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August 18, 2010 Item 2 Approve Minutes of June 8, 2010 1 Human Rights Commission 2 DRAFT -Meeting Minutes- DRAFT 3 June 8, 2010 4 5 Commissioners Present: Chair David Singleton; Commissioners Gary Grefenberg, Liz 6 Jaeger, Thelma McKenzie and Marie Oftelie. Commissioner Peg 7 Kennedy arrived at 6:45 p.m. 8 9 1. Call to Order: Chair David Singleton called meeting to order at 6:35 p.m. The Clerk 10 called the roll. 11 12 2. Approve Minutes of May 11, 2010 13 14 Commissioner Gary Grefenberg moved approval of the minutes with a correction on line 37-39 15 removing the word "activities" and adding "community participation efforts" and replacing the 16 word "establish" with "consider" and adding "forums and other forms of citizen involvement," 17 and on lines 124-126 amending the sentence by removing "for a status report on the October 18 community meeting" and adding "for the October community dialogue" at the end. 19 Commissioner Marie Oftelie seconded the motion. Motion prevailed, with one abstention. 20 21 3. Staff/Committee Reports 22 23 3a. Visions of Success Subcommittee 24 25 Commissioner Liz Jaeger provided a summary of the May 27 Regional Human Rights 26 Commission meeting. She noted that attendance was beyond what was anticipated, especially 27 since many people could not make it before the Memorial. Day weekend. She said the presenters 28 were well prepared and well received. She thanked the planners involved and the commissioners 29 who helped at the event. 30 31 Commissioners were impressed with the resources available and the history of the Roseville 32 Human Rights Commission. They commented that it helped put the HRCs role in context of 33 where we have been and where the commission is going. Commissioners said the networking 34 time before and after the meeting was very useful to get to know others better. 35 36 Commissioners mentioned the possibility of offering accreditation hours as a way to attract more 37 people to regional meetings. The Minnesota Department of Human Rights would be responsible 3 8 to coordinate accreditation hours. 39 40 Chair Singleton read a thank you note from Mario Hernandez, expressing his appreciation for all 41 of the work by the Roseville HRC. 42 ' 43 Commissioner Oftelie offered her apology for not being able fo attend the Karen community 44 meeting. Commissioner Peg Kennedy said she appreciated the cultural sensitivity that the Police 45 and Fire Inspector showed when presenting information on some highly sensitive topics.