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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes December 19, 2018 – Draft Minutes Page 4of 14 137 138 Ms. Olson stated the one concern she would have regarding some of that uniformity 139 is the Legislative piece because that piece changes year to year, month to month. If 140 there is a piece of Legislation that has passed that could be referenced but if there is 141 potential pending Legislation or anything to that effect that could have added work in 142 how the Commission handles that. 143 144 Vice Chair Peterson stated the next question would be if this is something the 145 Commission would want to do on a yearly basis or every three to five years. If the 146 Commission would want to review the proclamations yearly, then that would have to 147 be worked into the Commission work plan for each year as an ongoing item. 148 149 Ms. Olson did not know if the review of the proclamations has been done on a 150 comprehensive basis such as the Commission is undertaking. She did know that the 151 City Council did take a look at the criteria as to what the City Council would consider 152 for a proclamation. She did not know if the actual language of the proclamations has 153 been reviewed or addressed previously. 154 155 Commissioner Bolinger stated this process has been a pretty big undertaking and has 156 been a lot of work so she thought the review might be once every three to five years 157 because yearly would take away from other things the Commission wants to do. 158 159 Vice Chair Peterson agreed and noted the Commission has been working on this for 160 over a year and she hoped in the future it will not be as much work if it were to be 161 done on a yearly basis, but she agreed it is a fair amount of work. She thought every 162 three to five years sounded reasonable to her. 163 164 Commissioner Bolinger asked if the Commissioners should go back to the 165 proclamations each one reviewed and take a look at them with the bullet points and 166 see if the proclamations have a lot of the items in them or should the Commission 167 focus on several of the proclamations at a time. 168 169 Vice Chair Peterson thought that would be up to the Commission for preference, but 170 she thought individually each person could review their proclamation or the 171 proclamations could be reviewed in chunks as suggested by the City Council. 172 th 173 Ms. Olson suggested the Commission could go before the Council on January 14 174 with February’s proclamation or both February and March proclamations if the 175 Commission desired. 176 177 Vice Chair Peterson asked if there was anything that really stood out on the Black 178 History Month Proclamation. 179 180 Commissioner Djevi stated he worked on the Black History Month Proclamation and 181 it looks different from what he prepared.