International Cultural Exchange Committee

International Cultural Exchange Committee A Subcommittee of Geneva’s Strategic Advisory Committee SPAC Geneva City Hall Confer15ence Room (2nd floor), 22 South First Street, Geneva, IL 60134 Minutes: Wednesday, January 8, 2014  CALL TO ORDER. The meeting was called to order at 5:15pm Members present were Albright, Bald, Cabeen, Chalberg Pool, Landberg. Absent were Alderfer, Kaczmarski, and Ploppert  APPROVAL OF MINUTES – December, 2013 minutes were approved as amended. Bald moved, Cabeen seconded.  TREASURER’S REPORT –Angela- accounts update – $1686.91 in the account after payment to Matt Lay.  CROISSY VISIT Oct 11-15 – Cynthia Angela and Pam have dropped pictures into Drop Box. Sandy suggested Picasa as a photo site that could work to share photos with our members – perhaps something Google.  IDEAS to Broaden our exchange with Croissy – Cynthia Youth initiatives and ideas were discussed. David suggested some ideas to link Croissy, France to Geneva by working with the Geneva Public Library. Lectures and study groups as well as Book Discussion groups. Brown Bags and Books and a possible program at the Geneva History Museum were discussed. Looking forward to a picnic or cook-out with exchange students this summer.  WEBSITE UPDATE- Student records – Middle school student blog City now has an employee to update agendas and committees – sub committees will have a spot there and pages on the city websites. Kevin Stahr is the new contact. Stephanie Dawkins will let us know when they are ready to work with us.  GET-TOGETHER– Bobbi  We are waiting to hear from Penrose Brewing and Gracious Hall. The Cultural Arts Dinner will be drawing many of the same people during the same Feb/March time frame. A photo exhibit as part of the get together was discussed, requesting best photos from our members who have visited Croissy. Brian DeWolf suggested banner or montage that could be part of sharing with the library, at the get together, GHC, etc. would be nice to have soon.  GHS – Pam will message with Marissa Parker of ECI and stress that it is imperative to make contact with Geneva families to plug in Croissy students. Host families with students are preferred. Can the dates be set ahead of time so we can get the publicity out for families to sign-up. It would be nice if we could include families from Geneva who have students attending other schools.  SWEDISH LIAISON – Lynn- Swedish Days will begin working with contacts in Sweden early this year. The German teacher at GHS was wondering if we would be amenable to working toward a cultural exchange partner with German families.  ICEC BANNER and LOGO- Lynn and Sandy- new logo design; banner; design for new handouts for ICEC. By next meeting, February 12th, Sandy and Lynn need to get together and have ideas for logo, etc. ready to look at. Info should not be dated and the need to think of publicity such as the Geneva Chamber and GPLD (library) use. (bookmark, etc.)  BY-LAWS- Cynthia / handout - City of Geneva required 2014 dates; advised ICEC permanent meeting date 2nd Wednesday. Change in by-laws is not required, but we will consider a change this spring. Cynthia and David will look over by-laws and suggest changes to come into compliance – modify/simplify, etc. We do not need to change the by-laws to accommodate our change in meeting dates for 2014.  NEXT MEETING DATE- FEBRUARY 12, WEDNESDAY AT 5:15pm  ADJOURNMENT at 6:12pm. Respectively submitted, Lynn S. Landberg