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Agenda Human Rights and Relations Commission City Of Edina, Minnesota Edina City Hall Community Room 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 Tuesday, February 28, 2017 7:00 PM I.Call To Order II.Roll Call III.Approval Of Meeting Agenda IV.Approval Of Meeting Minutes A.Minutes: HRRC January 2017 Minutes V.Special Recognitions And Presentations A.Ian Nemerov, Planning Commissioner VI.Community Comment During "Community Comment," the Board/Commission will invite residents to share relevant issues or concerns. Individuals must limit their comments to three minutes. The Chair may limit the number of speakers on the same issue in the interest of time and topic. Generally speaking, items that are elsewhere on tonight's agenda may not be addressed during Community Comment. Individuals should not expect the Chair or Board/Commission Members to respond to their comments tonight. Instead, the Board/Commission might refer the matter to sta% for consideration at a future meeting. VII.Reports/Recommendations A.Annual Elections B.2017 Work Plan Updates C.2017 Tom Oye Award Recipient Selection D.Days of Remembrance Working Group E.Advisory Communication: Edina High School VIII.Correspondence And Petitions A.Where is Anne Frank, MinnPost B.Correspondence 2.16.17 IX.Chair And Member Comments X.Sta6 Comments A.Invoice: League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions B.Important Dates XI.Adjournment The City of Edina wants all residents to be comfortable being part of the public process. If you need assistance in the way of hearing ampli9cation, an interpreter, large-print documents or something else, please call 952-927-8861 72 hours in advance of the meeting. Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: IV.A. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Report and Recommendation From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:Minutes: HRRC January 2017 Minutes Action CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: Approve the Human Rights and Relations meeting minutes from the January 24, 2017 meeting. INTRODUCTION: None. ATTACHMENTS: Description January 24th, 2017 HRRC meeting minutes Draft Minutes☒ Approved Minutes☐ Approved Date: ' Minutes City Of Edina, Minnesota Human Rights and Relations Commission Edina City Hall, Council Chambers January 24, 2017 7:00pm I. Call To Order Chair Arseneault called the January 24 Human Rights and Relations Commission meeting to order at 7:03pm. II. Roll Call Answering roll call were Chair Arseneault, Commissioners Beringer, Edelson, Edwards, Kennedy, Martin, and Nelson. Student Commissioners Chao and Sinha. Staff present: HRRC Staff Liaison MJ Lamon and City Management Fellow Kelly Dumais. Absent Members: Commissioner Vecchio-Smith. Commissioner Meek arrived at 7:08pm. III. Approval Of Meeting Agenda Motion by Kennedy to approve the Human Rights and Relations January 24, 2017, meeting agenda with the addition of 6B Working Group Proposal: Days of Remembrance under reports and recommendations. Motion seconded by Beringer. Motion carried. IV. Approval Of Meeting Minutes Motion by Kennedy to approve the December 8, 2016, meeting minutes. Motion seconded by Edelson. Motion carried. V. Community Comment VI. Reports and Recommendations A. 2017 Workplan Updates i. Tom Oye Award - Commissioner Martin reported that at this time we have no nominations for the Tom Oye award. The nominations closed on January 13, 2017, and Martin proposed that we extend the nominations deadline. - Commissioners discussed the rules the HRRC adopted before last year’s Tom Oye Award cycle regarding nominations. Chair Arseneault clarified that the commission had decided that previous members of the HRRC could be nominated and current members of the HRRC could nominate others for the award with the expectation that commissioners who nominate someone for the award will abstain from the vote on their nominee. Motion by Edelson to move the deadline for nominations for the Tom Oye award from January13, 2017 to February 21, 2017. Motion seconded by Meek. Motion carried. Draft Minutes☒ Approved Minutes☐ Approved Date: ii. Human Rights Essay Contest - Chair Arseneault clarified that the Essay Contest proposal should be brought to the entire committee for discussion and approval before it is publicized; because the committee has not yet had an opportunity to meet, we needed to push the deadline back. - Student Commissioner Sinha commented that when he was reviewing the proposed poster for the initiative, he felt as though it was only open to women as it required a personal testimony on the topic of women’s discrimination. - Commissioner Kennedy clarified that the intent of focusing on women’s rights was to highlight public health concerns around violence and discrimination directed at women and women’s bodies that ultimately has a destructive impact on everyone. - The Commission discussed the possibility of having two questions from which participants could choose one as their topic. The Commission also discussed an appropriate date to announce the winner. The commission agreed to tie the date to the anniversary of the day the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations (December 10). - The committee will work out the details around essay topic(s) and timelines for the contest and bring it back to the Commission. iii. Race and Equity - Liaison Lamon advised that the specific responsibilities of the HRRC have still not been defined for the Race and Equity Taskforce. The City is collecting applications for the Taskforce and participants will be appointed by the City Council on February 7th. Three HRRC members are participating in the City’s Government and Racial Equity (GARE) initiative - Chair Arseneault and Commissioners Edelson and Meek. - Liaison Lamon announced there will be training for Board and Commission members regarding the city’s comprehensive plan; the training is about an hour and will be videotaped for anyone who is unable to attend. B. Working Group Proposal: Days of Remembrance (DOR) - The DOR committee requests to publish this year’s project as a working group because this event has been generating a lot of public interest in the last several years. We can benefit from the energy of the community in this event as well as provide more opportunities for broader community participation. Motion by Edelson to make the Days of Remembrance Event a working group. Motion seconded by Martin. Motion carried. C. Edina High School Letter - Commissioners Kennedy and Meek discussed that they had volunteered to write a draft letter to the EHS to bring back to the Commission to address concerns expressed at the December 8, 2016, HRRC meeting. - Commissioners discussed the issue of the HRRC authoring a letter to the school as outside of our charge, as we are an advisory body to Council; this is not a part of our workplan. Draft Minutes☒ Approved Minutes☐ Approved Date: - It was noted that several commissioners had raised the point in our December meeting that the reported behavior should not go unnoticed and that there is a larger context. The commission discussed that we could instead write an advisory communication to the City Council to recommend that Council engage with the high school about the school’s response. - Commissioners Kennedy and Meek will draft an advisory communication to City Council and bring it to the February HRRC meeting for review. VII. Chair and Member Comments - Commissioner Martin reported that Edina Schools are having a community conversations event series that is relevant to the work that we focus on. - Commissioner Kennedy advised that her organization is partnering with the Edina League of Women Voters and the new Edina citizens’ human rights committee