over to you. All right. Uh I will call the meeting to order on October 27th at 5:00 p.m. Um so who do we have present today?
I'll start. Kyle Box >> Chest Mosque >> Pabloon >> Richard An Alan Clark >> Heidi Almond via satellite >> and then uh
uh chair uh John and Jill are excused and uh Peggy is excused from tonight's meeting. So we have three four present, three absent. So, we do have a coral. Does anyone have any proposed additions
or deletions to the agenda? Okay. Um, did anyone get everyone get a chance to review the minutes from our last meeting? Move to approve. >> Okay. Second. >> I'll second. >> All in favor? >> I
>> I. >> All opposed. Motion carries. And human rights day December 10th. >> Yeah. So, I was uh a friend of mine sent me um
aside to read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It's by the United Nations. Um and all of the sudden there was a flag that popped up saying human rights day December 10th.
I don't think we have never observed or used that day to make ourselves do a little PR or educating or I know we've been talking about how do we get a
little more exposure >> so I don't know if this will instigate any desire to do either a press release or a resolution
by the mayor a proclamation by the mayor um before the council meeting um to do that. So, I just thought I better share the date with you all and see where it takes us.
>> I've never heard that there was a human rights date, >> right? >> I'm not familiar with it either. I didn't know have a day for everything else. So, it makes sense. >> It's interesting. I just opened up my calendar and I noticed that it's all
service club lunch day. We're like Rotary and Guanas and Lions the same >> location together. >> Is this a Wednesday? Is this same Wednesday? >> Oh, >> yeah. So, I don't know if there's an
opportunity to maybe have that recognized or >> anyone in here a member of any of those clubs without anywhere. Yeah. >> Yeah. They do an all service lunchon. I think there's actually Oh, we have two events. Yeah. There's an all service
lunchon which you're referring to. Yeah. >> You know what? Honors club has it today this year or >> uh I do not. No, I know we're doing a Kowanas um celebration here very soon, but I don't know if I've
gotten any information on the community or the service club lunchon yet >> because they rotate who like programs for that. Is that how that works? >> I think so. It's the choir from the high school. >> Yeah, they sing at it. >> There's no, you know,
Columbus is a chair. Yeah, >> but it if it's the same day, it fits sealed. >> Yeah, >> it would be tight. >> I don't think you need to do a whole lot with it or anything like that, but it could be part of that theme there.
>> Good opportunity for Human Rights Commission to piggy back off of the work of service clubs. >> I I think doing a proclamation makes sense. And maybe that can be read instead of doing something else. Just if the mayor
is attending, he can read it or a member of the committee that is attending can read it. >> It's something simple. Yeah. So >> I like >> I quick Googled while while this was
going on. Apparently, it started in 1950 when the United States uh United Nations started their general assembly. >> Oh, really? That's interesting. >> So, is that something we have to approve
as a group or we just >> forward with it? Be up to the mayor to make the proclamation. Wouldn't that be his discretion? >> Yeah, we could approach club leaders, I suppose, if that was something you guys wanted to do.
So, two steps. Um, we can help the mayor if he chooses to do the proclamation. We can help him with the language that for welcoming week I came up with. I use a regular form from welcoming America.
But for this one, I'm wondering if there are tools under the Commission of Human Rights by United Nations ready. I can just pick that up from there. >> Right. >> And the second piece will be
people to approach the service clubs to see if they're interested in giving us two minutes to read that. So, I don't know if that's a decision, a voting decision or just
to the commission. We can take if you want to give staff direction, we can absolutely work on that. If you want to take a vote on it, it's all the same. >> Let's vote to approve having a proclamation read at the at that event on December 10th. is asking the mayor
mayor to report afford that. Yeah, because ultimately it's right >> I'll second. Wow. All in favor? >> I I all opposed.
All right. Motion carries. Does anyone want to head up contacting the other departments, the other clubs, or do we need to wait till we get maybe need to check on that first? Huh? >> On the mayor.
>> Yeah. if he's >> because that would determine how we would approach the clubs if he's willing to do it. >> Absolutely. Oh, I can have the conversation with the mayor. Um
I think we can even introduce it at a council meeting on December 1st. It would be right at the council meeting and then at the event on the 10th. Yeah. And I'm more than happy to get in touch with the Kowanas president.
I'm there. So So is there much PR with that day for the clubs coming together? I mean, does the paper cover I'm just thinking like clubs
coming together, human rights day? Like >> could they put a bug in the paper's ear? The paper used to do things, but they don't they're pretty passive. Uh there might be one article in the
paper or something, but they used to always have a photograph of something, but >> it's know they share it on social media. The clubs would in the past. I know these kanas did >> or does. >> I feel like Rotary will do the same.
Mhm. >> And I think if we can work on a press release >> highlighting that date as well or the proclamation in general. >> Yeah, >> we can do that. >> I'm actually going to Rotary tomorrow.
So sure to >> this could be that's currently the president. So I'll let him know let him know to wait for word from the mayor. Okay. Sounds good. So, and for your information, this doesn't have to do
with any of the action just taken, but I will uh make sure that in the package for our notes today. Um the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is sent to you just for your information.
You have some good good language, good areas of declarations. >> What year is that from by the way? You know, I think it was uh re is that revised >> revised um 23.
>> How much was the revised? >> 23 on on 2023. But what was proclaimed in 1950 that the United Nations estab that as a proclamation of of the concept of human rights. It it was not a day but it
was a principle and it was one of the principles of the United Nations. >> It was in 1948 the United Nations General Assembly adopted and proclaimed the universal declaration of human rights on December 10th 1948.
Um, the general assembly in 1950 passed a resolution 40 423B formerly establishing December 10th as human rights day and inviting all countries and interested organizations to celebrate it.
>> Thank you Google. >> And just to add, it looks like their theme for 2025 is Holocaust remembrance for dignity of and human rights. So marking the 80 years of the end of World War II and the Holocaust. So that's that's the United Nations theme this
year for their human rights day. >> They might just post >> like did they try to find the theme but >> they didn't have it like I printed this like two three weeks ago already. Okay. >> In Winnipeg, there is a human rights
museum and it's, you know, it's a new building. It's been funded by an immigrant, uh, I think he's a Jewish immigrant, but I, you know, who was successful in Winnipeg, uh, many millions of dollars, a grand multi-story big building, very
high, you know, it had all kinds of, uh, issues. It really is a very knowled educational place. We took our grandkids up from Winnipeg a year ago and you know they were they were f they were they had issues human rights issues that
teenagers would get interested in >> which uh normally it's sort of a thing on you know not in the mainstream but I thought it was a very uh it's part of education that young people
need to be exposed to and it had issues all over the world. The one issue that was not mentioned was the Palestinian issue. I think that was the funding, but everything else, you know, it really did
>> brought up and made uh these issues really. >> But it human rights is a it's a it's a word of things, but in the United States, it's not a daily thing you see much about. And it's a
sort of formality >> and yet the they're real issues. >> I think you'll find it interesting. It's very simple uh language too. So for sure does anyone else have anything?
So when do we next is it January question. Yeah, we'll have to send out I don't know if we have anything scheduled for 2026. So I think >> would it be the 19th of January?
>> MLK day and a Monday be the 4th, right? Is it 4th? Tuesday. >> Oops. >> Monday. Tuesday. Tuesday. >> Yeah. 27th. >> 27th. >> 26th of January. or 27th. Yep.
>> January 27th, 5:00 p.m. this location. That seems to work. Okay. January 27th at five. >> Yep. >> Then I think after that we have to go March, right? >> Yep. Then we'll have our annual meeting. >> Annual meeting March. Yep. >> So while you have your calendars or
writing notes, MLK dinner again will happen at Richwater College 5:30, I believe. 5:30 to 7. >> What was that? >> Uh Martin Luther King dinner.
>> What date was that? >> That's the uh 19th Monday >> of November or what? >> Uh January. >> Oh, January. Sorry. Okay. Sorry. 5:30. Do you want us to set meetings for the
year for 26 or do you want us to wait and do that on our first meeting in January? We can Should we wait? >> We can just get the calendar laid out for January and then have >> a few more here and >> add it to the as an agenda item. >> Yeah.
>> Set dates including annual meeting. >> Sounds good. >> Yeah. Kind of makesense. >> Make sure we have the chair on the bike. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Well, in March, right, can get a little tricky with spring break
>> school, so we might Yeah. Look at that and sure we're good. Any other orders of business? Get a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. All in favor? I. All
>> oppose. >> Motion carries. >> Great job, Alan. >> Thanks. >> See you guys later. things.