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Board - Committee - Commission - Council:
Human Relations Advisory Committee
Date: 2019-01-07 Time: 7pm
Building: Town Hall Location: Berger Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street Session:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
Kerr! Riley, David Clark, Kyung Yu, Heather McLean, Susan Gaskell, Josh
Goldlust
Members- Not Present:
Elaine Webb
Others Present: Tall Shorr, Carlo Bacci, Janice Grant Menes
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Heather McLean
Josh calls meeting to order at 7:10pm
1. Sharing Experiences
a. Carlo Bacci announces he is running for Select Board and is attending to listen
and get to know the committee
2. Student Liaison report
a. Tali is working on finding students to pass the baton to as she is graduating
this spring
b. AWOD meeting went well, Ms. Lynch sent an email to Heather outlining
students who want to participate/volunteer for MILK Day
3. Police Readout:
a. Press release Issues on Parker solved incident
b. Incident with Market Basket employee's car being vandalized with racist
graffiti
c. Police have new Anti-Defamation League contact and plan to begin new
training soon
4. MILK 2019 event planning and logistics
a. Janice Grant Manes volunteered to help students with poems/readings
b. Sign Up Genius link distributed for poster hanging
c. Expenses discussed:
I. Posters were $60 to print in color
!!. Breakfast is being negotiated by Josh, will likely be around $250 from
Honey Dew, working to see if we can secure same discount as last
year
d. Programs need to be locked down by end of week, will be printed by
superintendent's office as usual (free)
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e. Heather and Josh to work on sending invites to elected officials for event via
email
f. Day of volunteers needed: Greeters, Table Coordinators, Email collectors
g. Josh to write/read opening remarks
h. Heather to work on making copies of HRAC Niers to distribute at event
I. Laura Wilson request to sell Hate Has No Home Here signs at a table at the
event
1. Heather moves to allow Laura Wilson to display Hate Has No Home
Here signs at a table to promote her organization's purpose, but not
expressly to sell signs, if she wishes; Kyung seconds, 6 in favor,
motions passes
S. Review and vote on past meeting minutes
a. Heather moves to approve 12/6 minutes, David seconds, 5 in favor, Josh
abstains since he was not present
6. Next meeting confirmed as 1/29/19
7. Josh moved to adjourn at 8:30pm; David seconds, 6 in favor
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