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- Team Conference Call
- Monday, May 18, 2009
- 6pm EST
Present: Josue Guillen (May First), Sylvia Orduño (MWRO); Rocio Valerio (EMEAC), Elena Herrada (Centro Obrero) Cindy Wiesner (GGJA).
Absent: William Copeland (LOC Staff), Tom Goldtooth (IEN).
Facilitator: Josue Guillen; Notes: Sylvia Orduño
Check in for 5/25 conf call:
- Status of Save the Date Announcement (CommWG [Sylvia] and Outreach WG [Cindy])
- IC Contracts (Sylvia)
- Contacting Working Group point-persons: International, Language Access, Outreach, Logistics
- Draft of Communications Staff hire info (Rocio and Diana)
- AGENDA
- Check In
- Review of Coordination Team “Action Items”
- done: add folks to email list for RM WG
- C-Team passing around working document for announcing USSF
- Josue will send after this meeting: notes from San Antonio PMA
- Victor sent template for Will and Maureen template on contracts
- Will?: contact Stephanie?
- Josue contacted Danielle re: language access; Sylvia needs to contact Carmen and Ricardo.
- Michael contacted Sarita and Tammy re: outreach WG;
- Sylvia will do WG list follow up
- Diana and Rocio draft Communications Staff hire info, ready by end of Wed
- Josue sent request to Stephanie for $ request: Sponsor AMC
- Rocio sent out meeting wizard announcement
- Updates from Detroit and National
- Anchors met: staffing--still need bookkeeper, sort-term USSF needs including office up and running; communications and tech staffing open call; calendar of events for outreach; met with LOC; 6/11 next Potluck
- Notice went out to all for LOC mtg next week--organizing meeting; get all committees running by next week
- Recommend: discuss tech hire need in Tech WG; list job description needs. Tech WG has not discussed Tech hire with LOC/Anchors. Share info with Tech WG from Anchors previous discussions.
- Because of Detroit incredible political instability, Elena raises concern of existence of Cobo Hall a year from now--we should consider a back up plan; things in Detroit are unpredictable. We should be prepared for Cobo and Hart Plaza to not honor our contracts, e.g. Detroit could end up in receivership. Recommend: local and national committee to investigate in the case that we have to explore other options.
- Working Groups Update
- NPC Call
- did not send out regular reminders - week out, day before, morning of
we will send reminder tonight and tomorrow late morning
- Draft Agenda for NPC conf call
- RM, budget report
- Dates for next F-2-F Mtg (Josue)
- Working Group updates (Sylvia)
- Detroit report back (Rocio)
- IC report (Cindy)
- Staffing
- Inactive members calls follow-up (George)
- MWSF report
- USSF email announcement from C-Team with Outreach and Comm WGs
- Josue: facilitator; email agenda and conf call # to NPC: Sylvia
- Get better conf call number?
- Next NPC Face-to-face meeting
- More available so far for July 7/24-25, Michael and Cindy have GGJA mtg at same time. Interalliance Dialogue Process on same dates--Tammy, Tom, Sarita also may not be available.
- Cindy wondering if we can open up weekday mtg dates following AMC for NPC mtg because of 7/24-25 conflict and to support AMC. Anchors said really hard to meet during week, especially 7/20-22. So far most people unavailable in June. We'll need to try and be flexible, may occasionally need to meet on weekdays over the next year.
- C-Team trying to troubleshoot dates so most able to participate as possible. :Dates should make sure we include anchors, NPC, and support AMC, if possible. :August also a possibility. Also, start half day on final AMC date, then Mon-Tues.
- Proposal: Add to Mtg Wizard Sun-Tues, 7/19-21; plus Aug weekend
- Looks like weekdays still no good for LOC or anchors. Suggest:
- 7/3-5: flights may cost more--don't add
- 7/31-8/2
- 8/14-16
- Sylvia: talk with M&M re: dates following AMC for NPC mtg; Elena check with :Bill Bryce; Rocio check with Diana.
- add discussion about remaining on NPC conf call, important monthly mtg; anchors are part of NPC.
- Sylvia check with Jenny/AMC re: Sunday schedule, ok with NPC to start mtg after 3pm, cool?
- IC Report
- Later: cell phone minutes, skype? accountability?