Human Relation Commission Meeting

MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING _____________________________________________________________________________________ URBANA HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION DATE: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 TIME: 5:30 p.m. PLACE: Urbana City Council Chambers Urbana City Building 400 South Vine Street Urbana, Illinois 61801 _____________________________________________________________________________________ MEMBERS PRESENT: Frances Rigberg Baker, Daniel Larson, Peter Resnick, Rizwan Uddin MEMBERS NOT PRESENT: Lisa Mosley, Eric Smith, Aisha Lamb Sobh STAFF PRESENT: Todd Rent 1. CALL TO ORDER, ROLL CALL, AND DECLARATION OF QUORUM a. Chair Larson called this meeting of the Urbana Human Relations Commission to order at 5:40 p.m. Roll was taken. A quorum was present. 2. APPROVAL OF AGENDA a. It was suggested by Mr. Rent that the Old Business and New Business agenda items be undertaken after the Staff Report. There were no objections. Mr. Resnick made a motion to approve the agenda as amended. Ms. Rigberg Baker seconded the motion. Chair Larson called for a voice vote. All were in favor. The motion carried unanimously. 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES a. Mr. Resnick made a motion that the Commission approve the draft minutes of the April 9, 2014 meeting as presented. Mr. Uddin seconded the motion. Chair Larson called for a voice vote. All were in favor. The motion carried unanimously. 4. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION a. There was none. 5. STAFF REPORT a. Approval of EEO Workforce Statistics i. There were no EEO workforce statistics to approve at this meeting. b. HRO Activity Report i. Mr. Rent reviewed the monthly activity report with the Commission, addressing Commission comments and questions during the course of his review. c. Budget Report i. Mr. Rent reviewed the monthly Budget Report. Since the previous meeting of the Commission there were no changes in the budget.  6. NEW BUSINESS a. EEO Compliance Review: A & R Contractors/Services i. Mr. Rent reported that A & R Mechanical Contractors/A & R Mechanical Services had not submitted its compliance materials as of the date of this meeting. He asked that the review be tabled until the June 2014 meeting of the Human Relations Commission. There were no objections. 7. OLD BUSINESS a. Motion in Support of Vehicle for Hire Ordinance Findings i. The Commission and City staff discussed the draft Motion in Support of Vehicle for Hire Ordinance Findings. During the course of discussion, a number of changes to the draft motion’s language were requested by the Commission. Mr. Rent recommended that the Commission assign one of their number to edit the draft motion and report back to the Commission as a whole. Mr. Resnick recommended that a special Commission meeting be held in order to edit the draft motion, to which the Commission agreed by consensus. It was suggested by Mr. Rent that Commissioners forward their desired changes to the Human Relations Office. 8. ANNOUNCEMENTS a. There were none. 9. ADJOURNMENT a. There being no further business to come before the Commission, Chair Larson declared the meeting to be adjourned at 6:10 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Tony Weck Recording Secretary 2