Human Rights Committee

Beverly Human Rights Committee MINUTES Thursday, March 9th, 2023 at 7:00 PM I . r, ,; , ·., • • -~ \., j https://beverlyhu manrights.org/ Meeting called to order at 7:10PM Roll Call of Members • In attendance were Paul Lanzikos, Police Chief John Lelacheur, Kitia Fisher, Mindy Dippolito, Paul Goodwin, Gabrielle Montevecchi, Leah Jones • Guest, member of the public: Kate Jorgenson Land Acknowledgement read by Mndy Dippolito Review and Approval of February Meeting Minutes Recap of recent events • Wangari Fahari has been named the new City of Beverly Director of Equity and Inclusion . We welcome her into her new role and look forward to partnering with her in our work in the community. • Leah suggested that we plan an "on boarding" meeting with Wangari in order to provide her with historical information on the work of this committee as well as help bring her up to date on upcoming events on the HRC annual calendar • Chief Lalacheur additionally commented that Wangari will be invited to any upcoming department head meetings as well Discussion • Leah proposed writing a public statement in recognition of Trans Visibility Day this month. Gabrielle suggested that this could be a joint proposal including BPS. Leah will work on drafting this statement and Gabrielle offered to assist in the writing. • Discussion of-Beverly Pride events. Proposed date of June 2 for Pride flag raising at City Hall and the first week of June for BPS. • Proposal by Paul Lanzikos to host an upcoming meeting at the Council on Aging. The city welcomes Chris Gomez Farewell as the new Director of The Council on Aging. • On March 10th the MAH RC will host a discussion of the acknowledgement of Indigenous Peoples Day • Discussion of HRC finance, the current account balance is $1,314.  • Discussion of the cost of maintaining the website. Kitia proposed presenting receipts from the cost of the year long website maintenance to the city for reimbursement • Any donations to HRC must go through the City Clerk and approved by City Council in order to be added to the budget Upcoming events • 3/30 Transgender Visibility Day o Gabrielle shared a flier with the HRC members with information on the upcoming Danvers Trans Visibility event. • 4/3 World Autism Awareness Day, flier has been circulated amongst all the Beverly Public Schools. Paul will share this flier on the HRC website • 4/30 Black Excellence SK o The SK is the main fund raiser for the Northshore Juneteenth Association https://north-shore-juneteenth-assoc.constantcontactsites.com/ We would like to register a BHRC run team and recruit people to run with us that day • June 2 (proposed date} Beverly Pride Flag Raising at City Hall Open BHRC positions • We currently have 4 open positions. Joscelyn will check on the past applicants(Sheri Heller, Purvi Harley and Kehinde Okeke} to make sure to make sure they are being considered by Mayor Cahill Meeting Adjourned at 8:00PM