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Town of Lexington, Human Rights Committee Meeting Friday, June 7, 2019 Lexington Community Center 8:06-9:32 Present Committee Members: Tanya Gisolfi (Vice Chair), Mona Roy (Clerk), James Barry (Police Department), Bonnie Brodner, Jeffrey Toronto, Fuang Ying Huang Liaisons and Guests: Scott Bokun (School Committee), Brent Maracle (LICA), Tony Serio (Human Services), Mabel Amar (guest), Aidan Evelyn (Police), Mark Corr(Chief of Police), Patricia Jacotin (SEPAL), Stanley Yap (CARL) 1. Welcome at 8:06 2. Public Comments on Items Not on Agenda (None) 3. Chair Report given by Ms. Gisolfi • Noted Vigil to respect and honor the life of Ms. Shen Cai is scheduled to be held on Sunday, June 9, 2019 from 5 to 6 pm at Hastings Park. This event is sponsored by the Lexington Department of Human Services along with the Lexington Community Coalition, Chinese American Association of Lexington (CARL), and Chinese Americans of Lexington (CALEX) The Town is currently planning a Community Conversation with a facilitated discussion on how Ms. Cai's death is impacting our community. For more information on the community conversation contact Melissa Interess, Director of Human Services at 781-698-4841 or minteressO lexin tonma. ov. Recently, the committee has received complaints of incidents of harassment or discrimination that have occurred while the targets have been walking on the town's sidewalks. If you are the target of or witness to what you perceive to be a human rights incident, we urge you to make yourself safe, collect and record as much information about the incident as possible and report the incident to the LHRC at humanrightscmte@lexingtonma.gov and LPS at 911 as soon as possible. • During our September 2019 meeting, the LHRC will hold annual elections for chair, vice chair and clerk. Committee members interested in standing as a candidate for committee chair, vice chair or clerk should contact FuangYing Huang or Jim Barry by August 23, 2019. • Noted LHRC history. LHRC's first meeting in September 2008 where Al Zabin was elected chair, Bob Kent was elected vice chair and FuangYing Huang was elected clerk. Venerable volunteers like Hank Manz and Leona Martin were part of the founding of the committee. Mr. Osborne joined and was elected chair in May 2015, Bhumip Khasnabish was elected as vice chair and FuangYing Huang continued to serve as clerk. October 2017, FuangYing Huang was elected vice chair of our committee and Tanya 1625 MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE•LEXINGTON,MASSACHUSETTS 02420