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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 24, 2017 Page 13 Ms. Hansel submitted written comments via email dated April 21, 2017, attached hereto and made apart hereof. Ms. Hansel expounded on her written comments, and spoke in support of the comments made by HRC Chair Groff. Ms. Hansel expressed appreciation for and the need to continue recognizing visible and non-visible disabilities as a human rights awareness issue. In the new language, Ms. Hansel noted the omission of youth commissioners, expressing her hope that this was an inadvertent omission and that youth could continue to serve. Mankpondehou Djevi, 851 Sextant Ave., HRC Commissioner Mr. Djevi stated that he had joined the HRC in the interest of human rights, not for equity/engagement. Mr. Djevi reviewed the inherent human rights of all, the definition of human rights, and examples of how to measure that impartiality. Mr. Djevi asked the City Council to consider the message they were sending to the di- verse community by removing"human rights" from the title. Cora Lieben, 2924 Asbury Street Ms. Lieben echoed the comments of those speaking before her; and added her voice of support for the HRC and related terminology, stating the words "human rights" are known and understood universally. Chelsea Holub, 2946 High Court, CEC Commissioner As a member of the Task Force, Ms. Holub echoed the comments of Coun- cilmember Laliberte as to the general feelings of the subcommittee, with the con- versations having been positive and that all were on the same page. However, Ms. Holub stated how disheartening it was to her to hear tonight of the dissention, suggesting more time was needed before making a decision. Ms. Holub opined that all commissioners on both the HRC and CEC shared the same goals and ideas about their community, but obviously more work needed to be done in terms of what the new commission should look like. Respectfully, Ms. Holub asked for more time to do so. Warren Wolf, 1999 Snelling Avenue N As a 24-year resident of Roseville, when first seeing the proposed name change and deletion of"human rights," Mr. Wolf expressed his concern, including the re- duction of a total of fourteen commissioners in the past for the HRC and CEC, and now only a potential of nine commissioners. Mr. Wolf noted that both com- missions in the past already had more work than they could do with the larger membership. Mr. Wolf stated that his main concern was that by combining the two commissions would dilute the impact of both. Mr. Wolf noted that communi- ty engagement and human rights had both been undertaken with varying degrees of success in the past; and suggested that this collaborative effort would not be as successful with a combined commission versus retaining two separate commis- sions as in the past.