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47 <br />48 <br />49 <br />50 <br />51 <br />52 <br />53 <br />54 <br />55 <br />56 <br />Human Rights Commission Minutes <br />February 19, 2014 — Draft Minutes <br />Page 2 of 13 <br />Vice Chair Becker moved and Commissioner Michele Courneya seconded a motion to approve <br />the January 15, 2014 meeting minutes as amended. Motion passed unanimously. <br />Public Comment <br />There being no one present wishing to speak to the Commission on an item not on the agenda, <br />the chair moved to the next agenda item. <br />Old Business <br />57 Discussion and Evaluation of Top Scoring Essays: Ms. Collins reviewed the evaluation <br />58 process of the student essays. She requested the Commission select the top scorers for first, <br />59 second, third and honorable mention. She reported the Commission could have several <br />6o honorable mention candidates to ensure that each class was represented. <br />�1 <br />62 Commissioner Grefenberg recalled that in the past honorable mentions were presented to ensure <br />63 each school was � represented. However, only one school was submitting essays for the <br />64 contest this year. He did not believe that each class had to be fairly represented within the <br />65 contest. For this reason, he believed the HRC had the freedom to decide which essays were first, <br />66 second, third and honorable mention. He ""°�� asked staff to report which essays �e <br />67 ranked high and in what order, based on the raw scores. <br />68 <br />69 Ms. Collins reported essay # 18 received a score of 165, essay #114, received a score of 160.5, <br />�o and essay #103 received a score of 160. The honorable mention candidates would be as follows: <br />71 essay #29 with a score of 150, essay #17 with a score of 140, essay #27 with a score of 139.5, <br />72 and essay #102 with a score of 139. <br />73 <br />74 Commissioner Courneya asked if the HRC wanted to recognize an honorable mention from each <br />75 class, given the fact that one class had English as a second language. She was impressed with <br />76 how well each of the essays were written this year. <br />77 <br />78 Commissioner Grefenberg discussed the strong essay scores from each of the classes. He was in <br />�9 favor of awarding the top awards (first, second and third) to essay numbers #18, #114 and #103. <br />go <br />g1 Ms. Collins explained that the scores for second and third were only a half point different. Due <br />g2 to this fact, the HRC could choose to award one first place, two second-place winners and then <br />g3 select essay #29 as the third place winner. This would allow another class to be represented. <br />84 <br />85 Commissioner Courneya and Youth Commissioner Thomas supported this suggestion, as did <br />g6 Commissioner Grefenberg �g�ee�. <br />87 <br />88 Selection and Ranking of Winning Essays: Commissioner Grefenberg moved and Vice Chair <br />89 Becker seconded a motion to award the top essay winners as follows: First Place - Essay #18, <br />90 Second Place — Essays #114 and #103, and Third Place — Essay #29. Motion passed <br />91 unanimously. <br />92 <br />