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Minutes of regular meeting February 26, 2015
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DRAFT
Social Service Human Relations Board
Minutes of the Regular Meeting, February 26, 2015
1. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL
President Biggs called the meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. Present were Vice President Villareal, and members Williams, Hyman, Radding, Blake, and Sorensen.
1-A. SEASON FOR NONVIOLENCE DAILY READING
President Biggs shared that A Season for Nonviolence (SNV) began in 1998, as a grassroots campaign inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He read the daily reading based on the principle of listening and added that this reading was also presented this morning in our schools.
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes of the special meeting of January 29, were approved as presented.
M/S Hyman / Williams Unanimous
3. AGENDA ITEMS
3.-A JOINT DISCUSSION AND WORK SESSION WITH THE BOARD AND ITS WORKGROUPS
President Biggs requested that this item be placed on the agenda for the Board to discuss current projects and activities, suggest other projects to take on in the future, and consider adopting a calendar of projects and activities through FY 15/16.
President Biggs began by responding to a question regarding an evaluation sheet to be used when scoring the FY 15/16 CDBG RFPs. Last year's evaluation sheet had inadvertently been included with the online RFPs, and President Biggs asked members to use the one that had been emailed to them.
The discussion of future projects began by identifying those projects the Board had recently undertaken, such as the Community Service Awards, Homeless Count, and co-sponsoring the screening of Facing Fear. It was also noted that the board conducts a periodic Community Needs Survey, with the last one being released in early 2012.
Member Williams commented that the board's activities throughout the year have no apparent cohesiveness, and that it w...
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