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Present:
HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
March 12, 1992
MINUTES
Gary Wells
Elaine Boni
Linda Beardsley
Rickie Calkins
Harold Wallace
Alysa Stanton
Man Oberoi
Mary Daniel
Rudy Garcia
Staff:
Guests:
Jaime Mares
Lt. P. Kelly Steve Roy, City Attorney
Becky O'Donnell
Ann Azari, Council Liaison
Meeting was called to order by Gary Wells at 5:35 p.m. A motion was made to accept
the February minutes. Motion was accepted by all members present.
The March HRC meeting will focus on the police citizen review process. Only the
subcommittees with updates will be reporting on their status.
Human Relations Award
As of March 12th, the HRA has received 1 response from the public for nominations for
the Human Relations Award. It was agreed that in order to expedite the process, the
members of the HRC will place phone calls to organizations on the mailing list, as well
as resubmitting the press release - with follow-up to the Coloradoan and Triangle Review.
The new due date for the nominations will be April 8th. Becky will provide the members
with the mailing list of organizations, along with extra nomination forms and flyers.
CED
Linda will be in charge of presenting the "Voices" program to the City of Fort Collins
Employee Development Department. Interest in the translation of forms project has
increased in the City departments. Several departments are requesting that their forms
be translated into various languages. However, the program will translate forms in three
languages: Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. Some department representatives noted
concern for the accuracy of the translation. The CED will try to find persons within the
City and/or community who might be able to translate Spanish, a suggestion of
contacting Andy Gavaldon at the Public Defender's office was recommended.
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HRC minutes
March 1992
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Police Report
The Health and Safety Committee met to discuss the recommendations that were
submitted by the HRC. Ann indicated that the Health and Safety Committee would like
the HRC to revisit this important issue. The committee would like a consensus from the
HRC on what process they would recommend to the Health and Safety Committee. City
Attorney, Steve Roy provided the HRC will the following City Charter regulations:
■ City Charter requires City Manger to make final employment decisions.
■ City Charter hinders City's ability to defend disciplinary decisions when there is a
significant difference of opinion between the HRC and the Chief as to the
appropriate discipline.
■ Meetings held on personnel/discipline must be closed to public unless the
employee(s) waive closure. Complaints cannot attend closed session except to
provide their own testimony/comments.
The HRC spent several hours discussing different options on what role the HRC should
play in the citizen complaint process. The final option selected by the HRC will be sent
to the Health and Safety Committee.
Meeting is adjourned at 7:45 pm.
Gary Wells, Chair Rudy Garcia, Secretary