Calgary HRC Minutes (May 2012)

RO Contact:   Alec Goertzen / Raj Hari 

Minutes - Human Rights Committee Meeting – May 9, 2012

CalgaryRegional Office

Those in Attendance:

Evelyn Egger, Garth Caron, Timothy Hunt, Dale Marianiucz, Emma Bertamini, Victoria Budd, Raj Hari

Congratulations to Robyn Benson on her newly elected position-President PSAC.

 Review of the previous HRCMeeting minutes of November 23, 2011 (note the last meeting was cancelled due to lack of quorum): 

• Motion to accept the previous minutes –  Garth, seconded by Emma. 

          Unanimous

 Budget presented by Timothy, discussion ensued, final numbers are now published and will be sent to Ottawa/ Region (attachment): 

• Motion to accept the revised Budget > Evelyn, seconded by Garth 

           Unanimous 

 Timothy gave a brief presentation about Social Justice Program, and how the PSAC

Social Justice Program works, and how we have received sponsorship.   Included was a brief history of the committee and our work to date.   The result was a $2,500 sponsorship from the Social Justice Fund for our event.

• Motion to write cheque $2500 – GlobalFest > Timothy, seconded by Garth 

         Unanimous

 Funds are expected from Social Justice Fund shortly via Louise Casselman

GlobalFest: A thank-you was sent out for our participation and our volunteerism for 2011 citizenship ceremony.   The ceremony was a complete success!  GlobalFest have requested we provide volunteers for that event again this year.  Our committee has accepted the request and we will send out a call to our current volunteer list during the Aboriginal Awareness event in June 21^st, 2012.   Louise Casselman will be providing the cheque to the Calgary Regional Office

A cheque for our sponsorship was due and our committee has enough to cover the cheque, GlobalFest 2012 cheque was issued for $2,500.00.  Raj, Garth and Timothy were invited to the “family lunch” and we presented the cheque for our sponsorship.

Things to do for our events in August 2012:

• Display booth in aboriginal village
• Designated seats at the lunch and learns. (arrive 10 minutes before the presentation) after that time the seats will be open to the public.
• GlobalFest tickets to fireworks will be sold at ½ price, for all PSAC members in Calgaryand surrounding areas
• Booth set up at EllistonPark:  ideas:  raise money for aboriginal initiative. 
• Posters (sold for a donation of $1) committee will designate one or several initiatives for donations
• Alex George – PSAC Aboriginal liaison may donate vests and t-shirts for the volunteers from the NAPSI funding
 

Needs to be done:

• Kettle or Drum (burch bark pot) to collect donations (Garth)
• Request to CANE for tipi to be sent up for duration of GlobalFest.  Approved.
• Request CANE provide T-shirts for volunteers.  Approved (approx 30)
• Request CANE (Emma) “Did you know” slogans to be displayed at park
• Initiative to start at NAD (National Aboriginal Day) celebrations.  HRCwill set up display and we will get some pamphlets from GlobalFest to hand out at CANE celebration June 21, 2012

 Motion to donate $200 to CANE for NAD celebrations, discussion that the two events would benefit each other and work well together:

• Motioned by Garth, seconded by Timothy 

          Unanimous

 Fairy Tales Film Festival update, the festival will run from May 24-June 02.  Timothy to provide schedule, as brochure is not up to date.  Region has sponsored $350 on our behalf and Brother Timothy was able to get the Canadian Labour Congress and the Alberta Federation of Labour to match funding.   We will be getting Silver level funding this year and a half page advertisement in the program.

HRCwill sponsor a short at the beginning of each of the films on Wednesday May 29^th.  AlbertaFederation of Labour: celebration in EdmontonJune 16^th – Timothy will attend with the newly designed House of Labour designed by SAIT students.

Calgary on Sept 2^nd during the Gay Pride parade.

During the campaign of 2011, when were working with the Calgary Handi-Bus organization, we neglected to actually issue a cheque with the remaining monies we had from the Social Justice Funding we received.   It was the will of the committee to dispense funding to the Calgary Handi-Bus on behalf of the PSAC.

• Motion to write a cheque $500 to Calgary Handi-Bus as promised during PWD campaign of 2011 by Timothy, seconded by Evelyn  
Unanimous

Emma motioned to adjourn the meeting at 7:30 pm, seconded by Dale Marianiucz

Unanimous

 Meeting was adjourned. 

 Volunteers needed for EllistonPark(Approximate time 5:15-9PMeach evening)

Thurs Aug 16

Sat Aug 18

Mon Aug 20

Wed Aug 22

Fri Aug 24

Sun Aug 26  

The lunch and learns on during the lunch hour at the City of Calgary Main Library are free and it is encourage that departments and agencies be notified to allow for a longer lunch hour to attend these functions for Aboriginal Awareness Week.