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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes March 20, 2019 –Draft Minutes Page 15of 18 623 Chair Beltmann statedshe fully acknowledged she screwed up because she was 624 moving really quickly. There are two vacancies on the Commission and two people 625 applied for the positions, interviews were done at the City Council. She indicated she 626 participated in the interviews and normally gives the City Council some feedback on 627 the candidates. Coming out of the meeting and after thinking about it this 628 Commission has had a lot of turn over in the last year which has felt like the 629 Commission has to keep resetting each time a new Commissioner comes on. 630 631 Chair Beltmann stated because of that and her desire, she thought the Commission 632 was starting to get to a really good place with the Engagement work in order to start 633 to move things forward, she made a recommendation to the Council to drop the 634 Commission down to seven seats from nine seats. Most of the other Commissions 635 have seven Commissioners on them and in order to be consistent with those 636 Commissions and also as a way to keep the Commission moving forward without 637 worrying about onboarding. She indicated that should have been a conversation that 638 happened with the entire Commission first and without thinkingshe made the 639 recommendation trying to get it out to the City Council quickly. 640 641 Chair Beltmann stated she would like to discuss this as a Commission and potentially 642 revise the recommendation she made to the City Council. 643 644 Mr. Trudgeon stated at the Monday night meeting it was added to the agenda in 645 regard to the Finance Commission who had one applicant with two openings and that 646 person dropped out and there were probably six to seven people at one point for the 647 HRIEC and most dropped out leaving two. He stated this was brought forward to 648 advertise again for the Finance Commission but also extending the time for HRIEC. 649 650 Mr. Trudgeon reviewed the City Policy regarding applications and interviews. He 651 noted the policy is discretionary by the Council. 652 653 Mr. Trudgeon stated it was the City Council’s decision to advertise again for the 654 Finance Commission and HRIEC openings.He stated the Chairs recommendation 655 was brought up at the City Council meeting and the City Council wanted the 656 Commission’s feedback. 657 658 ChairBeltmann thought moving the number of Commissioners from nine to seven 659 was not the appropriate wording. More so, she wondered if the Commission can hold 660 off on adding anyone new at this time to give the Commission some time to move the 661 work forward. Shewould also like time to have the Commission figure out what a 662 good onboarding process would be for the Commission. She would also like the 663 Commission to think about how the Commission can be better in terms of the 664 recruitment for the Commission because there has been a lack of diversity present. 665 As the Commission that is focused on inclusiveness, it is not a very inclusive 666 Commission. She would like to discuss this in order to add some clarification of her 667 recommendation to the City Council.