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Commission on the Status of Women
Minutes
March 16, 1998
We lacked a voting quorum so it was not possible to conduct any formal business.
Present: Danielle Johnson, Ruth Weatherford, Lena Sunthanker, Beth Fitzgerald, Lu
Fisk, Dana Hiatt
Liaisons: Laurie Fonken-Joseph
Excused Absences: JoAnn Ginal, Audrey Faulkner, Nancy Meginniss, Lynne Warner
Absent: Rita Anastasio, Becki Fosha, Christinia Eala-American Horse
L Call to order: Meeting was called to order 6:14
H.. Minutes: Approved as written
111. Review Agenda
IV. Announcements:
A. Multicultural Community Retreat invitation was passed around. Invitations
from the Multicultural Commission for the March 28, 1998 conference were
handed out.
B. Mail was reviewed and passed around. Add local chapter of Zonta
International to our mailing list.
C. Diane Lathrop has resigned, discussed sending her a letter of thanks for all her
years of service and the work on the study.
D. Danielle announced Community Law Day on May 1, 1998 12:00-2:00 at the
Lincoln Center cost is $20.00. Justice Rebecca Love-Kourlis will be the
speaker. She has been very active in the area of justice and gender.
V. Business:
A. HRC report: Lu Fisk. Citizen review board for the police has 2 options for
selection of members to sit on the board. Option one is that the board shall be
appointed by City Council, with names given to the council by City Manager
and 2 council members. Option two is that the 5 member board would be
appointed by the City Council.
B. Report on Ten year update study. Discussed sending out a copy of the study
when we get it to all members for their review. Commission should have the
information by the end of the month.
C. Report from the Marketing committee: Beth handed out everything except
for the transportation. She handed out a compilation of all the other sections
and showed an example of the transparencies, introduction and statistics.
Asked members to review this in its current stage, fine tune it, think about it
and look at it from the perspective of a presenter. Asked members to look at
what we have pulled out of the report, the synopsis and see what areas we
need to fine tune. Beth would love ideas on the transparencies. Discussed
having Karen come back and explain the numbers and statistics. Need to find
the information she put together. Beth said it would be really beneficial to
have Doreen, Diane, Audrey, Karen and Libby come to one of our regular
meetings to explain what they have done. Also combine this with a big thank
you to them. Danielle will call Audrey and see how they are coming along
and see if they wuld be willing to do this. Looking at May as a target date.
The marketing committee needs to schedule one more session on
transporation. Will schedule this after Beth talks to JoAnn. Laurie will pull
out all the notes from the Commission on the study for Beth. Send out update
of report with a cover letter prepared by Danielle to memebers to explain
what is needed when members look at reoprt. Look at what type of editorial
information is being looked for. Also look at what we are asking the experts
and make sure that this is clear in the information we send out.
D. Report on affordable housing: Rita was unable to attend, will report next
month.
E. Report on Women's History month and essay contest: The commission
thought of some additional judging criteria for next year and the peramiters to
consider in the future. Also mentioned that Marjorie Taggert from senior
center would like to see more on the role over the years of women in this
community. Look at including senior women. Also look at using the
Coloradoan as a way to get out information on women's history. Laurie will
talk to Kathleen Duff and see if we can get our own reporter.
F. Report on Human Rights Ordinance: Laurie shared that both ordinances were
passed on second reading. A notice has been filed with the City Clerk to
repeal both.
G. Boards and commission meeting minutes: Danielle is not getting minutes
from personnel board yet. No one had any issues to address from the minutes
they got.
H. Other: Discussed the importance of having all commission members attend
the meetings. Need to revisit the bylaws and see if there is need to revise the
attendance requirement. Important to have more members here with all the
work that needs to be done.
I. Volunteer for refreshments for April 20, 1998 meeting is: Lena.
VL Adjourned 7:00