to sponsor the showing of a video on February 21 of a town in Maine with an influx of Somali immigrants. - Chair Arseneault announced that the JCRC is hosting an event featuring Father Patrick Desbois at Beth El Synagogue; Desbois is a priest who has devoted his life to researching the Holocaust and fighting anti-Semitism. - Arseneault also advised that the Boards and Commissions annual Recognition Dinner is April 25, 2017, which is an HRRC meeting. Motion by Kennedy to Cancel the April 25 meeting of the HRRC. Motion seconded by Nelson. Motion carried. VIII. Staff Comments - Liaison Lamon reported that the City Council is considering changing Board and Commission Chair term limits and is seeking feedback. Commissioners discussed that more years would be beneficial to allow the chair to continue after gaining experience, however, the terms should not be unlimited in years. Commissioners expressed concern about the burnout factor if terms are increased, and discussed structural models that could create pathways for chairs to be able to come in with some experience such as having a Vice Chair take on more responsibility or be next in line for Chair, or having co-chairs. IX. Adjournment Motion by Kennedy to adjourn the January 24, 2017, HRRC meeting at 8:20PM. Motion seconded by Nelson. Motion carried. Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: V.A. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Other From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:Ian Nemerov, Planning Commissioner Information CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: None. INTRODUCTION: Ian Nemerov has volunteered to serve as the Human Rights and Relations liaison to the Comprehensive Plan Task Force (Planning Commission). ATTACHMENTS: Description Comp Plan Resonsibilities Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VII.A. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Report and Recommendation From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:Annual Elections Action CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: HRRC to approve the selection of the 2017 Chair and Vice Chair starting their term at the March meeting. INTRODUCTION: Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VII.B. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Report and Recommendation From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:2017 Work Plan Updates Information CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: None. INTRODUCTION: 1) Essay Contest (Kennedy/Edelson/Sinha/Edwards/Chao) 2) Race and Equity/GARE Update (Arseneault/Meek/Edelson) ATTACHMENTS: Description 2017 Approved Work Plan Approved by Council 12/6/16 Board/Commission: Human Rights and Relations Commission 2017 Annual Work Plan Initiative 1 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☐ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☒ Ongoing Responsibility April 2017 $75 for plaque + possible cost for new printed materials • Register attendance at event • Track nominations • Update website Tom Oye Award • In 2017 the committee will develop an annual theme. Progress Report: Initiative 2 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☒ 3 ☐ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☐ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☒ Ongoing Responsibility August 2017 None. • Coordinate Meetings • Maintain record of meetings about incidents Bias Offense Response Plan – review and update, if needed, annually Progress Report: Initiative 3 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☐ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☒ Ongoing Responsibility April 2017 $300 for marketing materials and refreshments Day of Remembrance Event Progress Report: Initiative 4 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☒ 3 ☐ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☒ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility December 2017 $1000 fee for workshop facilitators • Event coordination • Communications • Marketing Serve as lead Commission for City’s new racial equity initiative as assigned by City Council and the task force. [Initiative attributes to Human Rights City Designation] Progress Report: Approved by Council 12/6/16 Initiative 5 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☐ New Initiative ☒ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility October 2017 $300 for marketing materials and refreshments, depending on event) • Event coordination • Communications • Marketing Sharing Values, Sharing Communities Progress Report: Initiative 6 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☒ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☒ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility May 2017 $200 for marketing $100 for award Communications Marketing Manage essays Human Rights Essay Contest • Develop an annual theme • Develop age categories Progress Report: Initiative 7 Council Charge ☐ 1 ☒ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 Target Completion Date Budget Required (Staff Liaison) Staff Support Required (Staff Liaison) ☒ New Initiative ☐ Continued Initiative ☐ Ongoing Responsibility December 2017 Assist as requested with development of the City’s new Comprehensive Guide Plan. [Initiative attributes to Human Rights City Designation] Progress Report: Parking Lot: (These items have been considered by the BC, but not proposed as part of this year’s work plan. If the BC decides they would like to work on them in the current year, it would need to be approved by Council.) Transgender Rights – Educational presentation or other efforts to ensure welcome and safe environment for all within the city Recognition for Community Members whose work addresses issues of racism (e.g., an MLK Award) Proposed Month for Joint Work Session (one time per year, up to 60 minutes): June Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VII.C. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Report and Recommendation From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:2017 Tom Oye Award Recipient Selection Action CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: Approve a recipient to receive the 2017 Tom Oye Award. INTRODUCTION: The HRRC solicited Tom Oye nominations starting in December and ending February 23rd. In that time, two nominations were received. 1) Sam Parmekar 2) Saumya Mangalick The HRRC should discuss who should receive the 2017 Tom Oye Award. ATTACHMENTS: Description 2017 Nominations and Supporting Docs 1 MJ Lamon From:kcaron@edinamn.gov Sent:Wednesday, February 22, 2017 12:23 AM To:MJ Lamon Subject:2017 Tom Oye Human Rights Award Nomination form submission Attachments:TomOyeNominationofSaumyaMangalick.pdf; JeevanJyotiLetter.pdf Hi, A 2017 Tom Oye Human Rights Award Nomination form has been submitted on 02/22/2017 via: edinamn.gov/index.php?section=tomoye_form Relationship to nominee. Brother Name Yash Mangalick Occupation Student Work or Home Address in Edina 6617 Pawnee Road Email yashhanumanji@gmail.com Telephone 612-310-8891 Name of Person or Group being Nominated Saumya Mangalick Nominee's Email saumyamangalick@gmail.com Nominee's Telephone 612-387-6039 Comments Regarding Nominee Saumya Mangalick, a high school junior, discovered the unique challenges that visually impaired girls face through research for a school project. From there, she was inspired to take action to help. She partnered with Jeevan Jyoti Institute for the Disabled in Varanasi, India, single-handedly raising a thousand dollars providing supplies for 200 poor blind girls studying there, and working there herself to learn more about education for kids with disabilities in impoverished communities. She then founded the Edina chapter of the UN Foundation's Girl Up Campaign, planning service, education, volunteering, and