Okay. Thanks. All right. So, it's 5:15 on Monday, June 23rd. So, I'll call to order this um new home human rights commission meeting. The first item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from the 52825 meeting. Those are attached. I'll give everybody a minute to review.
Just go ahead and speak up if you have questions or comments. Any questions or comments on the minutes from 5 28? If not, I would entertain a motion to approve those minutes.
I make a motion to approve the June or sorry May 28th meeting meeting minutes. Do we have a second? Second. Any other discussion? All approved say I. I. Oppose. Same
sign. That motion passes. Um and then next on the agenda, the budget. So the first is the current financial report which is attached. Um you'll see that some more items have come out. We got the parade registration fee for Bavarian Blast, the fair booth fee, and the
Bavarian Blast 5K sponsorship. And we still have 92% of the budget for the year. Any questions on that? Okay. And the sec second item under budget is the 2026 request. So the
request for $9,000 was submitted. The work session is scheduled for July 15th. The prelim budget to be approved is attached. So again, we're requesting 3,900 for community events and promotional materials, 500 for the human rights award, 24,00 for the living without
limits series, and 2,200 for the program expenses for a total of $9,000. Any questions on that item? Mayor, are we supposed to have somebody a representative at that work session? I feel like I remember that from the last
meeting. You could, but I don't think so. Okay. You know, the comm is generally uh the people that I have seen come to those commission or those meetings have been people outside of the city commissions like some of the not forprofits, etc.
Okay. Awesome. Thank you. If that's not true, I'll let you know. Okay, perfect. All right, so then we're down to the events committee for the HRC sponsored events. So, first is the immigration forum that's presented by Copal. That's tomorrow, June 24th at 6:30 at the Newm
Library. The flyer is attached. This went out um on the city website and it was emailed to the city council, the new PD, and the sheriff. Um and it's been shared on Facebook and social media. So hopefully we'll have a good turnout. Um they're going to live
stream it. The link is attached to the flyer so people could access it ahead of time. I think we're all set to go on that. Any questions or discussion? Um and then the next item on that events committee is the welcoming week event which is planned for September 19th,
2025 from 5:30 to 7:30 in the parking lot. Um set up to begin at 4:30. So, right now we have um from the items I had, we have two food trucks confirmed. I'm still working to confirm a total of four food trucks. So,
I've been communicate communicating with them. Park and Wreck on the Go is coming. I'm going to touch base with them to see if they can get the bounce house. They wanted to wait until it was closer. If not, then we're going to rent a bounce house. Um we still need the flyer so we can start sending that out for people for organizations that want
to participate. Um Casey was working on that. So, I'll touch base with her on that. Um, we'd like to get it out and distribute it because it has the link so um other organizations can just set up a table and we just want to get an idea of how many people are coming. Do you have any updates on your items? Yeah, I have
the have a contract that can be I need to return it. I wanted to make sure that we're all good to go for the the restrooms and everything. Lisa has that. She's seen it. Um, we can leave it up over the weekend cuz I'll pick it up uh Monday and Chris confirmed that that was
okay, Dalton. So, awesome. So, we're good. I What I just still have to do is get chair uh chairs, tables. I don't know. Is there anywhere else in the city we can rent those from? Reason I'm asking if we need to get the bounce house from Mano, then we can just get table and chairs from the same place.
Yep. If we don't need to, I'd rather just stay in New Stay in New. I don't know. I feel like there has to be some place, but it's like tables and chairs that we could Yeah. that we could rent or use. I don't We brought them last time, so I don't know if you want to do that again. We could. We just wanted
more this time. Yeah. So, that was the only thing. I wanted like some banquet tables and some Yeah. Like from you know, A to Z Rental has them. But they do. Yeah, they do. It just if we didn't also need to get the bounce house, I wouldn't want to go to if we can get so
if we can resource them from somewhere else, I guess within town in town. I feel like I asked last year if there was any like anything from the city we could use and I think Lisa said no. So we'd have to look for a rental. I'm not sure. Okay. When you said a toz, I thought you meant a zenia. Sorry. Oh no. A to Z. I
almost said A to Zenia because it rolls off the tongue. Shout out to them. But no. um a toz in Mano, which is I think where the bounce house last year came from. So um it's fine if we have to do that. I can get them. I just I can we
can do some research and see if you can find them in town. Perfect. I would suggest reaching out to Joey Shugo Park and Rick just to see if Okay. They might have some available that maybe they aren't the the um you know the premium
ones that they use indoors, but they might have that's they're not Yeah, that's fine. They can be out be outdoors. Perfect. Um and then are you still I think I sent you an email to see if your partner could do music again. Oh yeah.
