Evansville HRC approves minutes, notes vacancies and moves meeting time to 3:30 p.m.

The Evansville-Vanderburgh County Human Relations Commission approved the minutes from its previous meeting, reviewed expiring terms and vacancies, and confirmed a schedule change for next year.

At the start of the meeting, Speaker 1 asked whether members had reviewed the prior minutes. "I'll make a motion that we approve the minutes," announced Commissioner Patterson (as recorded by the chair); the motion was seconded by Commissioner Collins, and two affirmative vocal responses were recorded with no opposition. The chair declared the minutes approved.

Speaker 1 identified commissioners whose terms expire at the end of the year (Commissioner Johnson, Commissioner Collins, Commissioner Phipps, Commissioner Moore and Commissioner Patterson) and encouraged anyone interested in continuing to reapply through the city website. The speaker also noted there were "two vacancies on the commission" to be filled via city council appointments.

Speaker 5 raised an operational note about meeting time: the building now closes earlier, and the commission "may need to change our time next year to start at 03:30." The group confirmed the change, and members indicated the first meeting under the new time would be the fourth Thursday in January.

The meeting closed after a motion to adjourn was made (recorded as motion by Commissioner Patterson and second by Commissioner Collins as announced); the chair declared the meeting adjourned and offered holiday well-wishes.

Recorded motions at this meeting included approval of the prior minutes and the motion to adjourn; vote responses were vocal and not documented with named roll-call votes in the transcript.