advocacy events around Edina to further women's rights worldwide. She is currently working with the UN Foundat! ion to expand Girl Up's mission to bring more aid to girls in developing nations with disabilities. Upload Essay TomOyeNominationofSaumyaMangalick.pdf Upload Supporting Materials JeevanJyotiLetter.pdf Tom Oye Nomination Essay by Yash Mangalick Nominee: Saumya Mangalick It is with great love and pride that I nominate my sister, Saumya Mangalick, for the 2017 Tom Oye Human Rights Award. She is only a junior in high school, but she has already had a lasting impact on hundreds of lives and continues to make new ones every day. She first learned about the cycle between disability and poverty in 2015. She soon became driven to help break the cycle in whatever ways she could. She first began volunteering at Living Well Disability Services, and then became a radio broadcaster for the Minnesota State Services for the Blind. As she became involved in the blind community, she grew more and more aware of the unique challenges people with visual impairments, especially girls, face. She partnered with the Jeevan Jyoti Institute for the Disabled in India, learning that in many poorer parts of the world, parents would give what little food they had to their sons instead of their daughters, causing many girls to lose their eyesight due to malnutrition. She soon became an advocate for the rights of girls and the visually impaired. Saumya organized fundraisers, single-handedly raising a thousand dollars which provided more than 200 blind girls in India with essential supplies. She also spent some of her summer working with the blind students of Jeevan Jyoti, learning about education for the blind and the work needed to make it more accessible to impoverished communities all over the world. Saumya has always been a leader. She recently founded and serves as president of Girl Up Edina, a local chapter of the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign. In one week Saumya had garnered the attention of more than 200 people from around the US. She is currently planning fundraisers to contribute to the UN Foundation, who will send the money directly to NGOs to further the development of women’s rights globally. She is also organizing a large community event at Edina High School for International Women’s Day with guest speakers to raise awareness about the gender gap. In addition, she is leading several group volunteer days at local women’s shelters and actively contacting our legislative representatives to support a bill ensuring education for all refugee girls. She is also currently in contact with the National leaders of the Girl Up Campaign, trying to convince them to add a focus on girls with disabilities, as she feels their fight for equal rights needs to be addressed. Although young, my sister is incredibly hardworking and positive. She is extremely globally and culturally aware and wants nothing more than to make the world more just and equal for everyone. Saumya has already achieved more than most would expect of a high school student, and I cannot wait to see what she goes on to accomplish with the rest of her life. I hope you seriously consider her as a candidate for the Tom Oye Award. I know hundreds would agree with me when I say she deserves it. Supplementary Material for Yash Mangalick’s Tom Oye nomination of Saumya Mangalick Jeevan Jyoti Institute for the Disabled Aktha, Sarnath, Varanasi 221007, U.P. India jjinstitute75@gmail.com September 5, 2016 To whom it may concern: My name is Sister Sweta D’Britto and I am the director of the Jeevan Jyoti Special School for visually impaired girls. This is to certify that Saumya Mangalick volunteered for me at the Jeevan Jyoti Institute for the Disabled. She spent over 126 hours from August 10th to 25th 2016 here in the school helping blind girls, teaching classes and taking care of them. She organized her own fundraiser and donated Rs. 40,000, which we used to provide over 200 girls with items they don’t usually have, such as soaps, shampoo, and other toiletries. During her time here, Saumya taught English, Hindi, Math, Politics, and History classes to visually impaired students from kindergarten to 12th grade. In addition to this, she helped in music and dance classes, and taught speech writing and oration skills to the girls as well. She played an important role in organizing entertainment programs for other guests. I am very impressed by her extremely hard work, sincerity and compassion, she became very close to the Jeevan Jyoti community in the short time. She would stay late and help out and spent time with them in their hostels as well. Saumya is an intelligent, hard working and sensitive girl. She is well versed in indian dance and music and loved sharing that with her Jeevan Jyoti friends. Saumya’s caring and fun spirit made it easy for the students to bond with her, and she quickly became a part of the Jeevan Jyoti family. We were impressed to see such a hardworking individual so passionate about helping in every way she could. She overcame any challenges she faced and truly strived to make a difference in the lives of these visually impaired girls. Please don't hesitate to contact me if I can be of any further assistance. Sincerely, Sister Sweta D’Britto 1 MJ Lamon From:kcaron@edinamn.gov Sent:Wednesday, February 22, 2017 9:59 AM To:MJ Lamon Subject:2017 Tom Oye Human Rights Award Nomination form submission Attachments:Sam.tom oye.2017.docx Hi, A 2017 Tom Oye Human Rights Award Nomination form has been submitted on 02/22/2017 via: edinamn.gov/index.php?section=tomoye_form Name Heather Edelson Occupation NA Work or Home Address in Edina NA Email hmedelson@gmail.com Telephone 952-826-0360 Name of Person or Group being Nominated Sam Parmekar Nominee's Email hmedelson@gmail.com Nominee's Telephone 952-826-0360 Upload Essay Sam.tom oye.2017.docx -Edina Team. I would to nominate Sam Parmekar, a local Edina High School Student for his excellence in advocacy in the Edina Community. It was one year ago that I met Sam and since then I have noticed that he is a strong voice at difficult times within our community. There’s a quote that rings true by the brave young advocate Malala “There’s a moment when you have to chose whether to be silent or to stand up.” It is clear since meeting Sam he believes in speaking up for what believes to be right. He attends school board and city council meeting and has spoken up on various areas such as racial equity – and social and environmental justice. Sam worked as one of leading students to engage Edina Schools in assuring hate crimes were not tolerated as well as improving post election relations/climate at the high school. Sam has also been a strong advocate for community members with special needs. Sam has an adored brother Ethan who has Down syndrome. For a service project Sam’s mother Lora said “He did his service project at Gigi’s Playhouse in 9th grade and continued volunteering with young athletes with Down syndrome after his commitment was up. Has done Polar Plunge to raise money for Special Olympics - it speaks volumes to Sam’s strong character.” Lorna (Sam’s Mom) said “from a young age he has been empathetic and courageous enough to stand up for his beliefs. When he was in 3rd grade I got a call from a parent of a 1st grader that rode the same bus. She described an incident where Sam stood up to the 5th graders that were picking on her son. In another bus incident, as a 5th grader, Sam sat in the front seat with a neighborhood kindergartner who was apprehensive about the first week of school. I know that these are little things, but definitely moments that I will always remember.” I am beyond honored to nominate Sam to receive this years 2017 Tom Oye Award. Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VII.D. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Report and Recommendation From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:Days of Remembrance Working Group Action CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: Approve members to serve on the 2017 Days of Remembrance working group. INTRODUCTION: At the January HRRC regular meeting, the HRRC approved the establishment of the Days of Remembrance working group. As outlined in bylaws, a public notice was sent out on February 2 and remained open for more than 14 days to allow interested candidates to step forward. Applicants were: 1) Jan Seidman 2) Elizabeth Ogren 3) Lina Lin 4) Neeti Singhal The committee will recommend the approval of working group members. Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VII.E. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Report and Recommendation From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:Advisory Communication: Edina High School Action CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: Approve the Human Rights and Relations advisory communication to be forwarded to City Council for consideration. INTRODUCTION: The HRRC student commissioners have brought attention to a recent social media incident that resulted in student body assemblies at the school. The HRRC would like to bring this to the attention of City Council for consideration ATTACHMENTS: Description Advisory Communication Feb. 2017 Advisory Communication Draft, February 12, 2017 Ellen Kennedy and Michelle Meek To members of the Edina City Council, Background: Over the past several months, there have been many incidents of xenophobia and anti- Semitism in schools, organizations, and neighborhoods throughout Minnesota. Immigrant and refugee youth in the schools are traumatized by bullying that targets their status. Edina High School had a particularly horrific example last fall of a student who disseminated hate messaging while wearing attire deliberately designed to look like that worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan. In response, Edina High School asked teachers to address the issue in classrooms; held an assembly; and created a ‘creed,’ or statement, of inclusion. We applaud these important steps. Situation: However, xenophobia is increasing, according to data reported by the FBI, the Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, all of which have documented very troubling spikes in these incidents. It is likely that xenophobia will become even worse because of the federal government’s continued advocacy to prohibit all Muslims from entering the United States. The rhetoric and efforts at action incite and support hate speech and hate crimes, particularly directed at Muslims but also spilling over against other minority groups. The recent discussion by the federal government to change the language of the program titled “Countering Violent Extremism” to focus exclusively on radical Islamic extremism, for example, provides additional license for anti-Muslim action, and this is particularly likely to occur in Minnesota, one of the main sites for the CVE nation-wide program. Recommendation: As a Human Rights City, the City of Edina has a responsibility and an opportunity to be proactive in efforts to prevent hate speech and discrimination. The recent inflammatory anti-Muslim tweets from Ken Lien, owner and chairman of the Minnesota Mr. Basketball Award, illustrate our recommendation: our city must not participate with programs that demonize or denigrate anyone based on race, religion, ethnicity, or national origin, and indeed, must publicly decry these actions. Furthermore, the line between free speech and hate speech is a difficult one, and we recommend that the City of Edina encourage the administration at Edina High School to conduct programs to raise awareness about incitement, hate speech, and hate crimes. Assessment: Our youth are the most important asset that we have. They are also the most vulnerable, both those who are targeted and those who are easily incited to hate by parents, by the media, and by those who are unwilling to accept the increasing plurality of our neighborhoods, our state, and our nation. Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VIII.A. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Correspondence From:Kelly Dumais, City Management Fellow Item Activity: Subject:Where is Anne Frank, MinnPost Information CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: INTRODUCTION: Op-Ed piece written by Commissioner Kennedy for MinnPost published February 16th, 2017 ATTACHMENTS: Description Where is Anne Frank MINNPOST Where is Anne Frank? By Ellen J. Kennedy | 08:00 am https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2017/02/where-anne-frank Wikimedia Commons Anne Frank in 1940 We all know the tragic story of young Anne Frank: more than two years living in hiding in an attic in Amsterdam without a breath of fresh air, a day at school, a trip to a library, or an afternoon at a park. And eventually, she and her family and friends in that tiny attic were betrayed to the Nazis, who deported them to concentration camps. Anne was sent to Auschwitz and then died in Bergen-Belsen, one of the 42,500 camps set up in Europe by the Nazis. She was 15 years old. She never finished high school, never married, never even finished her childhood. Her story is my nightmare today. Anne Frank was one of more than 1.5 million Jewish children who perished at the hands of people throughout Europe. They were poisoned with hate for all Jews, even for a 13-year-old girl. The Fascist leaders of Germany whipped ordinary citizens into a frenzy of xenophobia. Jews were blamed for Germany’s loss in World War I, for manipulating the world’s financial markets, for being part of a Communist plot to control the world. They were characterized as less-than-human brutes and savages who killed Jesus and were bent on raping Christian women and drinking the blood of Christian children. It’s easy to incite people to hate. And it’s very easy for that hate to consume people’s minds, energies, and lives and to make them the pawns of an autocrat. 400+ laws enacted to persecute the Jews The Fascist Nazi government in Germany passed more than 400 laws to enact the persecution of the Jews, from small steps that made it illegal for Jews to own radios, cameras, or even bicycles, illegal to walk on a sidewalk or sit on a park bench, to crippling laws stripping them of their businesses, their professions, the right to be treated in a hospital, the right to go to school, and their citizenship. They were required to register their identities and addresses so they could be rounded up for extermination. Most of the laws were passed not by Hitler’s inner circle, but by people in towns and villages across Germany — mayors, council members, and civic leaders — who encouraged and promoted anti- Semitism against neighbors in their own communities. They spread hate, posted signs, hung billboards, passed laws, and eventually, local citizens, officials, and police across Europe rounded up and transported Jews in their own towns to places like Auschwitz to be killed or to die of starvation, torture, or disease. People often say to me, “If I’d been alive and in Europe back then, I’d have stood up against the Nazis. I’d have helped save Anne Frank.” She is with us today Anne Frank is with us today. She is in the frightened spirit of the young Somali girls in Minnesota classrooms who are called terrorists by bigoted classmates for wearing hijabs. She is in the heart of the Somali women who were verbally abused in a restaurant in Edina. She is in the faces of people around the world who are trying to find lives free from fear and violence, only to be told they cannot board a U.S.