.�h�+h�r+h�, �i.,+�r in Q�f�r�n.J��.., ,.�-,� -, h��.,-,-,n r�.�h+� �«�� ti115 IS a Lea�ue of Women Voter's event and some do not see the Voter ID Referendum to be a human ri�hts issue. He also wondered if supporting such a program would require the Commission to find a pro�ram that supports the issue in order to show an opposin� view. Grefenberg distributed copies of the League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions' position opposing the Voter ID Constitutional Amendment and its Public Policy recommendations on Bullying, Immigration, and Hate Crimes. Commissioner poneen expressed her view that, while the Commission had not taken a position on the issue, the full Commission had decided that it was enough of a human rights issue to warrant supporting this educational program given that (among other things) the League of MN Human Rights Commissions was reviewing the same issue. Commissioner Brisbois maintained that promoting this program seemed no different than supporting other programs (which have educated the public on one side of an issue, prior to any official position by the Commission), and she suggested that the Commission need not take a position on every issue that we support programming on for educational purposes. She also thought such activities were in the interest of Civic Engagement (part of the HRC's purpose). No consensus was reached on the handling of this particular program, though it did further reflection on how programming (and support of others' programming) proceeds.