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Human rights commission
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
8/17/21
7/20/2021
1. Call to order
1a. Roll call
Members present Virginia Mancini, Katie Lawler, Paul Baudin, Jaime Chismar, Li
Livdahl, Andre Barajas, Thomas Scott , Avi Olisky , Emily Buchholz
Members absent: Paul Baudin, Astein Osei
Staff present: Darius Gray, Nichole Salaam
Guests:
1. Meeting minutes approval:
Passed unanimously
Avi motion
Katie 2nd to approve
2. Tonight’s agenda:
Passed unanimously
Jamie motion
Avi 2nd
3. Council Agenda Items
4. Hate Crimes
5. Kudos
Astein had a conversation with Jewish students. Positive conversation happening.
6. Council Agenda Items
Race Equity in developer
Seeds feeds Harvest Festival
7. Wooddale Station Redevelopment – Anderson Companies and Saturday properties
Mark from Saturday Pr operties presented on the Wooddale – Developer project team
The City owns a portion of the Site so this is very unique opportun ities.
Monson – wants to ensure the City has opportunity to ensure the needs to meet the
community.
Overview of the properties and the uses.
10% AMI 60
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20% AMI 50
280 between East and West
Retail will be part of the project
Is housing close to services –
The specific question is how do we reach other folks who will benefit from the
affordable housing?
*Wayside
*Perspective
*STEP
* Attending each commission meeting
* Schools
*Friends of the Arts
Public Space – How do they program the space?
Space to do public engagement.
They will be providing free wifi.
How will they share the info about their property
The City has an affordable housing dashboard on the website.
Job placement – they will work with MBE & WBE
Does this have a event manager – if you want to turn it in to a community space.
They want to find a local to do the program
8. Bylaws – City leadership
Nichole gave a overview of new vision for the HRC.
Want to ensure that HRC is connected to the strategic priorities.
How do you serve as advocates –
HRC is encouraged to help shape the works.
Is there a disconnect between the City code and bylaws
First stab at bylaws – was focused on language rather than operationalized action.
Code of conduct and operations
Concern that commission is made up of mostly cis-gender white folks – we should be
seeking more diverse folks
Commission should aid in recruiting for the commission.
If you were to list the 2 or 3 outcomes from the bylaws?
Emily – Have a bit of anchor bridge the gap between the City code and what we are
actually doing.
Virginia –
What can we do to make communicate clearer for new commissioners?
Establishing a process that is consistent for when people come on.
Continuity
Baking in certain frameworks that become a natural part of the process.
A repository that exist and no central archive
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Outcomes- the needs of the groups and the bylaws – where in the structure can we
make it something.
We need to have some institutional knowledge.
Nicholes – Outcomes
Bridging the city code and what HRC is supposed to do.
Provide a framework and structure for onboarding new commissioners
Where do we store the information.
What background info do we need for the commission.
How do we share out things?
9. Conversion Therapy Update
10. Summer of Action Planning and Discussion
11. Bias hate crimes follow up
12. Subcommittee
13. New Business
14. Adjournment
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Darius Gray, liaison Virginia Mancini , chair member