NOTES

ATTENDANCE: Everyone but the Marco. His absence was excused.

CHAPTER DECISION: Chose to go with chapter two. The Law of Influence.

SCHOLARSHIP: We need to create a rubric for those applying for the scholarship.

GOAL A: The senate did not put us on the agenda. Hopefully next Thursday.
GOAL B: Rubric for scholarship needs to be created.

FUND RAISER DECISION:
1. Closest to pin (golf)
2. Raffle
3. ?

MEETINGS FOR GROUPS: Group B will be meeting after class on Tuesday.

ROLES:
Chair: Colter
Notes: Tom
Par: Kraig

over-achievers...

I'm going to miss school today, Thursday.
Sorry for the short notice. I've got a family commitment I can't get out of.
See you all on Tuesday. I've read Chapter 2 of the book...it gets my vote if you all agree.

Thanks again for the banner Colter.

The senate will vote on our item next week in Aptos. I've heard from Sesario and Sophia and they apologize for letting our item slip off their agenda. It still looks promising for us. Keep the faith.

marko

March 24

Group...

Unfortunately, after checking the senate's agenda we are once again NOT on it. ( AGS is on it this week). I have emailed the adviser and several key senators including Sophia who is our sponsor on this item. It will be on next week or I will know the reason why. (they meet in Watsonville this Thursday, so that would have been a pain anyway)

In our book, several group members seem to be liking Rule #2 which deals with Influence. Skye also voiced her approval of this chapter. Perhaps we could all review the chapter and brainstorm ideas about our class presentation and ideas to make the activity memorable.

Several great things are happening with Spring Fling. Committees our group members will want to be involved with.

A thousand thanks to Colter who created the best frickin banner the class has ever seen. Other groups are visibly bitter.

See everyone on Thursday.

Marko

Update Goal 1, Group A

Group:

Many thanks to Rafa for helping me at the senate meeting and to Colter and others who sat through a very boring meeting waiting to get to our issue. (the senate voted twice on whether to open or close the windows...I'm not kidding)

Amazingly enough, it looks like they are going to go for it. The vote is this Thursday at 3pm!! Please plan to attend.

Thanks to Colter for taking on the poster project.

I hope you all received the xerox of the 21 laws...(book index) we want to pick one law to use for our class demo. We will vote on this on Thursday, if you don't have the list contact me. I should have at least 3 copies of the book this week for you guys to read and look through.

A real Communications Club would be an interesting goal for our group. I think there is interest on campus for a club of this kind. Of course, many of us would love to see it happen...the question is if any of us really have the time to commit long-term to an undertaking this big.

Have a great weekend everyone!

marko

Agenda: Thursday March 12, 2009

Chair: Haley
Notes: Gary
Par: Colter

1. Attendance
a. Should we make this one of our roles?

2. Update on leadership book

3. Progress on Goals A/B
a. reminder: Student Senate mtg. at 3pm SAC East (255?)

4. Schedule additional/external meetings if necessary

5. Next week's roles

6. Poster

Midtown near the beach?

Group B,
I heard from Yarrow last night that she won't be able to make it today. I, however, am still planning on meeting up. There is a mission I need to pull off near Seabright beach (involving huge cypress trees, climbing equipment, and a $500 motorized plane), so anywhere near there would be cool. It looks like it won't rain so we could meet outside unless its too cold. Otherwise there is Taqueria Cancun, right next to Day's market, which is always practically empty (they have way more room than they need for customers) so we could order some chips and get to business... Let me know by phone if you can.

-Rafa (831)-239-2115

Group B Meeting Location for 3/8/09 @ 2pm

Hey Group B,

Where do you want to meet today?
I've only heard back from Yarrow.
Call me and let me know if we are still planning on meeting up.
(831) 332-5101

-Tom

Goal Group A

Group,

I received this email from our sponsoring senator:

Hi Marko,

Of course! I'll try and get it early on the agenda and will send you a note to confirm asap.

Hope all is well,

Sophia

In addition, I heard from the secretary, Anthony, who confirms he will try to place it early on the agenda. (which is better when trying to squeeze money)

I will work on a quick fact sheet, which we should copy and distribute to the senate on Thursday.
(app. 25 copies).

If Group A is still meeting on Sunday remember daylight savings time...1 hour ahead. So Sunday at 9 am is really Sunday at 8am...(ugh). I've ordered 3 or 4 copies of our leadership book already--they are getting gobbled up and Amazon has some freaky thing when you try to order multiple copies of the same book (they think you are making a mistake).

