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Orange County · Human Relations Commission
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Regular meeting Civil rights and nondiscriminationAppointments and personnelElections and districtsHistoric preservationParks and recreationEthics and transparency

Agenda document Minutes Watch Meeting recap

What's on this agenda

A ninety-minute monthly meeting. The Blackwood Farms commemorative marker returns as an action item, the executive committee reports on elections and membership vacancies, and the August retreat is fixed for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

This is the earliest point in the year where the Blackwood Farms marker appears on the commission's agenda as an action item, and it runs from here through June, August and on to the Parks and Recreation Council in September - a commemorative marker moving between the body that decides what it should say and the body that owns the land it will stand on.

The commission is also holding internal elections alongside its membership vacancies, and fixing the date of the retreat that produced its subcommittee charters, three-year strategy and ten-year vision.

Its standing public comment rule is worth repeating because of what the body does: speakers are asked not to share personal identifying information or details of an active complaint or investigation, and the chair may redirect anyone who does to the complaint process, so a public meeting does not become the hearing.

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Orange County's own rules for public comment — check them before you rely on anything here.

Agenda items (8)

Procedural · 4Minutes approval · 1Staff or committee report · 1Discussion item · 1Appointment · 1
  1. 5 Public Comment (Non-Agenda Items)
    Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    Ten minutes for comment on human relations, civil rights and community conditions in Orange County.
  2. 6 County Update — Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life
    Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    The commission's advisory role on discrimination, civil inequality, education and outreach, and its recommendations to the county commissioners.
  3. 7 Action Item: Blackwood Farms Marker Update
    Minutes approval Historic preservationParks and recreation
    An update on the commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms. The item returned to the commission in June and August and reached the county parks and recreation council in September.
  4. 8 Executive Committee Report
    Procedural Appointments and personnelCivil rights and nondiscriminationElections and districtsEthics and transparency
    Ten minutes. Speakers are asked not to share personal identifying information or details of an active complaint, investigation or case, and the chair may redirect anyone who does to the complaint process.
  5. 9 Sub-Committee Reports
    Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    Outreach and Engagement reported on tabling and outreach to Orange County organizations. Community Events reported on the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations.
  6. 10 Board Member Comments
    Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscriminationHistoric preservationParks and recreation
    A commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms, which returns to the commission in June and August and goes to the Parks and Recreation Council in September.
  7. 11 Announcements & Future Agenda Items
    Appointment Appointments and personnelCivil rights and nondiscriminationElections and districts
    Elections and membership vacancies, and the August retreat fixed for 22 August.
  8. 12 Adjournment
    Procedural

Agenda changes

What moved between published versions of this agenda. Item numbers shift constantly as things are inserted, so only genuine additions and removals are listed.

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