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Human Rights, Inclusion and Engagement Commission Minutes December 18, 2019 Draft Minutes Page 8 of 9 remains the only evaluators otherwise if there is going to be a teacher involved for evaluating the Spanish essays then a teacher should also be evaluating the English essays as well. He thought there needed to be a fair process. Youth Commissioner Xie thought this was a very good idea because this is engaging the community by saying the community has a voice no matter what language is being spoken. Commissioner Allen agreed but he was talking more about the process of evaluation. He thought it was a great idea but if the Commission is going to be the evaluators, he did not think it was fair to evaluate something that cannot be read and would need translation. Chair Beltmann thought the other question this raises is whether there are other language immersion programs in the City of Roseville that are focused on other languages that the Commission would need to think about including as well or if those programs ask to be included. She thought it would be fantastic if the Commission would be able to accept essays in multiple languages on one topic but to can quickly make a judgement on how to evaluate. She wondered if this is something the Commission could take time to try to develop a process on in 2020 for 2021 implementation. Ms. Olson thought this could be a way to try to reach out to different communities and the Commission could then ask for people who might be interested in being on a team to evaluate the essays. Commissioner Bolinger thought it would be a good way to get the community ambassadors to get together as a coalition to score these essays. She thought there are opportunities but also do not want to miss out on an opportunity especially when one community comes to the Commission asking to be included. Chair Beltmann thought this sounded like the Commission would propose this be used as a pilot and seek community volunteers who speak both Spanish and English who could read all essays and then the Commission would just read the English essays. The Commission could use this as a test to see if it could be expanded in the future. She asked if everyone felt comfortable with this in terms of process. The majority of the Commission agreed and felt the Commission needed to start somewhere. Ms. Olson thought if this does not work she could talk to the teacher and explain that given the January deadline for essay submittal and the timeline it may not be successfully implemented this year but the Commission could start working on to make this work for 2021 if it is something the Commission is interested in.