City Hall
City of La Crosse, Wisconsin
400 La Crosse Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
Meeting Minutes
Human Rights Commission
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
5:15 PM
Eagle Room
Call to Order
Bakalars called the meeting to order at 5:17 PM.
Roll Call
4 - A Xiong, Gretchen Guinn Paquette, Claire Bakalars,Rosanne Northwood
1 - Marissa Sutherland
Present:
Excused:
Approval of Minutes
Paquette motioned to approve the minutes, Northwood seconded. The motion
carried by a voice vote.
Agenda Items:
Chair and Vice Chairperson Elections
1
New member, Councilmember Rosanne Northwood, introduced herself.
Northwood declined to be chairperson, but accepted the vice chairperson
position.
Northwood nominated Bakalars for chairperson, Paquette seconded. There
were no other nominations and Bakalars was approved by acclamation.
Discrimination Complaint - Gale Hendersen v. Aptiv
2
Henderson shared documents; she did not document money that she received.
Paquette asked if there was any audit on the company. Henderson said she was
accused of faking it. Henderson said the date of the most recent occurrence was
Easter (April 20, 2025), so within the 180-day window. Bakalars asked about
clarification about misused funds. Tyler Stapleton represented APTIV. He provided
bank and representative payee service statements. They have to report to the Social
Security Administration (SSA). He shared manuals laying out Social Security
payments. This is the first accusation of misuse of funds in Stapleton's 5 and 1/2
years with APTIV. SSA granted Henderson's request to be her own representative
payee. Northwood asked about what Henderson meant when she checked "proof of
income" in the discrimination complaint. Paquette asked about employee Henderson
worked directly with. Henderson claims APTIV did not deposit her disability payments,
and she hasn't paid her cable bill.