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Roseville Human Rights Commission Meeting Minutes -October 13, 2009 Page 2 of 7 1 Recording Secretary Stowell noted her recollection of the discussion concurred with that 2 of Member Grefenberg; however, her interpretation of the discussion was that Member 3 Grefenberg had retracted his previous interpretation and his statement, and her decision 4 to eliminate the entire discussion from the draft minutes. 6 City Attorney Scott Anderson, who was in attendance for an agenda item, was asked his• 7 legal opinion in meeting minutes and additions. 9 City Attorney Anderson addressed the legal parameters of meeting minutes and their two 10 formats: that of summarizing conversational points and issues during the discussion and 11 any related actions, and minutes that only summarized action items for historical 12 purposes. Mr. Anderson advised that it was not standard procedures that meeting 13 minutes provided an actual transcript of a discussion. Mr. Anderson echoed comments 14 expressed by some members that additional verbiage should not be added to meeting 15 minutes or any attempts to sanitize them. 16 17 Member McKenzie expressed her concerns to Member Grefenberg of other issues he'd 18 previously brought forward that related to his perceptions of slights to other diversity 19 groups in the community. Member McKenzie assured Member Grefenberg and the entire 20 HRC that this was not the purpose of Human Rights, and the intent of the HRC was to 21 have everyone represented to work through differences and find areas of commonality as 22 a foundation upon which to build. Member McKenzie clarified that a representative of 23 Northwestern College had been included on the Forum Planning Committee and they had 24 contributed financially, but the representative had not been present at all of the planning 25 meetings. 26 27 After further discussion, the ruling Chair Singleton was that Member Grefenberg's 28 recollection of the September 8, 2009 meeting discussion would be -included as part of 29 the record of tonight's meeting, but that it would not be made as an addition to the 30 meeting minutes of September 8, 2009. 31 32 City Attorney Anderson concurred with the action of the Chair, noting that while 33 Member Grefenberg proposed amending the September 8, 2009 meeting minutes, the 34 proposed amendment was not formally adopted, but the suggested language was a part of 35 tonight's recorded discussion. 36 37 Member Grefenberg accepted the suggestion of City Attorney Anderson and the ruling of 38 the Chair, while standing by his suggested language addition. 39 40 Member Grefenberg moved, seconded by Member Yates, to approve the HRC meeting 41 minutes of September 8, 2009 as amended to include suggested revisions #1 and 2. 42 Motion carried: 4/0/2 (Kennedy and McKenzie) 43 44 Chair Singleton advised that he would vote only to break a tie vote. 45