MASON CITY – The Mason City Human Rights Commission will meet on Thursday for its monthly meeting.
The agenda calls for a discussion on an “operations report” proposed by Commissioner Brian McNamara, who was appointed by Mayor Eric Bookmeyer. The operations report would be a chart listing all of the commission’s housing and employment case activities each month, including monthly expenses.
Bookmeyer and the Mason City Council have floated the idea of eliminating housing and employment cases from the scope of work the Human Rights Commission handles.
NIT is told from an insider that McNamara worked with Mayor Eric Bookmeyer to come up with the idea of the chart. Bookmeyer “wants to compile numbers as he did a couple of years ago to put the commission out of business,” the insider told NIT.
NIT is also told that originally, McNamara wanted the types of cases the commission is handling added to the chart as well as the names of the parties involved, but that information is confidential and he was told it could not be disclosed.
More on this item after Thursday’s meeting.