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Human Relations Advisory Committee
Date: 2019-12-38 Time: 7pm
Building: Town Hall Location: Berger Room
Address: 16 Lowell Street Session:
Purpose: Monthly Meeting Version: Final
Attendees: Members - Present:
David Clark, Kyung Yu, Kern Perry, Josh Goldlust
Members - Not Present:
Susan Gaskell, Anne Landry
Others Present:
Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Josh Goldlust
Josh calls meeting to order at 7:03 pm
1. Sharing Experiences
a. Great Thanksgiving holiday all around
2. Police Readout:
a. No new incidents
3. Read out from latest adhoc committee meeting (11/26)
a. Josh read draft mission statement
b. Dave shared his thoughts on the (3) potential structures for the orgs and
stressed that none are perfect: all have pros/ cons.
c. Still working on org structure and name.
4. MLK '20 event planning
a. Kerri update
i. Reached out to RCN &will share posters &flyers when they are ready
ii. Library wants a table at the event. So does Reading Cares. Believe the
ad hoc will as well. Josh mentioned it would be used to engage town
members for progress on ad hoc mission. Also RED will have a table.
Target final tables confirmed by 12/20
b. Kyung Update
i. Connected with Linda Snow Dockser for food. She will be getting
donuts from Freedom (gluten free), coffee from HoneyDew Donuts,
and Reading Coop for water
ii. There will be a combined choir across different churches
iii. Jamie Michaels will be sending Josh some ideas for themes for MLK
event. Josh- confirmed I received the email and responded
1. Made a request to Reading Community Concert Band to play
American the Beautiful instead of Star Spangled Banner as
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opening music. Some discussion with the team as to why; this
was based on past community feedback &objections.
2. Discussed using key message points around his principles of
non-violence from The King Center as part of intro and to
weave into the overall event.
3. Discussed draft posters. Agreed we should remove Reading
Rocket icon as this isn't high school specific but OK to keep
Reading town logo.
a. Kyung- can the schools print out the posters? Josh will
ask Christine Kelly if possible
c. Josh update
i. Briefly discussed '6 principles of non-violence' from The King Center as
recommended by Jamie Michaels. Josh agreed to share the link to the
website with the rest of the team. Kyung recommended including this
information into the slide presentation. All agreed. Josh asked Kyung
to remind Clergy Assoc to ask members if they want to time on the
agenda to have a reading associated to one of the King principles.
ii. Discussed rough agenda for different music groups, their order, rough
timing for each. Did not feel program would run longer than 1 hr
iii. Kyung asked if Community band would be on stage entire time. Josh
confirm they might need to move if METCO group confirmed they were
doing a dance routine.
iv. Clergy Assoc asked if there was way to promote or mention other
groups that have events or programs connected to MLK theme. Dave
asked for information on the programs and groups. No one was
present to discuss the details or provide information on the programs
or groups. Kern concerned about promoting at this event without
details; collectively everyone agreed. Collectively everyone
recommended Kyung let Clergy Assoc know that any of these groups
that are non-profits, could have a table at the event to self-promote
their events.
5. Reading residency bylaws changes
a. Active discussion about how this change could be applied and did it have to
be applicable to all committees or could it be applicable to just some. Josh
confirmed that the request from the Bylaws committed was for feedback and
'if so, under what specific circumstances' it should be applied.
b. Additional questions were raised by the collective group associated with how a
non-resident is connected to the community, to what degree they have a
vested interested in the community, who decides the level of vested interest,
when does that vested interest end, and if there would be a max percent
make-up of non-residents to residents on any committee.
c. Josh confirmed all feedback will be documented & shared in the response for
comments to the Bylaw committee.
6. Establish date for next meeting
a. Team agreed to keep meetings to first Thursday of the month
b. Confirmed it will be 1/2 @ 7pm
7. Motion to approve lune minutes: Kern moves, David 2nds, passes 4-0 (Kyung,
David, Kern, Josh)
8. Motion to adjourn at 8:25 PM: Josh moves, Kyung 2nds, motion passes with all in
favor 4-0
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