Consumer Affairs Commission — Skokie, IL
Date: 2022-07-13

CONSUMER AFFAIRS COMMISSION AGENDA
 July 13, 2022
 Meeting Room A


1. Intro topic

2. Approval of minutes

3. Farmers Market
 Manager update

4. Business of the Year
 Review of questionnaire

5. Media Literacy Education
 Report on July 12 program

6. Miscellaneous




 Sec 2-812 Duties

 It shall be the duty of the Consumer Affairs Commission to coordinate consumer affairs activities, carry
 on educational activities on consumer matters, supervise the preparation of consumer affairs reports
 and recommend to the Mayor and the Board of Trustees ordinances, rules and regulations and
 methods of enforcement in relation to consumer affairs activities.

Consumer Affairs Commission
 Minutes
 July 13, 2022

In attendance: Trustee Khoeun, Joanne Haeberlin, Anil Pillai, George Mathew, Jerry
Kirkpatrick, Davorka Kirincic, Justin Malone.
Phone: Gary Merrill
Excused: Jeff Schvimer, Howard Meyer, Sam Pratap, Pouriya Soltani, Biju Krishnan, Jennifer
Engel

Meeting called to order at 6:33.

Intro topic: What is your favorite board or card game.

Minutes: It was moved and seconded to accept minutes. Correction to typo “Tattoo” in
Farmers Market report. Accepted.

Farmers Market: Jennifer submitted report that she is continuing to field requests for new
vendors and more entertainment. Possible henna artist for August. Working on something
special for National Farmers Market week August 7th. Request from commission that we
have a map or listing of which vendors are expected to be in attendance. Sign up sheet for
CAC members to attend market. Joanne will be out of town for the August 7 market.

Business of the Year: Questionnaire was reviewed. Changes. Davorka to update logo, update
dates to 2022, change who they are to be submitted to. Delete Covid question. Reported
that we had many fewer nominations this year. Suggestions. Put sign, blanks and QR code on
the table in the lobby. Joanne to contact Howard to see if Chamber would put up information.
There was a discussion about the possibility of inviting the winner and runners up to attend a
Farmers Market. Free publicity for the Skokie business and no cost to the Village. Any
handouts approved. Joanne to contact Nick.

Media Literacy Education

George, Anil, Pouriya and Joanne attended the Media Literacy presentation at the library on
July 12. Rebroadcast of 1 ½ hour “Trust Me” with the impact producer and Renee Hobbs,
Julie Coiro and Troy Hicks from Media Education Lab (an organization working to improve
media literacy education) attended virtually as an information panel. Michael Spikes from
Northwestern University and Mariah Cherem from the Skokie Library attended in person.
Mariah has informed the CAC that they are possibly going to make the recording available.
Both George and Anil commented on how informative it was. This was sponsored by the
Consumer Affairs Commission.
The piece of the project still to be worked on is a possible website containing information on
who and how to contact to verify the veracity of what you are seeing/hearing. Michael Spikes
has agreed to help with this.

Miscellaneous

George brought up the question of whether Skokie has an involvement if two gas stations
(same brand) display different prices.

Trustee Kheoun gave us information on the Sustainable Environmental Survey for Skokie
residence. Deadline July 31.

Next meeting is August 10.

Meeting adjourned at 7:26

Joanne Haeberlin
Chair