March Minutes
Richfield Human Rights Commission
Monthly Meeting Minutes
March 4, 2014
Members Present:
Sean Hayford Oleary Debbie Eng
Jeff Wright Mark Westergaard
Emilia Gonzalez Avalos Elizabeth Wendt
Ranee Skinner Nancy Roberts
Also Present:
Jay Henthorne – Richfield Staff Liaison
1. Meeting called to order by Chair Sean Hayford Oleary at 6:30PM.
2. Approval of Agenda
a.) Unanimously approved as amended to add “7.(c) 2013 Annual Report”
3. Approval of Minutes
a.) January
i. Unanimously approved
b.) February
i. Unanimously approved as amended to correct spelling of member’s names.
4. Reports
a.) Chair’s report: created contact list for commission members.
b.) Treasurer’s report: $174.75. Elizabeth (former Treasurer) official passed on materials
to Nancy (current Treasurer).
c.) Secretary's reports: Awaiting receipt of prior Meeting Minutes to create Google Zip
Drive
d.) Vice Chair’s reports: Discussed getting school board liaison and becoming more
active with the School Board. A coalition between the two organizations would benefit the
Richfield Community and hopefully improve our response to the latest school test reports. Please
see the report attached.
e.) Liaison reports
i. Jay Henthorne: Will start working on press releases for Gene and March
Jacobson Award.
5. Unfinished Business
a.) Richfield Social Media policy: Commission will wait and see how current policy
plays out
b.) Safe Schools: Commission unanimously passed resolution to support the safe schools
initiative. Please see the Resolution attached.
c.) Turnout plan: tabled to next month
6. New Business
a.) Discussed having a table at Unity in the Community. Jeff will take the lead.
b.) Discussed revising the bylaws as proposed by Elizabeth. Elizabeth will continue to
work on the proposed revisions and a revised draft of the bylaw swill be voted on at the next
meeting
7. Open Forum & Announcements
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a.) City’s New Commission Member Orientation is on Wednesday, March 12 at
6:30PM. ALL COMMISSIONERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
8. Next meeting: April 1, 2014, 6:30PM
9. Adjournment at 8:05PM