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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes November 14, 2018 – Draft Minutes Page 4 of 10 135 Chair Beltmann stated the Commission is in the final stages of reviewing the City’s 136 proclamations. She noted the proclamations will be brought forward to the City 137 Council as a recommendation along with the Commission’s recommendation(s) on a th 138 proclamation to highlight as a pilot project at the November 26meeting. 139 140 Chair Beltmann stated there are two proclamations left that need to be approved. 141 142 Ms. Olson stated Chair Beltmann and Commissioner Manke were working on the 143 Older American’s Month Proclamation and Commissioner Manke sent an email 144 noting the information she was finding was that Older American was the term more 145 accepted and more used. She wanted to pull her revision of changing itto Senior 146 Citizen’s Month. 147 148 Chair Beltmann stated she sent the two versions of the proclamation to AARP for 149 review and was told AARP would definitely go with Older Americans as it was much 150 better then senior citizens. She thought the Commission needed to review the Older 151 American’s Month Proclamation to see if there are any changes needed or if it is okay 152 and ready for approval. 153 154 Commissioner Peterson asked if the theme “Get into the Act”, is a yearly theme or 155 will that theme always be there. 156 157 Chair Beltmann stated she did not put the proclamation together, Commissioner 158 Manke did all of the work on it so she was not sure. 159 160 Chair Beltmann thought the third paragraph from Senior Citizen’s Month that states: 161 “The City of Roseville recognizes and focuses on older adults taking charge of their 162 health, getting engaged in their communities, and making positive impacts, in the 163 lives of others; and…”, moving it over to the third paragraph of the Older American 164 Proclamation.She thought the only other change would be to change Senior Citizen 165 to OlderAdults throughout the proclamation. 166 167 The Commission agreed to keep the fifth Whereas “Older Americans” and change the 168 second to last paragraph removing Older Americans from the second sentence. 169 170 Commissioner Djevi stated he had a conflict with the title of the proclamation and the 171 content of it. He preferred Older Adult because not all people living in the City are 172 Americans. 173 174 Chair Beltmann agreed and also felt in conflict by using Citizen because she felt like 175 the City was prequalifying people. She thought if the use was citizen, which has a 176 different meaning thanCitizen. She thought if the proclamation were changed to 177 Older Citizen Month it mirrors historically Senior Citizen Month. She thought 178 throughout the proclamation the wording should be changed to reflect that. 179