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Summarized by Kent Larsen
Gilbert Arizona Mayor Names LDS Stake President to Diversity Task Force
GILBERT, ARIZONA -- Gilbert, Arizona mayor Cynthia Dunham named LDS
Stake President John Lewis to a 42-member task force to tackle
diversity in the town. Dunham released the names of the 42 Gilbert
residents selected and mailed a letter to them on Thursday, calling
in the letter for the group to meet on September 20th and to work
towards a permanent diversity council for the town.
The mayor proposed the diversity task force and got unanimous
approval from the town council for it in the wake of attacks by the
White supremacist Devil Dog gang and before complaints that the
Gilbert Unified School District favored Mormons and discriminated
against minorities. But Dunham delayed forming the task force until
after the school district finished its policy against racial
harrassment, billed as the toughest in the state. The leaders of the
school district's committee to write the new policy are among those
on the task force.
Dunham asked Stake President Lewis, along with Chandler-Gilbert
Community College president Arnette Ward to lead the group,
suggesting that they needed to take a hard look at the changing
population of the town. "Diversity is not something you can just hand
over to a committee," Dunham said. "It has to come from the entire
community."
Source:
Gilbert's mayor picks 42 for diversity task force
(Phoenix) AZ Republic 4Aug00 D1
By Edythe Jensen: The Arizona Republic
See also:
Mormons dispute favoritism in Gilbert
LDS Accused Of Bias In Arizona
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