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Human Rights Commission Minutes February 18, 2015 Page 6 of 9 Commissioner Singleton suggested changing the language to reflect the members of the Operations Committee would be the Chair, the Vice Chair, and a Commissioner appointed by the Chair. Commissioner Carey stated the Operations Committee section defines the members as the Chair, Vice Chair, and the Chair of any other standing committee and any other member of the Commission that wished to attend. Youth Commissioner Dao clarified the only remaining standing committees would be the Operations Committee and the Youth Commissioners Committee. Chair Groff stated the Operations Committee would only meet if there was an emergency or a definite need to meet. Ms. Collins stated the description for the Youth Commissioner Committee would be the general duties of a Youth Commissioner and not just the Committee and this could be included under Membership and Responsibilities of a Youth Commissioner under Article 4, Item D. Vice Chair Thao stated she would provide any word changes to Ms. Collins. Ms. Collins stated she would provide a draft of the By-Laws incorporating the recommended changes for the Commission to review and adopt at a future meeting. Commissioner Becker stated when the By-Laws were first drafter pat of the charge for the HRC was civic engagements but this has since changed and this now falls under a different Committee. The City Council has not taken any action to remove this language from the Ordinance that established the HRC. He asked if the Commission would want to remove the civic engagement language from its charge, if the Commission would want to lobby the Council to remove this language from the Ordinance and if the Commissioner would want to change the By-Laws to reflect these changes. Chair Groff suggested leaving this language regarding civic engagement until the Ordinance has been changed by the City Council. e. Karen Engagement Update Ms. Collins explained the Task Force that had been established to help fill service gaps for the Karen population and the proposal from ECHO. She stated the Housing and Redevelopment Authority had approved $10,000 towards this project ofputting together 5 short videos that will be produced in several languages and can be used as learning tools on rental rights and responsibilities for people moving to the area. There has been interest from other agencies to provide funding for this project as well. Chair Groff suggested contacting the real estate organizations and see if they would be interested in partnering for this project.