Whoever is chairing the meeting next week, please add book discussion to the agenda.

I'm honored also to be in this highly motivated group! Great work with the logo and chairing the meeting Rafa!! When will our first fundraiser be???

best,

Marko

Student Senate Meeting

Groupies,

I spoke during Public comments at the Senate meeting today. I also gave out pens and bookmarks. Senator Sophia Forde will sponsor our item and it will be on next week's agenda for $1500.

I will prepare a handout that we can give to the senate addressing major selling points.

I will touch bases with Anthony (secretary) and Sophia to make sure we are on the agenda.

I need Skye and all our group members to get as many people as possible to commit to coming to the senate meeting next week Thursday at 3pm in SAC East. Even if they can only stay through public comments it would be very helpful. 10 minutes of their time could help us accomplish our goal here. Lots of people are coming knocking for money right now, so hopefully they are feeling generous. I made a strong case for it, so I feel we have a good shot at this.

(Can we find one or two of the old posters from last year? They were super cool and would be a good visual. Can we get someone who participated last year to come and comment? Someone ethnic would be ideal, not to put too fine a point on it.)

Talk to you all soon.

Marko

Group B Meeting Location

Whats up Group B?

Hey. Im cool with meeting up pretty much anywhere this Sunday at 2pm for our group meeting. My only request is that we don't meet in downtown Santa Cruz because I will most likely have my saxophone with me, and I don't feel comfortable leaving that in my car in downtown Santa Cruz.

Good Times,

-Tom

Attendance: All accounted for
Chair: Rafa
Par: Haley
Timer: Kraig

Problems: Everyone talks at the same time, nothing is getting communicated.
Raising hands, Chair calls on people, going around the table.
Leader ship book: Wisdom of Crowds; Already being used to teach the class, difficult to teach out own lesson. Which ever is cheaper. The 21 irrefutable rules of leadership. amazon.com
Have one person to order all of them. Pay Marco.
Charter the rules: Everyone is fine with it and the new logo.
Next week rules: Chair: Haley Notes/timer: Gary Par: Colter
Progress report: Group A, meet with Skye, and get people to attend the senate meeting.
In room Sac East, asking them for money for the spring fling. Have communication students show up.
Tax ID #: needs a document written up explaining who we are. Create comm 2 club.


Skye Interview: past money for spring fling was $2500, now it is $0, ask for $500 and raise $1000 for sholerships. Selling it, diversity, we invite students from all campuses, honoring them with scholarships. May 6th, 6-7:30 main theater. IF given money we'll say supported by the Senate....
Theater is $160 + $80 Piano moving, Attendance as 400 students (no cost to students). Comm awards, 86 last year, scholarships 2 (this year). Spring fling has gone on for the past 3 years.

Fun raising: Golf tournaments, softball game, rummage sale, donations, at least one On-campus fund raiser.

Out of class meetings: Sunday, Group B at 2pm in SC, Group A at 9am.

Summary

Chair: Rafa
Timer: Yarrow
Parliamentarian: Haley
Advanced Technology Expert/Computer Technician: Colter (Blog Updater)

1. Take Attendance/Initiate Roles.
2. Decide on leadership book.
3. Examine/Edit Group Charter/Rules
4. Assign next weeks roles.
5. Briefly review/comment on last weeks discussion.
6. Report Progress on Goal A/B
7. Continue brainstorming ideas for Goal A/B.
8. Schedule a out-of-class meeting(s) and/or mission(s) for our group
(5 MINUTES BEFORE END OF MEETING)



sorry for the late post.

03/05/09 Metting summary

Hey guys,
I will have the meeting layout ready for our class tommorow. Sorry I haven't posted it yet. I may post it later tonight but so far our groups goals are just starting out so I don't beleive it is extremely necessary to post a full meeting summary 24 hrs. before.

As for preparation, please just continue with brainstorming ideas and write any down that you might forget. Thanks.

-Rafa

Mission Statement

Our group is a thriving, dedicated bunch of young people working toward accomplishing our goals while developing better communication skills. Reaching out to the community is our passion! We feel that the only way we can accomplish this is by using good organizational skills and time management, achieving true group synergy, and most of all by continuing to respect each other.

Fundraising

As far as fundraising ideas Gary and I were thinking of doing a closest to pin at the golf courses we are affiliated with. Since we belong to different courses we could possibly have one at both courses. This is a goog way to get money.