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. ~G 'M'M l~E'. e 4-e ~ ~ r ._~ From Thelma McKenzie and Larry Voeller • Just a brief follow-up from our last Human Rights meeting. You and I were going to put our heads together and come up with a more focused goal under the heading of "Build new and strengthen partnerships with community and businesses." My basic thoughts are to simply get more specific so we'll know when we have accomplished the goal and so we make some definitive progress. I believe one partnership we have already initiated this year is with the Roseville schools. With Marion and Johanna Eager joining us at our October meeting, I believe we will develop some more specific actions that will support their efforts. I would like to see us establish one more contact like that this year...either with a business or other community group. So my initial thoughts for a more focused goal would be something like this... BUILD NEW AND STRENGTHEN PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY AND BUSINESSES Make formal contact with the Roseville schools and one other Roseville business or community group in order to (a) understand the issues they face in creating environments that support diversity and effective human relations and (b) determine specific actions that the Roseville Human Right Commission can do to support those efforts. Action to be taken: Set-Up a "Partnership Workshop" at one of our meetings or do it in the day with whichever HRC Members can attend. The contents of the workshop would be for our Commission to listen to them. • their needs and ideas of working in community; • • find common grounds to work together; and • present how we want to partner with them and what we are asking of them, how we want them involved. Our work will be refining and developing this workshop to meet the goals we are setting as we will need partners to help with programs and finances in some instances i.e. underwrite the essay contest awards both for students and teachers......... My thoughts are to first contact via letter [we can draft send to members for input and refine then send] • new HRA Agency in Roseville; • Parks and Recreation; • Police Commission; • whatever Chamber of Commerce Roseville is now a part of; • League of Women Voters; • Council of Churches specifically Roseville area churches; • we already are in the schools, however, the same letter to the school superintendent of our District and to each contact we have at any of the schools; • the company who operates Rosedale Shopping Center; • Key Businesses in Roseville, large and small; also specifically "Advance Circuits" (they were the recipients of our last HRC Award given. As I recall they were very willing to • come and work with the commission and in community. They had a partnership with Fairview Community Center when we gave them the award.