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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHuman Relations Commission - Minutes - 03/23/2000HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION MINUTES Regular Meeting - March 23, 2000 Human Resources Dept. Conference Room, 200 W. Mountain Ave. 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. IICouncil Liaison: Bill Bertschy I Staff Liaison: Gabe Serenyi Ph. 221-6826 II Chairperson: Bob Lenk Phone: 493-5809 A regular meeting of the Human Relations Commission was held on March 23, 2000 in the Human Resources Conference Room, 200 W. Mountain Ave. HRC Members present: Tim Daugherty, Dan Devine, Mary Gomez, Shion Hung, and Bob Lenk. HRC Members absent: Man Oberoi and Barry Siff. Staff Member present: Gabe Serenyi, HRC Staff Liaison L Meeting was called to order by Bob Lenk, Chair, at 5:41 p.m Gabe Serenyi announced that Marlene Hines of the Northwest Coalition for Human Dignity would not be able to attend today and make her presentation because of an injury. She requested that she be allowed to make the presentation at the April meeting. II. Bob Lenk asked for a motion to approve the minutes of the regular meeting held on February 9, 2000. Tim Daugherty made the motion to approve, and was seconded by Mary Gomez. The minutes were approved with no changes. M. Subcommittee Reports A. Committee for Executive Delegation CED). Bob Lenk reported that the CED had met and drafted the revised HRC by-laws that members had received in their packets. A discussion took place about the changes the CED had proposed to the by-laws. During that discussion, the decision was made to re -name the subcommittee to Executive Delegation Committee (EDC). HRC members made a number of suggestions for other changes which Bob will incorporate in a revised draft. Bob raised the question if the revised by-laws would have to be approved by Council. Gabe Serenyi indicated that he did not believe so, but he would check with Assistant City Attorney Greg Tempel. Bob Lenk asked for a motion to approve the by-laws with the agreed -upon changes. Tim Daugherty made the motion to approve, and was seconded by Shion Hung. Gabe Serenyi asked if members also wanted to revise the HRC brochure. After some discussion, the decision Human Relations Commission March 23, 2000 Page 2 was made that the brochure did not serve a particular need at this time; consequently, it did not need to be revised. Gabe indicated that he would recycle all the old brochures because they were very out of date. B. Police Subcommittee. Mary Gomez reported that the sub -committee did not meet. Gabe Serenyi indicated that he would follow-up with Lt. Karen Carlson regarding training for the members of the subcommittee who wanted to serve as citizen liaisons. C. Diversity Subcommittee. Bob Leak reported that the subcommittee did not meet. Barry Siff had asked that the subcommittee meeting be postponed until after he had an opportunity to meet with Barb Spalding, the new City Human Rights Officer. Bob indicated that he had not heard if the meeting had yet taken place. D. Human Relations Awards. Dan Devine reported that the subcommittee had not met since January, but that various subcommittee members were working on different assignments related to the awards breakfast. Gabe Serenyi placed two display ads in the Coloradoan, which had appeared during the last two weeks. The ads had generated quite a bit of interest so far. Dan had written a brief item for the City News, which is distributed with the utility bills. It seems, however, that the article was not included in the March edition. Gabe indicated that he would make copies of all the nominations and send them to the subcommittee members along with the evaluation scoring sheets. Gabe also reminded members that they would need to get the names of the winners to the company that provides the plaques no later than seven working days prior to the awards breakfast. Tim Daugherty reported that William King, the University of Colorado Ombudsman, had indicated an interest in being the guest speaker at the breakfast. Before committing, he wanted to discuss the matter with Bob Lenk. Bob indicated that he had that conversation with Bill, and Bill agreed to be the speaker. IV. Old Business Dan Devine reported that he had drafted a letter for Bill Bertschy's signature recognizing the volunteer contributions of HRC members. The intent is to send the letters to the workplace supervisors of HRC members. Bob Leak suggested that Dan contact Bill Bertschy to find out if Bill would be open to signing such a letter. V. New Business None VI. Announcements • Bob Leak announced that he had been invited, along with the other board and commissions chairpersons, to a luncheon meeting with the mayor and city manager next week. • Bob also reported that there will be an all -day program on March 24th at CSU entitled "Imagine Colorado - A Multi -Cultural Heritage." Bob invited all members to attend. The meeting adjourned at 6:47 p.m.