-bound plane because they are Muslims. She is in the bodies of people like the Somali woman who was attacked in a Coon Rapids restaurant because she wasn’t speaking English. Anne Frank is right here. We are in a new and terrible era when all Muslims are targeted and every Muslim is suspected of being a terrorist. Yet terrorism by Muslims makes up one-third of 1 percent of the murders in the United States. Since 9/11, there have been 54 fatalities caused by Muslim-American extremists. In the same period, more than 240,000 Americans were murdered. And not by Muslims. This Islamophobia, spurred on by our government, gives hate-mongers a license to lash out with words and with deeds. This violates American laws as well as our deeply held American beliefs of equality, the separation of church and state, and freedom for us all. We are a nation of pluralism Ellen J. Kennedy We are not, by legal definition, a Christian country. We are not a white country. We are not a European- descendant-only country. We are a country founded on values of pluralism of religion, race, ethnicity, and national origin. I am a Jew. Trump’s recent action to focus exclusively on Muslims and to take hate and neo-Nazi groups off the terror watch list licenses anti-Semitism. Swastikas are appearing in many places, including at Maple Grove High School, at the University of St. Thomas, and at the University of Minnesota. Two men on a Florida college campus openly wore jackets emblazoned with swastikas. Jewish community organizations have received nearly 50 bomb threats since the start of the new year, including at the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis Park, where I belong. FBI data show that Jews in the U.S. are subjected to the most hate crimes of any religious group, despite constituting only 2 percent of the American population. There is a national climate of rising anti-Semitism. The end of Nazism was not the end of anti-Semitism. Anne Frank is here in hiding, in my Muslim friends, in me, in people in the LGBTQ community, in all of us who feel targeted by the Trump administration’s policies that are eerily akin to those begun in Germany in 1933, when Fascists took over that government. I have never been a fear-monger, but I am now afraid. What are you doing to help the Anne Franks of today? To see what you can do, click here. Ellen J. Kennedy, Ph.D., is the executive director of World Without Genocide at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, St. Paul. Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: VIII.B. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Correspondence From:Kelly Dumais, City Management Fellow Item Activity: Subject:Correspondence 2.16.17 Information CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: INTRODUCTION: Correspondence 2.16.17 ATTACHMENTS: Description Correspondence 2.16.17 Think Globally, Resist Locally How cities can counter the power of President Trump. BENJAMIN BARBER N THEIR PENULTIMATE PRE-ELECTION ISSUE, THE EDITORS OF THE New Yorker wrote confidently: "On November 8, barring some astonishment, the people of the United States will, after two hun- dred and forty years, send a woman to the 1" ,ite House." Yet two L. months later, Donald Trump is moving into the White House, while the American majority is left trembling in astonishment—an enervating astonishment that has, for the most part, generated only noisily ineffectual protest and self-lacerating despair. Yet we do have a constructive political alternative to astonishment: We have cities. The American political map is not blue states versus red states, two multi- cultural liberal coasts flanking a homogenized heartland of rural/suburban con- servatism. Rather, it's a nationwide canvas of rural and exurban red, accented evenly right across the continent with splotches of blue. These blue clusters are blue cities, where people live because they believe in public goods, appreciate diversity, support creativity, and define their relationship to the interdependent planet in terms of cooperation rather than rivalry, networking rather than inde- pendence. They face forward, moving with history's winds at their backs. They recognize that globalization cannot be rolled back but must be democratized. They look to bridges, not walls, as instruments of accommodation. It is these cities and their denizens that offer us a progressive path forward, notwithstanding Trump or the rising reactionary European nationalists at war with the European Union. We need to focus less on who is alhighligi in the White House and more on.who is in City Hall. Ur- ban district councils can count for more than the Senate. CYTIES RISING Congress may be bent on undermining democracy, but the metropolis is where the antidote—checks on abusive central-government power—can be found. There is a potent vertical separation of powers implicit in the Ninth and 10th Amendments to the Constitution, and it can serve as both a check on the abuse of execu- tive authority in the White House and a prompt to actions that can preserve and even advance the progressive agen- da in dark times. Particularly when they act in concert, cities—home to nearly 63 percent of the US population— , can secure and promote sustainability, immigrant rights, tolerance for diversity, and a struggle against terrorism that doesn't become a war on Islam. More immediately, cities can shield their communities against assaults on the rights and civil liberties of immigrants, Muslims, minorities, women, and other people under threat from a xenophobic central government and nationalist politicians. The vertical separation of powers isn't just a theory; it's a rationale for the resistance and action by cities already well under way. Jacques Derrida asked some 20 years ago, "Could the city, equipped with new rights and a greater sovereignty, open up new horizons of possibility, previous- ly undreamt of by international law?" The answer, clearly, is yes. And mayors, sensing the "new rights," know it. These mayors, and the residents who make their cit- A NATION SERIES We need to focus less on who is in the White House and more on who is in City Benjamin Barber is the distinguished senior fellow at Fordham School of Law's Urban Consortium. February 6/13, 2017 The Nation. 17 their moral duty—or so they will be told—to lend their voices to the cause. (Artists are always being lectured on their moral duty, a fate other professionals—dentists, for example—generally avoid.) But it's tricky telling creative people what to create or demanding that their art serve a high-minded agenda crafted by others. Those among them who follow such hortatory instructions are likely to produce mere propaganda or two-dimensional allegory— tedious sermonizing either way. The art galleries of the mediocre are wallpapered with good intentions. What then? What sort of genuine artistic response might be possible? Maybe social satire. Perhaps some- one will attempt the equivalent of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal," which suggested the consumption of babies as an economic solution to Irish poverty. But satire, alas, tends to falls flat when reality exceeds even the wildest exaggerations of the imagination—as it is in- creasingly doing today. Science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction have of- ten been used to register protest in times of political pres- sure. They have told the truth, but told it slant, as Yevgeny Zamyatin did in his 1924 noVel We, which anticipated the Soviet repressions to come. Many American writers took to science fiction in the McCarthy years because it allowed them to criticize their society without being too easily spotted by the powers intent on quashing criticism. Some will produce "witness art," like those