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Human Rights Commission Minutes January 16, 2013 Minutes Page 2 of 7 Standing Committee Reports Program Planning Committee Community Dialogue on Violence: Chair Grefenberg indicated the Civic Engagement Task Force had invited some residents from the community, to take part in this discussion. Vice chair Brisbois invited them to join the Commission at the table. Mr. Grefenberg indicated that the opportunity to receive a grant from the Meadowlark Institute had been brought to him after the last Commission meeting and with only ten days before the grant deadline on December 29th. He immediately notified staff of the grant's availability and the HRC's Operations Committee, and then worked with Megan Dushin, a member of the HRC's Civic Engagement Task Force and the resident who had first brought the grant to his attention, in developing a grant application. The grant application was for a Roseville Community Dialogue to converse about ideas for violence prevention in the community. He explained a grant application was being considered to assist with the expense of a professional facilitator for the event. Chair Grefenberg requested the HRC discuss the proposed event and confirm the grant.. application which occurred between Commission meetings. Megan Dushin stated she began the grant application with informal communications with the City Council asking if there was interest in a community -wide dialog on violence prevention. The Mayor suggested she work with the HRC on this issue. Chair Grefenberg stated after hearing about the proposed dialogue, he thought the grant was appropriate to assist in the Commission's Community Dialogue series approved in the fall of 2011, and so consulted with the Chair of the Commission's Program Planning Committee and the Operations Committee which acts as an executive committee in between Commission meetings. He -asked whether there were any comments and suggestions from the group on this matter. Ms. Dushin further discussed the grant application explaining it would cover the expense of two half -day community dialogues in Roseville on the topic of interpersonal violence ranging from playground bullying to more harmful criminal acts, and its prevention. The goals of the events are to bring the Roseville community together to examine the complex factors that contribute to violence, and to identify what the community can do to prevent violence. Ms. Dushin explained the Meadowlark RFP encouraged a community level discussion versus a professional seminar on the topic. Chair Grefenberg indicated the grantor, Meadowlark Institute, highly recommended that a professional facilitator be part of the Dialogue. He said $3,500 was requested for the facilitator and other program - related expenses, and the group received $2,500. He noted the InCommons facilitator Ariella Tilsen's expense was $1,000. The additional expenses for the event were