Davenport City commissioners on Dec. 9 authorized the annual work‑sharing contract with the Office of Civil Rights (referred to in the meeting as ICRC) that allows the commission to receive payment when it submits cases, and they completed routine procedural business including agenda and minutes approvals.

"This is just the ICRC's new name, and it's the work sharing agreement that we, sign annually. So it's just getting approval for you to sign the contract with them so that we can, get paid when we submit cases to them," Director Lacey said while presenting the contract item.

The contract authorization was moved and seconded and approved by voice vote. Commissioners also moved to amend the Dec. 9 agenda to remove October 2025 closed‑session minutes and voted to approve the November minutes.

In the director's report earlier in the meeting, Lacey said the office had not issued any 'right to sue' letters in November and reported no conciliation settlements. She described follow‑up to a joint meeting on finance and relocation and said she had not yet received requested budget information or a commitment that the CFO would attend a future meeting to clarify budgeting questions.

Lacey also described a delay processing a personnel action for a candidate who resides outside the state and said HR suggested options including engaging an outside consultant or contracting directly; she noted that the city code assigns HR responsibility for personnel processes for boards and commissions. Lacey said staff were working with an architect to update a bid based on documentation from August related to a remodel request (identified in the transcript as coming from Resideo Max Reiner).

She reported the commission's open caseload totals: "So we have, a 174 open employment cases, 19 education, 28 public accommodations, 72 housing," and said two new referrals arrived last month. Lacey said two new staff completed onboarding and the office hopes to complete housing training once a third staff member is in place.

The commission set its next meeting for Jan. 13 at 12:00 p.m. and closed the session with brief holiday remarks.