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Human Rights Commission Minutes March 29, 2017 –Draft Minutes Page 2of7 Chair Groff asked Commissioner Peterson to let the subcommittee know that the Commission 47 had reviewed and updated the Commission goals and objectives. He also stressed that Human 48 Rights should be part of thetitle for the new Commission. He pointed out that there had been 11 49 applicants for the open Human Rights Commission seats. 50 51 Commissioner Slade stated she had been disappointed to see that two Councilmembers had 52 abstained from voting during the interview process and it had not been made clear to those 53 interviewing that the HRC would be combined with the CEC. 54 55 b.Update on Essay Contest 56 57 Ms. Curti stated the subcommittee had read 120 essays and they are recommending the top 24 58 for the full Commission to read and grade based on the rubric provided. This process should be 59 completed by April 13 and the scores will be reviewed at the April 19 meeting. There will be a 60 presentation to the winners at the May 8 City Council meeting. 61 62 Commissioner Carey asked what the difference was in the analysis and evidence of the 63 identification analysis and the analysis and identification of the example. 64 65 Ms. Curti stated she had used the rubricfrom last year as an example. If the Commission wants 66 to make changes these should be done at this time. 67 68 Youth Commissioner Hansel stated when she had used the rubric to read all of the essays she had 69 scored the analysis and evidence of the identification based on how well the writer had identified 70 how stereotypes affect society and the analysis of this and the analysis and identification of the 71 example based on how well they used analysis for the how damaged human rights section and 72 how much they expanded on this. 73 74 Commissioner Dailey explained she had scored this based on the writer identifying that this was 75 a problem damaging society and the example how well they had expanded on a specific example. 76 77 Commissioner Carey stated this analysis was similar to the first analysis and she suggested 78 striking the first analysis question in the rubric. 79 80 Youth Commissioner Hansel suggested if the two points were removed from the first question 81 then these could be added into the spelling and grammar scoring because this should be weighted 82 more. 83 84 Commissioner Carey stated the Commission had decided last year that they would not score 85 heavily on grammar and spelling because of the age range of the participants. She clarified the 86 first two scores were just checking to see if the information was there and the other two scores 87 were based on how much the ideas were expanded on. 88 89 c.Update on community dialogues –Imagine Roseville 90 91