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AMES HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION
Conference Room 235
City Hall, 515 Clark Avenue
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Call to Order: The meeting was called to order at 5:37pm by Chair Joel Hochstein.
Members present were Jill Crosser and Madesh Samanu
Members Absent: Wayne Clinton and Liming Pals
Guests: Susan Gwiasda, Public Relations Officer, City of Ames
Staff Liaison: Deb Schildroth
Approval of Minutes: Moved by Masdesh and seconded by Jill to approve the August
24, 2019 and October 2, 2019 minutes. Motion carried.
Focus Group Planning: There was discussion to change direction from convening
focus groups to creating an electronic survey as a means to capture more input. Joel
moved that questions be placed into an electronic survey and Jill seconded. Motion
carried.
Electronic survey tools such as Qaultrics, Google Forms, and Survey Monkey were
mentioned as possible tools. Susan Gwiasda was asked to join the discussion given
her experience with the annual city resident survey. This survey is done through the
city’s website, and Susan will be checking with the City’s IT Department to see if there
are any limitations with utilizing the City’s website for the AHRC survey.
A tentative timeline for the survey is as follows:
November AHRC meeting Approve the survey
December 2, 2019 – February 15, 2020 Survey opens
February 2020 AHRC meeting Responses reviewed by Commission
Commission members are interested in mapping survey responses, so Deb will check
with the City’s GIS Coordinator to see if a map of Ames split into quadrants can be
obtained.
2019 Symposium on Building Inclusive Organizations: Jill and Wayne are
registered to attend the symposium on October 29th. Joel asked for a Commission
member to volunteer to serve on next year’s symposium planning committee. Jill
volunteered. Thanks, Jill!
Designating a Representative to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Planning
Committee: Madesh moved Wayne continue as the representative. Jill seconded.
Motion Carried.
Humanitarian Award – Moved by Madesh and seconded by Jill to change the
application due date to December 8, 2019. Motion carried. Joel stated this award is
announced at the MLK Day celebration on January 20, 2020. He will be asking an
AHRC Commission representative to be present and present the award. Other entities
involved in the MLK Day celebration are Ames Community School District, City of
Ames, League of Women Voters of Ames, Story County, NAACP- Ames Chapter, and
the Volunteer Center of Story County.
Commissioner Announcements: None.
Next Meetings: November 21, 2019 at 5:30pm and December 16, 2019 at 5:30pm
Adjournment: Madesh moved to adjourn. The meeting adjourned at 6:36p.m.