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Orange County · Human Relations Commission
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Regular meeting Civil rights and nondiscriminationArts and public artHistoric preservationHousing and affordability

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What's on this agenda

The Orange County Human Relations Commission spent most of its 25 March 2025 meeting on the graves at Blackwood Farm, where the county's cultural resources coordinator asked the commission to help erect markers. Staff also told the commission that the equity and inclusion office will be renamed Human Relations and Civil Rights, and that fair housing work will return to it.

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Meeting recap

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

Peter Sandbeck of historic preservation gave the commission 45 minutes on the graves at Blackwood Farms, with slides and research, and asked to work with the commission and other boards on putting markers at the site. That is the same marker project the commission was still finishing 18 months later.

Staff reported that the county's equity and inclusion office would be renamed Human Relations and Civil Rights, with fair housing coming back into it. They flagged a youth leadership information session on April 17 and a poetry event on April 26 at the Eno River Mill.

With a week to go before the deadline, the Pauli Murray Awards had drawn two student entries and none from adults or businesses, and the vice chair asked every commissioner to nominate one of each before April 1. The awards were set for May 18, though the venue was unconfirmed and the intended speaker had withdrawn for a family medical reason. Five of the eight commissioners attended.

How the votes went

Two votes, both unanimous: approval of the agenda, moved by Commissioner Jones and seconded by Commissioner Hogans, and adjournment on the same pairing.

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Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

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Agenda items (7)

Procedural · 3Staff or committee report · 2Presentation · 1Discussion item · 1
  1. I Call to Order
    Procedural
    Called to order 6:08 p.m.
  2. II Blackwood Farms
    Presentation Arts and public artCivil rights and nondiscriminationHistoric preservation
    The county's cultural resources coordinator presented research on the graves at Blackwood Farm and asked the commission to work with other boards on permanent markers at the site.
  3. III Agenda Approval
    Procedural
    Approved unanimously
  4. IV County Updates
    Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscriminationHousing and affordability
    The equity and inclusion office will be renamed Human Relations and Civil Rights, and fair housing work returns to it. A youth leadership information session is set for 17 April and a poetry event for 26 April at Eno River Mill.
  5. V Executive Committee Report
    Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
    Two student entries and no adult or business nominations had come in. The vice chair asked each commissioner to nominate one of each before 1 April.
  6. VI Sub-Committee Reports
    Staff or committee report Arts and public artCivil rights and nondiscrimination
    The Pauli Murray Award is set for 18 May at 3 p.m., with the venue unconfirmed and the invited speaker withdrawn for a family medical reason.
  7. VIII Adjourn
    Procedural
    Adjourned 7:30 p.m.

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