Item B: Joint Meeting with Human Rights Commission

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Human Rights Commission FY10/11 Work Plan community forum, conduct an examination of the current stakeholder/partner community group liaison roles and reporting process, and create a response process and principles for responding to emerging issues such as hate crimes, discrimination, and inequity. The Accessibility Committee will focus primarily on issues around responsibilities and efforts to identify and assign the City’s ADA and Accessibility coordination including: pavement preservation and accessibility; proposing changes to the dangerous dog ordinance and issues around taxi accessibility; provide input into phase seven of the City’s ADA transition plan; support the City’s Bike and Pedestrian Plan; act as advisory body on curb cuts, accessible signals, and intersections; expand the availability of listening devices; make City documents available in many forms; and advise the commission and City organization on potential City and community accessibility issues. The Advocacy Response Team Committee will focus primarily on a review and redesign of the Human Rights Support System; work with Citizen Review Board (CRB) and other City complaint processes to clarify roles and needs; explore conflict resolution service models; the recruitment and training of Advocate Response Team volunteers; and track and report human rights complaint trends in the city. The full commission will meet a total of eleven times in a fiscal year, which will include work sessions. Work sessions are scheduled periodically to provide opportunities for information-sharing and discussion of human rights issues that do not necessarily require commission action. Dialogue on issues the commission maintains a continuing interest in will be included every year. The commission identified the following work sessions as those of high priority, and also reserves meeting time to address emerging issues. The following work sessions are planned for FY10/11: ?Joint meeting with meeting with Sustainability Commission ?Joint meeting with Police Commission ?Forum with Mayor and City Council ?Forum with City executive team ?Three commissioner trainings ?Community Forum ?Human Rights Summit ?Support the Police Commission’s work on developing a possible Hate Crimes Conference ?Work sessions on annual reports and assessments Procedural Objectives The Commission experienced a significant transition of its membership and staff last year. The group welcomed six new members and elected a new chair and vice-chair. Some specific procedural objectives for FY10 are to: ???Support the leadership team with an appropriate level of responsibilities ???Maintain a highly qualified, dedicated and balanced membership ?Identify opportunities for team building, to establish positive working relationships and facilitate group cohesiveness (annual process retreat) ?Continue outreach, information sharing, and collaboration with the community and other commissions and boards February 28, 2009 draft - 5 -