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June 12, 2011
Four attendees; No quorum of 7 (as later discovered in Bylaws)
President - Deidre Mears Vice President - Gloria Camacho-McKenzie Treasurer - Barbara Stoneman-Herman (absentee) Secretary - Michelle Lerman Past President etal. - Francisco Vargas
Brainstorm events to attract new members: Mixer @ AzLa (Arizona Library Assn.) conference Tucson November 28-30, 2011 2011 Reformista & Knowledge River reunion Renew contact with organizations that got a Storytime CD in 2009 RNC IV -- 2 present will attend; chapter donates $50 to Pura Belpre / RNC IV fundraiser New South Mountain Community College Library prepares for grand opening (Sept. 24?) Website -- new pages, links and chapter logo; officers will rotate update tasks
No meetings....
August 21, 2010 AZ Reforma mixer
Tucson Chapter hosted this year's annual dinner & joint meeting Four CentralAZ regulars attended -- President Shannon Gemberling, VP Deidre Mears, Michelle Lerman, and Francisco Vargas Great discussion about chapters collaborating to attract new members, organize events beyond cities, partner with other community groups. Minutes attached below.
August 26, 2009 ?
July 15, 2009 - Borders Books & Music in Mesa, AZ - attendees: Deirdre Mears, Michelle Lerman, Shannon Gemberlng, Gloria Camacho-McKenzie, Jenny Vargas
Called to order at 7:56 p.m. I. Introductions II. Treasurer Report - Gloria reported that we have $477.33 in the account. III. Vision for the year
IV. Next meeting will be 8/26 at 7:30 pm in Tempe
Feburary? January 23, 2009 - attendees: Kristl Chavez, Gloria Camacho-McKenzie, Fransisco Vargas, Shannon Gemberling
Feb. 11th meeting time has been changed to 4:30 instead of 3 pm. It will be at one of the Scottsdale Public Libraries.
Feb, 21st is the AZ REFORMA mixer, 5 pm at The Spaghetti Factory.
Gloria reports that we have $1009.00 in the account.
Dia Kits: we will make a database of sites that have requested kits, or will use them Like Creciendo Unidos
CDs will have about 7 songs on them, please submit 2 favorite songs that we can record for the CD
ALL links we reference in the kits will be links to our website so the links will remain updated
Shannon is going to purchase the domain name for the website: centralazreforma.com (if available)
We should have all the kits to the sites by April 15th
Frank will send out letters to sites ASAP explaining kits and requesting that they reply if they would be interested in committing to the project We will do 50 kits now, and gauge how many more we need for later Books - Shannon and Kristl will purchase bilingual books at Gardeners and Phoenix Book Company REFORMA sticker or stamp will go on each kit, book, CD, etc. Who will be in charge of having these made?
We can include Dora the Explorer bookmarks in Kits (left over from last year's Dia) December 3, 2008
Meeting was held at the Peoria Public Library...(minutes to come).
October 8, 2008
Meeting on Oct. 15, location change to the ASU library downtown.
Speaker from Creciendo Unidos will be attending our December meeting. Are there other locals who would make good speakers?
Salvador Reza, other, activists...
Fund raising ideas? Will brainstorm at next weeks meeting. REFORMA calendar?
AZLA - beginning of December, we will decide on a date an meeting time for dinner with Tucson chapter. Will be in Glendale.
New Google wiki - we need to migrate all info/pics from old website to new one.
List of places we can distribute Dia Kits. Make spreadsheet to add contact info. Goal: 100 kits
Dia Kits are intended to initiate a bilingual storytime (to coincide with Dia, week of April 30)
Inside the kits: DVD of us performing storytimes so that caregivers know how story time is set up, how the songs sound, etc.
CD of songs, fingerplays, booklists (on bookmark), evaluation sheet for initial program (postcard form) postage included bilingual books, coupons (Starbucks, incentive for filling out evals and reporting figures), finger puppets
Containers (from Office Max?) or recycled containers? ??Flash drives (with video, song lyrics, fingerplays, coloring pages, art/craft activities, booklists, etc.) Sign up for ALSC to be a "super site" in order to get free Dia materials.
Maybe set up a way for sites to register on our website and report participation figures.
Have Reforma stickers made (vistaprint.com) and new business cards
Recruit new members
September 5, 2008
The next officers meeting will be on October 8th, 6:30 pm @ Le Grande Orange. Phoenix, AZ
There will be a meeting for ALL on October 15th from 3 - 5 pm @ Desert Sage Library.
Reforma Kits will contain storytime materials for which teachers and caregivers from preschools, daycares, church groups, PAC sites, and public schools
may conduct bilingual storytimes for children. Materials include postcards with fingerplays and Reforma information, recommended booklists, age appropriate books,
and some other story-enhancing items.
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