artists who have responded to great catastrophes: wars, earthquakes, genocides. Surely the journal-keepers are already at work, inscribing events and their responses to them, like those who kept accounts of the Black Death until they themselves succumbed to it; or like Anne Frank, writ- ing her diary from her attic hiding place; or like Sam- uel Pepys, who wrote down what happened during the Great Fire of London. Works of simple witnessing can be intensely powerful, like Nawal El Sadaawi's Memoirs From the Women's Prison, about her time behind bars in Anwar Sadat's Egypt, or Yan Lianke's Four Books, which chronicles the famines and mass deaths in China during the Great Leap Forward. American artists and writers have seldom been shy about exploring the fissures and cracks in their own country. Let's hope that if democracy implodes and free speech is suppressed, someone will re- cord the process as it unfolds. N THE SHORT RUN, PERHAPS ALL WE CAN EXPECT from artists is only what we have always expect- ' ed. As once-solid certainties crumble, it may be enough to cultivate your own artistic garden—to do what you can as well as you can for as long as you can do it; to create alternate worlds that offer both temporary escapes and moments of insight; to open win- dows in the given world that allow us to see outside it. With the Trump era upon us, it's the artists and writ- ers who can remind us, in times of crisis or panic, that each one of us is more than just a vote, a statistic. Lives may be deformed by politics—and many certainly have been—but we are not, finally, the sum of our politicians. Throughout history, it has been hope for artistic work that expresses, for this time and place, as powerfully and eloquently as possible, what it is to be human. n 18 The Nation. February 6113,2017 ies spin, have been grabbing hold of this new authority, using it to fight for opportunity and against inequality since well before Trump set his sights on the White House. We have seen it in cities like New York and Chicago, where the Fight for $15 was born more than four years ago. We have seen it in the successful, city-based campaigns for paid-sick-leave legislation, fair- workweek initiatives, and universal pre-kindergarten programs. And a cou- ple of years ago, we saw it when a coalition of 25 mayors and local leaders, recognizing the need to embrace and protect new immigrants, launched Cit- ies for Action. Since then, the coalition, which has grown to more than 100 mayors, has supported President Obama against the Supreme Court ruling in United States v. Texas, which blocked his executive actions on immigration. The coalition also includes a number of sanctuary cities that have promised to protect immigrants. California, which is the world's sixth-largest economy, is also in effect America's largest city (with Oakland's ex-mayor as its governor and San Fran- cisco's ex-mayor as its lieutenant governor). It is pledging to counter federal actions aimed at sanctuary cities and undocumented immigrants. It has the full-throated support of sitting mayors like Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles. It may seem hyperbolic to refer to such bold municipalities as "rebel cit- ies," as geographer David Harvey has done in describing today's "urban revo- lution." But then you hear Governor Jerry Brown insisting that "If Trump turns off the satellites, California will launch its own damn satellite!" Or you catch New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio challenging Trump in a bracing speech just two weeks after the election: "If all Muslims are required to register, we will take legal action to block it. If the federal government wants our police officers to tear immigrant families apart, we will refuse to do it.... If the Justice Department orders local police to resume stop-and-frisk, we will not comply," de Blasio vowed. These are fighting words, as the mayor acknowledged, recalling that the principle of governance by the people is rooted in the Constitution and "decided at the local level." The Declaration of Independence, he noted, affirms that governments are "instituted deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"—and, de Blasio added pointedly, "We don't consent to hafted." HAT MAYORS ARE REALIZING IS THAT a fundamental devolution of power is under way—one that began well before the triumph of reactionary populism in Europe and the United States. This devolution revolution acknowledges the bottom-up char- acter of democratic sovereignty and puts muscle on the bones of the vertical separation of powers; it is rewriting the social contract in the very way that Derrida foresaw. The federalist principle, encoded in the Ninth and 10th Amendments (the Second Amendment isn't the end of the Bill of Rights), offers the rationale for a vertical separa- tion of powers: "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people," reads the Ninth. And "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitu- tion, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people," adds the Tenth. As a result, the Constitution empowers us to defend such sacred rights as inclusion, diversity, sustainability, and social justice. When a Trump-administration "patriot" cries, "U-S-A, U-S-A!," an urban patriot will proudly re- spond, "We are the world!" In Hershey, Pennsylvania, right before the election, Trump taunted: "From now on, it's going to be America first. There is no such thing as a global anthem, a global currency, a global flag." Yet city dwellers will demur. A global anthem? How about the "Ode to Joy" (the choral movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with its stir- ring line "All people will become brothers")? A global cur- rency? How about H2O: Water creates and sustains life on our planet without borders and can only be protected and conserved through cooperation. As for the global flag that Trump can't conjure, just Google Blue Marble—that very first image of our stunning Earth taken in 1972 from outer space, in which neither frontiers nor nations can be seen, only a bounteous but vulnerable planet. For all his bombast, Trump's nationalism is in fact pa- rochialism. Once upon a timt. , it was "liberal" nations that aspired to universality, while local jurisdictions were pro- vincial and particularistic. Today, the valence is reversed: Cities speak to global common goods—marriage rights, minimum wage, climate action, creative culture, respect for diversity, refuge for immigrants—while nations have turned inward and xenophobic. Urbanity is a global virtue associated with diversity and multiculturalism; nationalism has a parochial character that hunkers down behind walls. In this new world without borders, where no one na- tion can solve global problems alone, the cosmopolitan voice is, also history's voice. So as we watch the Republican Party try to undo Obama's legacy and close the road to immigration and inclusion, we need to listen to the voice of cities: to mayors Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Mar- ty Walsh of Boston on the coasts, ibut also to mayors from the heartland like Megan Barry of Nashville and Kasim Reed of Atlanta; to notable Democratic mayors like Bill de Blasio of New York and Michael Hancock of Denver, but also to Republican mayors with urban agendas like Mick Cornett of Oklahoma City and Richard Berry of Albuquerque, who are attuned to urban challenges rather than party ideology. They will tell you that what they share with Paris and Cape Town and Seoul and London is as important as what they share with Washington, DC. They will remind us that in order to hear the voice of England after Brexit, we must listen to the voice of Mar- vin Rees, the newly elected biracial mayor of Bristol, and of Sadiq Khan, a Pakistani bus