How do we give us a hug All right, good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the September 4th, 2025 Human Relations Committee.

Call this meeting to order.

Please be advised for those in attendance in person.

Agenda copies are at the front table.

I will now ask the principal management analyst to take attendance by roll call.

Thank you, Chair.

Committee member Lester.

Here.

Committee member McDonald.

Committee member Sylvester.

Here.

Committee member Webb.

Here.

Vice Chair Chadwell here.

And Chair Blake Bone.

Here.

Thank you.

And three minutes approval.

The minutes of the July 17, 2025 special meeting have been delivered to committee members and posted on the city hall bulletin board.

If there are no corrections or additions, a motion is in order to approve these minutes.

So moved.

Second.

All right.

All of them in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All right.

Motion carries.

All right.

Moving to item four, oral communications.

This portion of the meeting is reserved for persons wishing to address the committee on any matter not on the agenda.

Each speaker has up to three minutes to make their comments.

State law prohibits the committee from acting online agenda items.

For those attending meeting the meeting via Zoom, please use the raise your hand function or press star nine on your phone to make a comment on any item not on the agenda.

The committee will receive in-person comments first, seeing none, no online.

Perfect.

We will move forward to item five, unfinished business.

After we've been working on updating the spreadsheet with times and dates of the organizations that we're targeting with our questions, um, gauging uh folks' existing levels of specific participation and how perhaps the city can improve its outreach.

We were able to uh share some of the um discussions that we had had with community members so far.

Um and then I I believe some of us still have to go in and update that spreadsheet to make sure that we're we all know where we're at, and then um we are going to give it another month because uh some of us wanted to do some follow-up and also had additional groups schedule that they were gonna talk to.

Um so hopefully in the next month we'll have a lot of good answers to share.

Um, yeah, is there anything that I'm missing?

That was awesome.

No, that's great.

Actually, any uh questions from the committee.

All right.

Seeing none, I now open it to the uh floor for public comment.

Uh, seeing that there's no one in attendance and there's no one on Zoom.

Uh, we'll continue moving forward with item six.

New business adoption of the human relations committee bylaws.

The committee will now receive a presentation on this item from principal management analyst James.

Action will be taken on this item.

Thank you, Chair, and thank you, committee members.

This is a brief oral on the bylaws adoption item.

Um, as noted in the cover memo for the draft bylaws, the establishing resolution from for the HRC that was re-approved by council in May of 2025, uh, required that the HRC adopt bylaws to uh reflect meeting times, the role of chair and vice chair, etc.

Um, the bylaws that were included in your packet and are presented to you for approval tonight, reflect the requirements of the resolution, uh, as well as incorporating existing council policies that address things like membership appointment terms and resignations, compensation, um, and attendance.

Additionally, there are sections that touch on the overall purpose of the bylaws, which is drawn in the HRC, which is drawn from that establishing resolution, um, on the officers that reflects current practice of the HRC.

Uh, article five talks about meetings again, reflecting the current practice of the HRC and formally establishing that the first Thursday of the month at 6 30 shall be the HRC's meeting time, um, as well as incorporating some requirements of the round act.

Article 7 addresses ad hoc committees, um, which again are the current practice of the HRC.