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I March 31, 1981 TO: Honorable Mayor James Senden and Members of the City Council FROM: G. R. Kastner, Chair, Human Rights Commission RE: Activities of Commission During 1st Quarter of 1981 Planning Every January the Human Rights Commission regularly reviews its activities of the previous year and establishes general or specific goals for the coming year. Each member of the Commission is encouraged to be involved with one or more of the goals that the Commission establishes. I In recent years the Human Rights commission has had its full membership at its January meeting to facilitate this planning, and the City Council has not provided suggestions for Human Rights Commission activity. Consequently these internally conceived goals could be carried through by their originators with little interaction with the City Council. 1981 began differently as the Human Rights Commission was lacking two (2) members for the entire first quarter, and the City Council found a mechanism for giving guidance to the Human Rights Commission on topics to be studied, monitored, or overseen. The result of these two (2) changes is that the Human Rights Commission has two (2) sets of activities not mutually exclusive and with some overlap to work on, but only now has a full Commission to carry them through. ACTIVITIES: I City Goals The Human Rights Commission has dismissed six (6) of the City's 1981 goals as not pertaining to their charge and believes two (2) others are only related in passing to our responsibilities. Of the remaining seven (7), two (2), the hiring of a new City Manager and the improvement of management systems in the City, are of interest to the Human Rights Commission through our concern with Affirmative Action and the training program which we reconunended to the City. The training occurred in January 1981, and we intend to do follow-up work once we see the final report of the training consultants. As for our monitoring of the protected class status of applicants for the position of City Manager, a separate report will be forth-coming to you on that process.