Yeah, he can. Yeah, he's good. Okay, perfect. So that's good. And we have the same like the electricity I confirm with Lisa that we can use on the city building like we did last year. Um we talked about a tent possibly cuz I remember you guys were like baking in the sun last
and you know we have one actually. So we I'll probably bring it for whoever wants it. Yeah. Whether it's us or another group. Yeah. It was a little little toasty. A little toasty. I mean I think we're right on track for that event. Um, I might reach out if anybody has thoughts on food trucks if I
can give people the list. I've asked already. I'm just having trouble getting answers back from some of them, but I have a few more to try. I'm just trying to do one at a time because we're trying to get a variety of cuisine, so I don't want to I don't want to do all at once and then get all of the same thing. So that, but I'll reach out if I need help
if anybody has thoughts. Also, I um we haven't gotten here yet, but it's relevant to this part of the I was supposed to go through the city council meeting and I saw that they did approve they put an addendum to May's meeting and they approved the 30 parking lots
that we needed for this event. Awesome. So, that's good. That's the only up that's the only thing that was relevant to us. So, perfect. So, yeah. So, that I mean we're we're way ahead of schedule, so just keep trucking along. Any other questions on welcoming week?
All right. So, then we're on to the events committee with for the participating events. So, first is the Bavarian Blast 5K run um coordinated by the wellness collective. That's the 19th of July. We did already pay for the sponsorship donation. Um so, we just have to decide what we
would like cuz the um our logo will go on the bags. Correct. Yep. And the t-shirts. And the t-shirts. Um, we'll just have to decide if we want to put anything else in the bags and just get that to them. So, we will have a meeting.
We will not have a meeting before then. So, I can work on getting that stuff done. I'll maybe just coordinate with you for contact and then we can get whatever to them. Um, any questions on that?
Bavarian Blast Parade, which is Sunday, July 20th. We did pay the registration fee. We need volunteers. Does anybody have an update on that? We can walk. We can My family can walk. I feel like
we did. Did we do a sign up with the last year like we did just so we can have an idea and I don't know if we want to walk or if there's anybody with an available vehicle. I am out of town that weekend. I am as well.
make a note. I'm going to make a note to just who's on this events committee on the participating. I think I am too. Yeah. Okay. Although I think I've been out of time for all of the meetings. Okay. I wonder if we should ask Lisa to just
throw a quick one together just to like shore up who's going to be at the parade and what vehicle or we don't need to use a vehicle, but just what the plan is. So, we'll ask Lisa to throw a meeting together quick before that since we don't have another HRC meeting before the parade.
Sound okay? Okay. Um, new all night out which is Thursday, July 31st. We submitted the registration form. It's at German Park. The rain location is a civic center. Um, so we'll just need a couple volunteers to that too. And maybe we'll if we have Lisa set
up a meeting, we can just do you guys could just do a volunteer for all three things and then good to go. I should be able to do that one cuz I'll be here that night. But yeah, we just throw together a volunteer sign up. So then we just have an idea of who's coming. And then Brown County Fair, Wednesday,
August 6th through Sunday, August 10th. The registration fee has been paid. And again, volunteers are needed for that as well. And then the South Central Minnesota Pride Fest parade and Festival, which is Saturday, September 6th parade. And then
um which is free participation. And then the festival vendor 12 to 4 that registration fee is $45 until July 14th. Discuss interest in participating in parade andor exhibitor booth and that information is attached. The previous
two years we participated in the parade and not done a vendor booth. So, the parade is 11:15 to 12. Participating in the parade is free. The parade route um was through downtown.
The I didn't go last year, but the year before we just brought like stickers and things to throw and had the banner that we carried. I think the parade for sure is I mean I think the parade is worthwhile. I didn't attend last year, but the year before I was able to go.
