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Human Services / Human Rights
The purpose of the Human Services/Human Rights Commission will be to advise the City
Council in the timely and successful implementation of the following. This effort will involve cooperation and
interaction with the Department of Human Rights of the State of Minnesota, the Human Rights Commission of other
municipalities and counties, various governmental, non-profit and private agencies and, most importantly, the
citizens of the City.
2010 City of Cottage Grove Essay and Poster Contest!
Theme: Diversity in Cottage Grove: How increased ethnic and cultural diversity is changing our community, and how we can make everyone feel welcome.
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Commission's Purpose
- Encourage all citizens, whether individual or corporate, to join in establishing and preserving full and true
equality among all residents and visitors and to discourage any form of discriminatory practices.
- Declare as civil rights the rights of all persons to equal opportunities in employment, real property, public
accommodations, public service, education and credit without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national
origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or status with regard to public assistance.
- Prevent and prohibit any and all discriminatory practices based on race, color, creed, religion, national
origin, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, or status with regard to public assistance
with respect to employment, real property, public property, public accommodations, public services, education
and credit.
- Encourage all citizens to become better informed concerning the human rights, needs and problems, so as to
eliminate misinformation as one of the basic causes of discriminatory practices.
- Make every effort to inform the citizens of the City of, and assist them in, making use of the many human
services available to them at the federal, state and local levels of government, from non-profit organizations
and from private sources.
- Effect the foregoing policy by means of public information and education.
Duties
- To enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Human Rights Department of the State of Minnesota
describing the area of cooperative responsibility between the State Department of Human Rights and the Human
Services/Human Rights Commission of the City in attaining the full benefits of the State Human Rights Act for
the citizens of the City.
- To study, report and undertake other functions as are assigned to local commissions.
- To provide information to the citizens of the City concerning human services available to them and to assist
them, when possible, in obtaining these services.
- To review the personnel policies of the City in regard to compliance with federal, state and local equal
opportunities and civil rights legislation, and provide recommendations and comments to the City Council for
consideration.
- To provide for the education of the citizens of the City in the area of human services by means of seminars,
guest speakers and distribution of publications.
- The commission is responsible to the City Council and has no authority to take action without Council approval.
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