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HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Minutes from February 8th 1994 Commissioners Present; Dave Bowers, John Treadwell Commissioners Absent; Ed Sheppard, Gwen Willems, Ted Johnson Guests; Sue Gehrz The meeting was called to-order at 7:OOPM Business: 1. The minutes from the January 18th meeting were approved, and no changes were made. 2. Ideas, pros and cons, and discussion on Commission name change was tabled until more commissioners could be present. 3. John would like to obtain a list of local businesses and other groups that may be interested in receive mailings from the H.R.C. The League is encouraging having our own list of mailings. 4. Dave presented two drafts from Gwen Willems. The first draft was for a brochure for the HRC concerning the ADA, outlining some ideas that we may wish to incorporate into the final brochure. The second draft was concerning a letter to the City Council for the expenditure of HRC budgeted funds for the attendance to the International Conference in New Brunswick, Canada in June of 1994. Gwen received support form the other commissioners present and our Council representative Sue Gehrz for the sum of 100.00 dollars to help defray the cost of the conference. 5. Discussion was held concerning the publishing of commissioners phone numbers in the brochure. It was felt that the City Hall number and or the Chairpersons number should be the only ones listed. 6. Dave will ask Susan Hoyt about the advertisements concerning new commission members and the recruitment of a student member. 7. Discussion took place on the training for mediation and no fault for the commissioners. It was thought that for the amount of cases that may present themselves at this time, it may be more advantages for the City to hire a mediation service when a case presents itself. It was felt that the commissioners time would be better spent in other community areas. However, there are several commissioners that have an interest in this area and would like to pursue that interest on their own. Sue Gehrz will bring this topic up before the City Council to obtain their ideas on this subject. There is the possibility that we could share mediation and no -fault services with the Commissions from the surrounding communities. Dave will look into this for our next meeting. 8. It was felt that we should be proactive in our Non violent resolution training. John and Gwen may be interested in obtaining information on this topic from other sources to find out if and where there is training for this. Sue Gehrz is willing to help with training