Um, you know, it's free. I think we've always been able to have at least a few people walk in it. Um, we've been able to pair in the past with some another new group and I don't know if that's a possibility again, which has
been kind of nice because then we, you know, it's bigger numbers. Um, but you can talk to one I think is who you used to partner with. Yeah. Couple years. Um, I've never been able to go cuz I've always been out of town, but I would talk to them. Yeah. So, I mean, I
I think the parade definitely would be worthwhile. I don't know what everyone else thinks about, you know, the exhibitor. I know the year I went to the parade, we got a lot of really good feedback from other participants and people at the parade that they were happy to see our group participating. I
think the vendor thing is harder to staff and harder to have to get prepared for, but I I agree. I like at least participating in the parade. We've gotten I said really good feedback and it was nice to partner with one new wall last year the last couple years too because you just have a bigger group. Yeah, I would say not the exhibitor
booth because we've got the Brown County Fair which is a lot we just we have a lot of commitments already. Absolutely. I agree. Other discussion. Would there be a motion? I move that we participate in the
Pridefest parade on September 6 and Mano, but um not have an extor. Second. Any other discussion? All approved say I. I oppose the same sign. That motion passes. We can let Lisa not
submit that registration. All right. Education committee report. Um, first item is the community surveys discuss printing and distribution of surveys. We did not discuss that. How does that fall under the education?
I'm not group. I feel like it landed there because we were talking about maybe using it to drive some of the Yeah. the like activities. We can we can move it to I mean we can discuss it as a group too. Yeah. It doesn't necessarily
have to be the education committee. So after last month's meeting I I looked at the survey again to see if we had results and we do. We have 18 responses. That's really actually good. So um apologize that I didn't didn't look there earlier because we I didn't think
we would have that many. So, um, I think it's probably something we need to look at as a subcommittee of what the responses were. I wonder I wonder if what we could do is since we have all these events coming up, if we could have the QR code for the
parade, the night out, and the free fair, and then do an evaluation of the results like in the fall, you know what I mean? just like some have it try and get more responses and then we could you know put it on the
agenda for September October whenever even we could even do it October we have it available tomorrow night too we could I think it's pretty easy yeah I think we should do that yep we could have it available tomorrow so we could have it at all our events and then maybe in October we could you
know discuss all of the results that's a good idea just do a lot information gathering over the summer since we do have so many events. You know, it's it's interesting when you look at the time stamps. There was basically two periods where we had a bunch of responses and it was last July when we first rolled it
out and then February 23rd or 13th and 14th. Is that when it went out in the paper? We It went out in the paper. So that must be why. So I mean that's when we got 14 of the responses. Yeah, I bet that's why. So, so yeah, so we could just kind
of gather information. Yeah. And I think that was the intention is kind of on a rolling basis because we want to get enough different people to to respond respond. Perfect. I have a copy of the QR code. That was going to be my question. Um, I
can print it when I can I can't come tomorrow, but I can send it to send it to you and then if you can print it, then we can have it and I can I'll maybe just also have Lisa send it out to everybody, too, cuz then other people can have it if they just need to grab it if they're at an event and whatever.
Yeah, perfect. Okay. Um, then living without limits, the education subcommittee met before this meeting. I don't know if you can talk about where we're at for next steps. Uh, sure. So,
we basically figured the structure would be uh one meeting per quarter essentially. Um, we had a list of people that we looked through and um, have a general idea of,
you know, what what topic we would like to discuss for each event and a couple of different people that we plan on reaching out to to check for their availability. Um, ideally mid July. Um, we would also
have to partner with NewAt to figure out um dates that they would be available for filming as well. Do you guys need that contact information? Probably. I'll send it to you. I have it. Okay. Yep. And what else? Well, I think what we need at this point is for other people on the
commission. So, I've already reached out to a couple people. I've gotten a couple panelists um who are interested, but there's I think we need the entire group to um leverage their network a little bit about for some of these issues. Um we also had questions about the human
library. If you could speak a little bit more to it, we were looking at it again and trying to decide does this fit. Maybe that's the fourth event is like a human library. Is it Yeah. So I reached out a bunch at a time. Sorry. Is it a bunch of people at a time like Yeah. Yeah. So I reached out to the librarian
um and he is willing to work with us on that. The human library prefers to work with libraries versus organizations so we could partner through them. Um and what they are requesting is to have 10 books. Um so 10 volunteers who would serve as books or who would tell their
story essentially and then once we get that then we apply for Leroy the librarian knows all the ins and outs but yeah that's what they're looking for. Do you do you does the organization requesting to put it on so in this case us would we be the ones who
find those panelists or they already have people who are we would find them very similar to this. Okay. So that doesn't really absolve us of the responsibility of finding the people. Okay. So I think that kind of that helps to know that.
