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182 183 184 185 186 187 188 1g� i90 191 192 193 194 Human Rights Commission Minutes February 19, 2014 — Draft Minutes Page 5 of 13 Chair Groff asked if a representative and an alternate could be selected from the group. Commissioner Grefenberg stated this would be allowed, but clarified that the election of all directors occurred at the u�coming annual meetin� Chair Groff commented he was willing to serve in this capacity. Commissioner Becker stated he would be available to serve as the alternate. Committee and Other Reports Civic Engagement Task Force 195 Council Action at February 10, 2014 meeting regarding establishing new Commissions: 196 Commissioner Grefenberg, co-chair of the HRC's Civic Enaa�ement Task Force, reported the 197 Council created a Civic Engagement Commission on a 4-1 vote at their February 10, 2014 198 meeting. He submitted a description of this commission to the HRC members present. It was 199 his opinion there would not be any overlap between the Civic Engagement Commission and the 20o HRC. He reported that � current commission members could apply for the Civic 201 Engagement Commission, explainin� that he understood Commissioner Becker was interested in 202 a�plvin� for this new commission. He explained he intends to apply based on his understanding 203 that membership was open to existing commissioners. uo �.,-,,,,,.�,� ��,;� „r �„ ;�� ,-,,, ��,o uvr 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 Staff Liaison said she had a different understanding on this issue of whether current commissioners could a�lv for the Communitv En�,a�ement Commission. Commissioner Grefenber� asked that anv other Commission members interested in joinin� the new Communitv En�a�ement Commission also contact him. 212 Pending Consideration of Revising Human Rights Commission Ordinance: Commissioner 213 Grefenberg reviewed the first draft of the Human Rights Commission Ordinance with the HRC. 214 He discussed the � language changes pro�osed bv staf£ He encouraged the Chair and 215 Vice Chair to discuss this matter in further detail before the proposed Ordinance was reviewed 216 and acted u�on by the Council. 21� 218 As noted in the Civic En�a�ement Re�ort dated Februarv 12� which was included in the meetin� 219 ap cket, �Ie Grefenberg s�ttgge�e� recommended that the g�e�}rCommission authorize �e its 22o Operations Committee to review and prepare a response to these changes before the March HRC 221 meeting. 222 223 In response to a question from Commissioner Becicer, Ms. Collins said it was her understandin� 224 the Council subcommittee on Commissions would be addressing the issue of revisin� the current 225 commissions' ordinances, but had not vet done that. She added that she did not anticipate that the 226 Council would not be taking action on this item before the March 19�' HRC meeting. 227