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r <br />co,utP of 0� <br />J�, • e� ��'I 010 <br />W 4v Tlei. <br />�l 52 <br />a <br />O <br />Pat* <br />HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />NORTH CAROLINA <br />MEMO <br />TO: Moses Carey, Jr., Chair <br />Orange County Board of Commissioners <br />FROM: Quinton Baker, Chair <br />Orange County Human Relations Commission <br />DATE: November 27, 1996 <br />RE: Commission Priorities for FY 1997 -1998 <br />The Human Relations Commission has discussed its top priorities for the next fiscal year. <br />Commission members believe that the framework for these. priorities is the creation of the kind of <br />community that can be a model for human relations in the 21st century. Orange County, like the <br />rest of the nation, is facing daunting new challenges, including the rapid growth of new <br />populations. Communities face the issues of healthy inclusion of these new residents when for the <br />most part they have not yet addressed the inequalities that exist among those residents who <br />already live there. We want to help build a model that is proactive in diffusing potential tensions, <br />that promotes and builds community, that taps the skills and abilities of all residents, and that will <br />provide equal opportunity and equal access to all. We hope that the County Commissioners will <br />adopt the making of this kind of community as one of their own goals. <br />Within this larger framework, the Commission has two top priorities: <br />f.. _ To continue to develop implementation of and outreach strategies for the Civil Rights <br />Ordinance. With the employment provision of the Ordinance taking effect in January 1996, and <br />the development of work- sharing agreements with the Equal Employment Opportunity <br />Commission and the Department of Housing and Urban Development in recent months, there <br />have been forty -five discrimination complaints to date. The Commission will also continue <br />regular workshops. and provision of technical assistance to businesses. <br />2. To build and foster a relationship with the community that focuses on education and the <br />".� prevention of bias and discriminatory acts, and on the promotion of healthy inclusion of all <br />residents into the fabric of our community. <br />We are ready and willing to discuss this goal and any other human relations issues at your <br />upcoming retreat if the Board wishes. Thank you for this opportunity to share our priorities with <br />the County Commissioners. <br />cc: Human Relations Commission members <br />