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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Human Relations Advisory Oomittee
Date: 2018-08-09 Time: 7pm
Building: Town Hall Location: Berger Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street Session:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Heather McLean, Josh Goldlust, Susan Gaskell, Kern Riley
Members - Not Present:
Elaine Webb, David Clark, Kyung Yu
Others Present:
Tali Shorr, Andy Friedmann, Cadence Thomases, Lieutenant Brown
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Heather McLean
Josh calls meeting to order at 7:00pm
1. Sharing Experiences/public Input (7pm)
a. Discuss the "it's ok to be" signs that were put up around town,
the"it's ok to be white"versions with potential white supremacy affiliation
were removed by police, reportedly
b. Mattress vandalism on police blotter 7/3 discussed
c. Will follow up with Deputy Chief Clark to confirm whether these
incidents would be reported to HRAC
d. Discussion on newly noticed prevalence of books on Hitler and
"the dumbing down of America"
2. Updates from members reaching out to town groups for interest in Anti-Semitic show
ofsupport
a. Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, Rec Dept, Lions Club, Chamber of
Commerce, and Rotary Club were contacted
b. Rotary Club has invited us to speak at a meeting;Chamber of
Commerce is taking the request back to their board'
c. Committee will brainstorm on more groups to reach out to
3. Brainstorming activity with the group on potential options to pursue-We need to
commit to an activityl
a. Upstander Training
b. Community Book Reading followed by a discussion
c. Anything that gives extra credit will draw students
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i. Potentially we could reach out to: History Dept,
Honor Society, Heather Lombardo(Teacher who sponsored Bill Russell
project), Religious Youth groups, Diversion programs through RCASA
d. Video/movie showing
e. Walk/march/candlelight vigil from library to town common
f. Speakers
g. Multicultural Food Day
i. Food trucks?
h. Reach out to new HS principal
i. Do so through Elaine
4. Fall Street Faire planning
a. Motion to participate in the 2018 Fall Street Faire and purchase
supplies for kid activities
i. Heather moves, Susan 2nds, 4 in favor, motion
passes
b. Heather to reach out to Linda re: activity
c. Committee to research other"easy" paper/marker activities
S. Brainstorm ideas for getting involved in Reading's 375' celebration
a. Susan to connect with Reading 365 committee
6. Any additional agenda items as come up
7. Review of upcoming action plans and establish date of next meeting
a. Next meeting date will be 9/6 (usual first Thursday)
8. Vote on approval of minutes from past meetings if possible
a. Motion to approve minutes from July 5, 2018
i. Heather moves, Josh 2nds, 4 in favor, motion
passes
9. Adjourn
a. Motion to adjourn 8:15pm
i. Josh moves, Kern 2nds, 4 in favor, motion
passes
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