Um, and looking at the list of the different ideas that they were they they suggested gave us a couple ideas of maybe some um under reppresented or you know groups that maybe we didn't think of before. So that was helpful. Um
I don't know if we're going to get 10 people. I know that was our problem too cuz one was working with them but we couldn't Yeah. And it wasn't even getting the 10. I think we had six. Um, so 10 was a little bit of a stretch, but then also every volunteer um who's
speaking like a book also has a volunteer with them um to kind of keep the flow of things going, but also to monitor the interaction and engagement and make sure that no one's getting, you know, combative or no one's standing on their soap box or whatever. So it it's
volunteer heavy and we didn't have the manpower. Yeah, I don't think we do either. Is that is that facilitated like a person that they provide? Not necessarily. Wondering like what what part they Oh, the H the HLO. You know what I mean? So, what they provide
is they provide training. So, once you register with them and they accept your application, then there is a training that the books go through to learn how to share their story without um having a position or without triggering people.
And then also how to take comments and questions without being triggered. Um, so that's what they provide. Okay, that makes sense. And then their name, I guess, cuz people kind of know what the human library is, human library organization is. So essentially you you
need 20 volunteers to get it going. Well, that's what they're when we first did it, I think we had four or five and they were fine with that. And then all of a sudden they were like, we want you to have 20 or we want you to have 10. And and it doesn't ne necessarily need to be one-on-one volunteer. Um it could
be like maybe one volunteer per two books probably. So maybe like 15 to 20 volunteers. Okay. Um so yeah, I don't know why all of a sudden they had this requirement. Mhm. Probably they wanted to make their training time worthwhile. Maybe I'm guessing I don't know how long
the training it's like a video that they that you they have like this whole website set up and then the book gets a login and then they log in and then they can watch the video. Yeah. So next step would be to help you guys find your first session. We well I think
I at least have the first if not the first two sessions but then after that but there's yeah we need need more reach from the rest of the commission. Okay. Um I can reach out to Lisa again. Um I
know my ask last time was that everybody submit so many ideas and I don't think you got a very they were mostly mine. Yeah. Yeah. I think I had I just had a couple on there. So, I mean, just if people could just really give it some thought and think on it, I'll have Lisa
send out another email to the entire commission of just like if we want to get this going, we need to have the commission to participate and help us come up with ideas and and not just names, but also reach out to those people and gauge their interest. Okay, I
think that's in order to move this any further forward, we need that. So, we're not committing, you know, you don't we don't know dates and all that. We we can work on that from there. We just need actual people who you guys who people know. Okay. The topics. Yeah. What are
the first two that you have? So, we were doing low vision. Okay. And then um developmental delays or do you need more resources for those two topics? I think I think for for low vision I at least have a couple people
as well as I ask those people for suggestions which would be the other thing I would do is ask if you know somebody like to speak on autism or something if we're getting I mean we were thinking and I think we talked about this last month it's kind of the whole perspective of like somebody living with it maybe a caregiver you
know depending on the age of the person or you know how and then maybe there's an expert in that area so a couple people that are living with it a couple people that are caring for people living with it just to get that whole perspective. So I mean it could be like three or four people on any given topic.
That way they can kind of work off each other and kind of Yeah. see their different Yeah. What is the what are the different perspectives especially if there's an age age range or whatever. Um so I think autism was one we felt would be great. Um okay. And so if you guys
have I think that would be a good one to start with. Well, why don't we do that for sure of like this is what we like to focus on and do people have contacts? Please reach out to them like and we'll just maybe start with that subject and then make that make sense. Okay. All right. I'll reach out to Lisa and then we'll put I'll put something together
with her to send out to the whole commission. And I would say developmental delays too if there's something like that. And I know that's pretty broad but it could it can be broad I guess. And then then we will come up with questions very similar to the human library like we'll it'll be
not free form it'll be kind of guided. Awesome. Thank you. It's a lot of work. Yeah. Thank you for that. All right. Any other questions on that? Other business promotional items? So we
got stickers in and per the last meeting we approved lip balm and magnets. Those have been ordered. They're not in yet. Um, and I believe they both went, one went through printware and one went through the place we ordered the limp bulb from last year. So, we should have them for the events coming up
questions, legislative update. Does anybody have anything specific? Just a lot to watch, I think, in general. Nothing has really been passed right at this point, but just I think a lot to watch, especially with the on the
federal level of how that's going to trickle down to the state and what it's going to affect in terms of healthcare access, the Save. Food. Yeah. The Save Act, food access to people, just all sorts of things. So, as that stuff's going through, we'll just keep an eye on
it. Um, city council OB, you already kind of talked about this. So, the only thing was the approval of the parking lot. Yeah, perfect. Um, and then the date of the next regular meeting will be Monday, July
28th. So, with that, I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. Do we have a second? Second. All right. All approved say I. I sign. This meeting is
adjourned. Thank you all. Thank you.