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HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
Day, November 09, 2023 – 5:30 PM
City Hall; 300 Laporte Ave, CIC Conference Room
Zoom: https://fcgov.zoom.us/j/99439209110
Webinar ID: 994 3920 9110
1. CALL TO ORDER: 5:33 PM
2. ROLL CALL
a. Board Members Present – Beth Jaeger, Barb Kistler, Phil Walker, Kevin Goff, Masood
Ahmad, Coronda Ziegler, Teresa Cribelli, Kyle Teramoto
b. Board Members Absent – Miho Yoshioka
c. Staff Members Present – Liz Messenger, Lead Equity & Inclusion Specialist, Melanie
Clark, Staff Liaison
d. Guest(s) - none
3. AGENDA REVIEW
4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - October 12, 2023
Phil walker motioned to approve the minutes from October 12, 2023. Teresa Cribelli second the
motion. The motion passed 8-0
5. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION - none
6. BUDGET REVIEW
Beth Jaeger, Commission Chair, provided a brief overview of the current budget. She noted
some of the expenses for the Microaggressions training were not yet showing and that the cost
of the awards was higher than expected.
7. NEW BUSINESS
a. SELECTION OF THE 2023 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Commission members reviewed and discussed award nominations.
Commission members discussed having more criteria about the review process. They
felt strongly that personal biases should not be included in the discussion and the
information provided in the nomination form is all that should be reviewed and discussed.
Commission members motioned to approve award nominees as discussed. Motion
passed 8-0.
All nominees will receive an email notifying of their nomination status and inviting them to
the awards ceremony.
b. FINALIZE PROGRAM FLOW AND HRC ROLES – SCHEDULE REHEARSAL
Commission members discussed the start time for the evening and reviewed the flow of
the ceremony and each members role.
Beth suggested that presenters should reach out to the recipients they will be introducing
in order to get to know them and have accurate speaking points.
Coronda suggested having food tables along the front of CIC room instead in the usual
space.
Beth would like to schedule a brief one hour zoom meeting with Commission members to
go over the schedule and what each will be saying. They agreed to meet on Thursday,
November 30 at 6pm.
Melanie will send a calendar invite and will post the public meeting notice.
Melanie will make arrangements for Spanish and ASL interpretation if requested and will
make arrangements to have the event video recorded.
c. FINALIZE HUMAN RIGHTS DAY PROCLAMATION
The HRC reviewed the Human Rights Day proclamation that will be read at the
December 5th ceremony. Kevin will receive the proclamation on behalf of the HRC.
d. FINALIZE HRC 2024 WORK PLAN – DUE NOVEMBER 30TH
Coronda motioned to approve the 2024 Work Plan. Teresa second the motion. Motion
passed 8-0.
8. OLD BUSINESS
9. STAFF REPORTS
a. COMMITTEE REPORTS:
• EDUCATION OUTREACH – EVALUATION RESULTS: “UNMASKING
MICROAGGRESSIONS” PROGRAM – OCTOBER 5TH
33 responses were received in response to the evaluation. 75% of the feedback
received said that the event met or exceeded their expectations.
Other feedback received was:
• Have food that folks can grab and go instead of needing to make or build
• People would like more training on white supremacy as opposed to white
privilege
• People are loving the ability to access these trainings from the City and
are wanting more
Melanie recommended recording these types of training in the future.
Commission members agreed.
The location was good due to the space and parking.
Barb and Coronda will talk about recommendations for future trainings. Teresa
would like to be part of these conversations, especially around white
supremacy.
• MEDIA/COMMUNITY RECOGNITION COMMITTEE
• GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
City Council elections were this week. Next City Council meeting is next week.
Land Use Code is a big topic. Barb is hearing rumblings that the community
wants to undue this once again. This is important to the Commission as it ties
into housing and the availability of affordable housing.
The biggest issue is that the ordinance makes it easier to create ADUs followed
by U+2.
Beth & Barb attended the CSU symposium designed around data networking.
The event Beth and Barb are proposing regarding the DEIJ Networking event
will be very different than what CSU did.
HRC’s DEIJ networking event will take place on February 4 th. Barb
would like to get the subcommittee together to start planning.
Coronda, Phil and Beth volunteered for the subcommittee. Melanie
will reserve Senior Center from 2-4 pm.
• EXECUTIVE – DISCUSSION RE: SOCIAL GATHERING WITH THE LARIMER
COUNTY EDI ADVISORY BOARD
Larimer County has a similar board called the Larimer County Diversity, Equity,
and Inclusion Advisory Board.
Commission members and Larimer County would like to have a social function
to bring the two together with spouses. The idea is just to meet the other board.
Beth likes the idea of a social gathering and then having a joint meeting to
discuss activities.
Barb will work on getting this scheduled. Commission members preferred an
evening or weekend time. This would take place after the first of the year.
10. ANNOUNCEMENTS
Beth and Barb will be meeting with Laura Valdez of FCMoD and to discuss a human library
event in 2024.
They will also be meeting with Jenny Lopez Filkins the Attorney Liaison to the Commission to
discuss gun control/ban at City wide events.
11. NEXT STEPS
a. MEETING ACTION ITEMS
b. NEXT MEETING – JANUARY 11, 2024 (DECEMBER 14, 2023 MEETING CANCELED)
12. ADJOURNMENT
a. 7:27 pm
Minutes approved by the Chair and a vote of the Board/Commission on 01/11/2024
1/09/2023 – MINUTES