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Fargo Human Rights Commission debates restructure or return to city control before April 27 deadline
Summary
Members of Fargo’s Human Rights Commission debated whether to revise a circulated proposal, ask the city to dissolve the commission, or partner with community groups to continue human-rights work. Staff warned ordinance changes would take about six weeks and the April 27 City Commission meeting is the operative deadline.
FARGO — Members of the Fargo Human Rights Commission spent a working session discussing whether to finish a draft reorganization plan, put a resolution to the City Commission to return authority to the city, or pursue a community-based alternative that would keep human-rights work alive if the city dissolves the commission.
The commission’s secretary (speaker 1) told members the group had been asked to restructure since January and that an initial two-month window to complete that work had expired. "We requested additional 60 days," the secretary said, arguing the group must either finalize a proposal or forward a resolution so the city can decide.
Alyssa Farrell Chaposki of the City Attorney’s Office said any ordinance or charter changes would require the city’s formal process — receive-and-file, first reading and second reading — which generally takes about six weeks. "So whatever decision is made, everyone stays as is until that six-week process is over," Chaposki said.
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