driver's son who is now the mayor of London. They will rebuke the claim of the National Front's Marine Le Pen—who says that France and the United States are finally bound together by a shared contempt for Muslims and fear of immigrants— by pointing to Anne Hidalgo, the Spanish-born mayor of Paris. Hidalgo is the new chair of the C40 Cities Cli- mate Leadership Group, and she's working to forge a "Metropolis of Greater Paris" that incorporates both the wealthy inner city and the immigrant suburbs. Trump is no more the sole source of an American view on immigrants than Geert Wilders, Holland's anti-Muslim rabble-rouser, is the sole voice of the Dutch view. Listen, rather, to Ahmed Aboutaleb, the immensely popular Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam, or to Jozi- as van Aartsen, the mayor of The Hague, who hosted the founding meeting this past September of a new Global Parliament of Mayors, which may become for cities what the United Nations once hoped to be for nations. TAKE Benjamin Barber argues that cities offer the natural antidote to Trumpism. These organizations are making that vision real: )- The Global Parliament of Mayors: An inter- national body of mayors dedicated to working to- gether to address global challenges. globalparliament ofmayors.org Local Progress: A nationwide net- work of hundreds of local officials committed to ad- vancing progres- sive public policy. localprogress.org ) Cities for Ac- tion: A coalition of cities dedicated to supporting immigrants and inclusive immigra- tion policies. citiesforaction.us MEMl.t":"-. •%" CITIES RISING A NATION SERIES In this new world without borders, the cosmo- politan voice is also history's voice. Wye Collective action: New Yorkers take on Trump Tower, A S TRUMP ASSUMES POWER, THE SIMPLE truth he will have to accept is that nation- states are in trouble, not least because of the kind of assaults on their legitimacy that he __ embodies. And national governments are in disarray, from Brazil and Belgium to Hungary and the Philippines—not least because they've refused to rec- ognize the blunt realities of interdependence. The road to prosperity, no less than the road to global democracy, runs not through nations but through cities. To be sure, the country still counts. America surely must hear the voice of the "forgotten" voters who put Donald Trump in the White House: the angry rural whites and the neglected high-school dropouts and the women for whom race and class weigh more heavily than gender. Bill Clinton spoke prophetically about them back in 1995, in the wake of an earlier revolution that became known as Newt Gingrich's "Contract With America." Back then, a wave of disgruntled rural voters elected 60 new and deeply parochial members of Congress, flipping the House of Representatives to Republican control and blocking most of what Clinton was trying to enact. The president spoke wisely at a Camp David confab I attended back then, where he took on angry liberal staffers and even his own wife: I know how you feel. I understand Hillary's sense of outrage. It makes me mad, too. Sure, we lost our base in the South; boys voted for Gingrich: But let me tell you something. I know these boys, I grew up with them. Hardworking, poor white boys who feel left out.. Think about it, every progressive advance our country has made since the Civil War has been on their backs. They're the ones asked to pay the price of progress. Now, we are the party of progress, but let me tell you, until we find a way to include these boys in our programs, until we stop making them pay the whole price of liberty for others, we are never going to unite our party, never really going to have change that sticks. Clinton's prophetic words come tumbling down across the decades, a frenzied echo from an American past that, having been ignored, defeated Hillary and now stands ready to take the future of the United States hostage. But however justified the anger, however deaf that Democrats and liberals have been to the voices of these "poor white boys," we cannot afford to make war on each other, or on history. In remembering America's forgotten, we can- not forget the world of 7.3 billion people, most of whom are neither American nor white nor "Western," and the majority of whom live in cities, with whom our survival is inextricably bound and from whom no wall can divide us. We cannot permit President Trump to transform the resentment of power into its concentration and abuse. This will now be the task of cities, which must find a way to acknowledge these grievances without scapegoat- ing the very people whom the aggrieved are encouraged to blame. It is cities that must find a way to allow blacks and whites to join in opposition to monopoly power rather than, by being set against each other, to ensure its consolidation. It is in cities like Chicago—where Mar- tin Luther King Jr., toward the end of his life, devoted himself to the pursuit of racial justice in his Operation Breadbasket, and where gang violence and urban murder today belie the proud dreams of cosmopolitans—that ur- ban sovereignty will have to prove itself. Ironically, Donald Trump is a city boy from Queens. So despite his gift for manipulating the fears and resent- ments of those who despise everything the city stands for, maybe Trump can find a way to listen to the voice of cities 'as well as those of the suburbs and countryside. Or maybe cities will make him. January 31, 2017 Lois Langer Thompson, Director Hennepin County Library 12601 Ridgedale Drive Minnetonka, MN 55305 Dear Director Thompson, Why does the Hennepin County Library catalog still use the subject heading ILLEGAL ALIENS when the American Library Association last year condemned the term as "dehumanizing, offensive, inflammatory, and even a racial slur," rerommending it be rep1SE. y UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS7 Please don't "explain" teat HCL must wait for th timid Library of Congress to make the , ange first. HCL could h ve done it long ago. And_can Surely do it right now. The continu presence of ILLEGAL ALIENS is at once hurtful, misleading, an ronistic, and embarrassing. — / _ _ — _ e:-- With best wish Santo Ferman (, Head Cataloger Hennepin Count Library 1973-1999 ALA Honorary ember 4400 Mornin ide Road Edina, MN 5 416 952 925-57'8 Attachments: ALA "Resolution on Replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading 'Illegal Aliens' with 'Undocumented Immigrants'" (1-12-16) Partial HCL heading list Sample "Illegal Aliens" assignments cc: Star Tribune Edina Sun Current City Pages Edina Human Rights & Relations Commission Sen, Melissa Franzen American Libraries Unabashed Librarian 2015-2016 ALA CD#34_1016_act 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting Resolution on Replacing the Library of Congress Subject Heading "Illegal Aliens" with "Undocumented Immigrants" Whereas the terms "illegal" and "alien," when used in reference to people, have undergone pejoration and acquired derogatory connotations, becoming increasingly associated with nativist and racist sentiments; Whereas the appropriateness of the word "alien" as a legal term is being questioned, with the New York Times Editorial Board calling for it to be retired and the state of California passing SB 432 to remove it from the state's labor code; Whereas referring to undocumented immigrants as "illegal" is increasingly viewed as dehumanizing, offensive, infl7mmatory, and even a racial slur; Whereas a national campaigns such as "Drop the I-Word" and #WordsMatter are urging news media to stop using the word "illegal" to describe immigrants; Whereas many news organizations have committed to not using the word "illegal" to describe immigrants, including the Associated Press, USA Today, ABC, The Chicago Tribune, and the LA Times; Whereas college students have petitioned the Library of Congress to retire the subject heading Illegal aliens; Whereas there is no explicit mandate from Congress that LC must follow the U.S. Code terminology in this matter; Whereas the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) Thesaurus and MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) both use the term Undocumented immigrants, and both are produced by federal government agencies; Whereas the ALA Policy B.3 (Diversity) states that "ALA recognizes the critical need for access to library and information resources, services, and technologies by all people, especially those who may experience... discrimination on the basis of appearance, ethnicity, immigrant status...;" and Whereas the ALA Policy B.1.1 (Core Values of Librarianship) states that all library users should receive "accurate, unbiased, and courteous responses to all requests;" now, therefore, be it Resolved, that the American Library Association, on behalf of its members: urges the Library of Congress to change the subject heading Illegal aliens to Undocumented immigrants. 