The Revere Human Rights Commission voted to revise its working-group structure and establish three smaller, focused groups to direct the commission's projects and outreach.

Chair Sheba Hussain outlined the proposal to streamline earlier broad groups into Senior Connections, Student Involvement and Community Outreach to align projects with the commission's limited budget and volunteer capacity. Hussain said she would serve on Senior Connections alongside Vice Chair Eugene Baptiste and Commissioner Shayla Johnson; Student Involvement was provisionally assigned to Commissioner Pitch, Commissioner Albert Teche and Dr. Garcia; Community Outreach listed Hussain, Commissioner Pitch, Commissioner Johnson and Dr. Garcia as participants.

Hussain said groups could overlap membership when needed to reach a quorum and that the working-group quorum had been set informally at two people. Commissioners discussed meeting-publicity rules and open-meeting law implications: Director Morabito clarified that the commission cannot make final rulings — intake and determinations follow the director's intake and referrals — and stressed that working-group activity should follow open-meeting guidance and be posted publicly.

Hussain moved to revise the old groups into the three new groups; the motion was seconded and approved with affirmative voice responses recorded. The commission will circulate the membership list and a document describing each group's scope and first tasks before the next meeting and expects some groups to begin work in February, after a January pause.