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SocialServiceHumanRelationsBoard | 2005-06-01 | 1 | SPECIAL MEETING OF THE SOCIAL SERVICE HUMAN RELATIONS BOARD Wednesday, June 1, 2005 CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL: President Franz Called Meeting to Order at 6:15 pm. Present: President Franz, Vice-President Chen (Arrived at 6:18 pm), Members Hanna, Bonta, Wasko, Flores-Witte (Arrived at 6:25 pm) Absent: Member Hollinger-Jackson Staff: Harris CONSIDERATION OF LETTER TO THE EDITOR REGARDING HATE-FREE CITY POLICY (taken out of order) Carol Beaver reported that Interim City Manager Norton approved the SSHRB/ATAH sending a letter to the editor in response to an earlier letter to the editor about discrimination in Alameda, and suggested a change to the third paragraph to reflect the many ways in which children can learn discriminatory behavior, i.e."A slur overheard from a family member, in the media, or by a member of the community at large can result in hateful behavior in the sandbox the next day." The letter will be signed "Alamedans Together Against Hate, a work group of the Social Service Human Relations Board." Jim Franz will speak to the Editors of the Sun and the Journal to confirm that they are willing to print a letter without a person's name on it. If they are unwilling to do so, the letter will be signed Dennis J. Hanna, Chair of the Alamedans Together Against Hate Work Group and Jim Franz, President of the Social Service Human Relations Board. A motion and second (Chen/Wasko) to send the letter to the editor with the above changes was unanimously approved. WORK SESSION TO REVIEW NEEDS ASSESSMENT PILOT SURVEY RESPONSES: Harris provided a summary of the first 91 responses to the survey from the Festival of Families. There are additional surveys to be added but they are in Chinese and Harris could not read them. Member Wasko will have one of her staff input the Chinese language surveys. Harris feels that the survey generated some solid statistics but suspects that some of the survey questions were misunderstood and did not generate accurate results. Harris noted internal discrepancies within the questions, such as people earning large incomes who say they live at Alameda Point Collaborative. Member Wasko noted that the group needs actual statistics on % of questions where answers contradicted themselves before making a decision on how to adjust the survey. Harris stated that she was only giving her impressions and not a scientific analysis of the results. All of the members agreed to individually review survey responses and then consider appropriate next steps at a future AAWG meeting. Dedicated to Excellence, Committed to Service | SocialServiceHumanRelationsBoard/2005-06-01.pdf |