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To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Correspondence From:Kelly Dumais, City Management Fellow Item Activity: Subject:Invoice: League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions Information CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: Discuss participation in the League of Minnesota Cities INTRODUCTION: ATTACHMENTS: Description Invoice: League of Minnesota Cities „ r u ‘•-k‘na‘v.est>Th. %-\\--tv-usi"-\ LA;v-xrS ,141•AM.k s cz)i`J J-A L.axe.rc\i 1;CN"J ,Ns)21Z1 vtE. t‘ "c2-0";630•-•4 S•A' t•-'t NJ 5S-142.-7— klk)tt.AL4 t-VTS Cr ,ANA J-StM ni r TE,1'..; •-• -3S14. 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111101i1111 League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions David A. Singleton, President (;63) 535-0151 4100 Lakeview Avenue North Robbinsdale, MN 55422 02-010012-E Human Rights Commission January 11, 2017 City of Edina HRCE 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424-1394 Date T )e Invoice Description Amount Payment Balance 1/11/2017 Regular 02-010012 League Dues 2017 $ 100.00 $ 100.00 Total $ 100.00 League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions HRCE January ||.20|7 $100.00 Page 1 Date: February 28, 2017 Agenda Item #: X.B. To:Human Rights and Relations Commission Item Type: Other From:MJ Lamon, Project Coordinator Item Activity: Subject:Important Dates Information CITY OF EDINA 4801 West 50th Street Edina, MN 55424 www.edinamn.gov ACTION REQUESTED: None. INTRODUCTION: Upcoming meeting and event dates. Consider participating in a focus group about the City's website redesign. Contact Krystal Caron at kcaron@edinamn.gov to RSVP. Annual Volunteer Awards Reception ATTACHMENTS: Description City of Edina Focus Group 2017 Important Dates and Roster Annual Volunteer Awards Reception Invite 2/16/2017 City of Edina Focus Group Invite Subscribe Share Past Issues Translate View this email in your browser The CITY of DINA „„ For living, learning, raising families & doing business Feedback Needed: City of Edina Focus Group The City of Edina will hold two focus groups with residents to discuss the City's website and upcoming redesign. Residents are invited to participate in one of the two focus groups led by Civic Plus, the City's consultant for the website redesign: • 2 p.m. Wednesday, March 1 • 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 1 Please email me at kcaron@EdinaMN.gov or call 952-826-0347 for more information or to sign up to participate. Space is limited. All participants must have used the City of Edina's website within the past year. Thank you! Krystal Caron Communications Coordinator 952-826-0347 KCaron@EdinaMN.gov Does Facebook Twitter Email Website http://us8.campaign-archivetcomnu=d26a74dia98d6d3253219b5f2&id=d68f0d6586&e=4f5216a2df 1/2 Meetings and Events Day Date Event Time Location Tues Jan 24 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues Feb 28 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues Mar 28 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Mon April 3 Volunteer Recognition 5:00 pm Braemar Golf Course Tues April 25 BC Member Annual Meeting 5:00 pm Braemar Golf Course Tues April 25 Regular Meeting - CANCELED 7:00 pm Community Room Sun May 7 Days of Remembrance 1:00 pm City Hall Lobby/Chambers Tues May 23 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues June 20 Work Session w/ City Council 6:00 pm Community Room Tues June 27 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues July 25 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues August 22 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues Sept 26 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues Oct 24 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Tues Nov 14 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Thurs Dec 7 Regular Meeting 7:00 pm Community Room Roster Name Email Phone Pat Arseneault arseneault.westchester@gmail.com (952) 367-7951 Catherine Beringer cat.beringer@gmail.com Heather Edelson hmedelson@gmail.com (651) 785-8696 Cindy Edwards ckeeaf@icloud.com Ellen Kennedy kennedy@worldwithoutgenocide.org (952) 693-5206 Kristina Martin kristinaj.martin@yahoo.com (952) 261-4171 Michelle Meek michelle@redpillchicago.com (773)-220-3120 Jim Nelson jnelson6001@gmail.com (612) 889-7309 Robert Rivera rjrivera76@gmail.com Connie Chao (student) connie.amy@hotmail.com Prasoon Sinha (student) sinhaprasoon@gmail.com (952) 922-8658 MJ Lamon (Staff Liaison) mlamon@edinamn.gov (952) 826-0360 Kelly Dumais (City Management Fellow) kdumais@edinamn.gov (952) 826-0429 1 MJ Lamon From:Scott Neal, City of Edina <smohamed=EdinaMN.gov@mail148.atl81.rsgsv.net> on behalf of Scott Neal, City of Edina <smohamed@EdinaMN.gov> Sent:Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:58 PM To:MJ Lamon Subject:You're Invited: Volunteer Awards Reception View this email in your browser Share Tweet Forward Good afternoon MJ: The City of Edina will be hosting its 38th Annual Volunteer Awards Reception at 5 p.m. Monday, April 3 at the Braemar Golf Course Clubhouse, 6364 John Harris Drive. We hope that you, as a community leader, will promote the event in your organization and consider joining us to honor individuals and groups who have made a difference in the community. This year organizations and clubs are asked to register their award recipient using the online registration form. Organization/Club registrations are due by 4:30 p.m. March 17. Also new this year, the City will be taking online event registrations. To register and purchase event tickets, visit our event page. Cost is $20 per person and registration is due by 4:30 p.m. March 17. (Please note, registrations are non- refundable after March 17.) 2 Mayor James Hovland will also be presenting six Mayor's Commendation Awards. Anyone may nominate as many people/organizations as they would like for these awards. To submit a nomination, use the online nomination form. Nominations are due by 4:30 p.m. March 13. All questions about the event can be forwarded to Executive Assistant, Sulekha Mohamed, at smohamed@edinamn.gov or 952-826-0403. We look forward to another great event this year. I hope you will be able to join us! Sincerely, Scott Neal Edina City Manager Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Email Website Copyright © 2017 City of Edina, All rights reserved. You're receiving this email because you live in the City of Edina or have opted in to receive information from the City of Edina. Our mailing address is: City of Edina 4801 W. 50th St. Edina, MN 55424 3 Add us to your address book unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences