Arlington Human Rights Commission Agenda Date: January 23, 2019 Time: 8:00-10:00 p.m. Location: Jefferson Cutter House, 611 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02474 Attendees: Commissioners K. Fontanez, D. Swanson, N. Greenfield, S. Baron, G. Horowitz, C. Huvos, S. Grossman, K. Bauer, S. Grossman, B. Carlton-Gysan Guest: Michaiah Healy, Chair of the Diversity Taskforce Minutes Meeting called to order at 8:05 pm by Co-Chair Swanson. 1. Check-in / Meeting Roles (8:00PM-8:05PM | 5mins.) a. Note taker/Time-Keeper/Next-Stepper 2. Minutes Approval (8:05PM-8:10PM | 5mins.) a. November Minutes i. Commissioner Bauer voted to approve, and Commissioner Horowitz seconded. Commissioners Minton, Grossman and Huvos abstained. b. December Minutes i. Commissioner Bauer voted to approve with edits, and Commissioner Horowitz seconded. Commissioners Minton, Fontanez and Carlton-Gysan abstained. 3. Commissioner Update (8:10PM-8:20PM | 10mins.) a. Commissioner updates--What is your most pressing challenge for the Commission for 2019? b. Note from Commissioner Maxwell that she will be stepping down. Co-chairs Swanson and Greenfield will work with Arlington HHS Director Christine Bongiorno to publicly post the vacancy. 4. Citizens Open Forum (8:20PM-8:35PM | 15mins.) 5. Elections (8:35PM-8:45PM | 10mins.) a. Co-Chairs -- Commissioner Horowitz moved to nominate Co-chairs Greenfield and Swanson as co-chairs; Commissioner Baron seconded. All voted in favor. b. Secretary -- No interest. Co-chair Greenfield moved to postpone the vote until the next meeting; Co-chair Swanson seconded. All voted in favor. c. Treasurer – Co-chair Greenfield nominated Commissioner Fontanez, Commissioner Carlton- Gysan seconded. All voted in favor. 6. Community events and info (8:45PM-9:10PM | 25mins.) a. MLK Day Involvement in future i. Commission discussed developing a Day of Service for next year during the day to complement the traditional evening MLK Day celebration. Ideas included storytellers, fleece blankets, food pantry volunteering or a Children’s March. b. Funding Requests i. Menotomy Day at Stratton 1. Commission discussed this funding request and had several questions and needed more information 2. Commissioner Baron moved to table this request until the next meeting; Commissioner Carlton-Gysan seconded. All voted in favor. ii. Commission discussed sponsoring a second night of Courageous Conversations About Race. 1. Commissioner Baron moved to set to aside $300 for Courageous Conversations About Race event; Commissioner Carlton-Gysan seconded. All voted in favor. iii. True Story Event at Stratton 1. Commissioner Grossman moved to provide $300 to this event; Commissioner Baron seconded. All voted in favor, except Commissioners Carlton-Gysan and Bauer abstained. iv. Double Take Workshop/Coaching 1. Commission discussed how this was progressing. v. Facing History Training or Identity Workshop 1. Commission discussed the possibility of doing this in the future. vi. AHS Inclusion Day – April 10 1. AHS requested that AHRC provide facilitators to host 2 one-hour sessions. 2. Co-chair Greenfield and Commissioner Bauer plan to attend. c. Town Meeting Work i. Indigenous Peoples Day Warrant Article ii. Commissioner Baron explained the process to introduce and a Warrant to Town Meeting to change Columbus Day to Indigenous People’s Day. iii. Commissioner Carlton-Gysan moved to submit Indigenous People’s Day language for Warrant to Select Board as written; Commissioner Baron seconded. All voted in favor. iv. Commissioners Baron and Carlton-Gysan will work on presentation for the Select Board. v. Overnight Parking Warrant Article 1. Commission discussed the content of the Warrant Article. vi. Green Card Voting Warrant Article 1. Commission discussed the content of the Warrant Article. 7. 2019 Retreat (9:10PM-9:25PM | 15mins) a. Volunteers b. True Story Theatre? c. Arlington Responds to Hate Guide i. Co-chair Greenfield provided a brief update. This guide will be worked on by the AHRC at their future retreat. 8. Sub-Committee Report Out (9:25PM-9:40PM | 15mins.) a. Communications i. Website 1. Commissioner Carlton-Gysan gave an update on the new website. ii. Newsletter 1. No updates. iii. Logo 1. Co-chair Swanson shared packets of potential logos. 2. Co-chair Greenfield will create Google forms for AHRC to review and vote on logos. iv. Calendar Invites 1. Co-chair Greenfield will try to figure out why the invites are acting erratically. b. Double Take i. Reminder that the event is coming up and for AHRC to continue outreach efforts. c. School Liaisons i. Commissioner Grossman provided a brief update. 9. Correspondence/Incidents/Complaints (9:40PM-9:50PM | 10mins.) a. Stratton Swastika i. Co-chairs Greenfield and Swanson explained the incident. b. Ottoson Racist and Homophobic Whiteboard graffiti i. Co-chair Greenfield explained the incident and said that Ottoson, AHRC and ADL New England would be meeting to discuss incident follow-up. c. Pedrini Follow Up i. Co-chair Swanson plans to set up a meeting with Interim Police Chief Flaherty. 10. Next steps (9:50PM-10:00PM | 10mins.) a. February Meeting i. AG Hate Crimes Hotline ii. Reach out to Arlington International Film Festival iii. Community Reads book Commissioner Fontanez moved to adjourn; Commissioner Horowitz seconded. All in favor in favor. Respectfully submitted by Commissioner Carlton-Gysan.