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Human Rights Commission Minutes <br />February 19, 2014 — Draft Minutes <br />Page 3 of 13 <br />93 Chair Groff requested the HRC now select essays for honorable mention. <br />94 <br />95 Chair Grefenberg reported that the next highest ranked essays were #17 with a score of 140, #27 <br />96 with a score of 139.5 and #102 with a score of 139. He recommended that essay #42 also be <br />97 awarded honorable mention, as it was the highest scoring essay from Group D. He explained <br />9g this would allow for each class to be well represented with a variety of discrimination topics <br />99 addressed through these essays. <br />100 <br />101 <br />102 <br />103 <br />104 <br />105 <br />106 <br />107 <br />1og <br />io9 <br />110 <br />111 <br />112 <br />ll3 <br />114 <br />115 <br />ll6 <br />117 <br />118 <br />119 <br />120 <br />121 <br />122 <br />123 <br />124 <br />Ms. Collins encouraged the Commission to consider awarding honorable mention to Essay #108 <br />and #8, as their scores were higher than essay #42. This would allow there to be five honorable <br />mention awards. <br />Vice Chair Becker and Commissioner Courneya supported this recommendation. <br />Commissioner Grefenberg questioned if the HRC wanted to reconsider this to have each class <br />covered. <br />Vice Chair Becker believed that the scores were fairly telling and believed that the awards <br />should follow along accordingly. <br />Commissioner Courneya recommended only five honorable mentions be awarded. <br />Commissioner Grefenberg moved and Commissioner Becker seconded a motion to award <br />honorable mention to the following essays: Essay #17, #27, #102, #108, and #8. Motion passed <br />unanimously. <br />Confirmation of Prizes: Chair Groff asked if the HRC had any comments regarding the prize <br />awards for the essay winners. <br />Commissioner Becker ��gge�te�recoinmended that each of the second place winners be <br />awarded a prize and that they not be forced to split the award. <br />125 Commissioner Grefenberg supported this recommendation. He stated the $50 donation to the <br />126 school could be eliminated this year as only one school participated in the contest this year, and <br />127 the prize monev went into the School District's �eneral fund without anv reference to whv the <br />128 donation was being inade. <br />129 <br />130 <br />131 <br />132 <br />133 <br />134 <br />135 <br />136 <br />Commissioner Courneya agreed � that this was a good point. <br />Commissioner Grefenberg requested that the quality of the essay contest winner reception be <br />improved from last vear, and that the HRC allow for up to $225 to be spent on the event. <br />Commissioner Grefenberg moved and Commissioner Courneya seconded a motion to award <br />$100 for first place, $70 to the two second place winners, $35 for third place, $20 to the five <br />