International Cultural Exchange Committee

International Cultural Exchange Committee A Subcommittee of Geneva’s Strategic Advisory Committee SPAC Geneva City Hall Conference Room (2nd floor), 22 South First Street, Geneva, IL 60134 Minutes – Wednesday, February 12, 2014  CALL TO ORDER. The meeting was called to order at 5:17 pm. Members present were Albright, Alderfer, Bald, Landberg, and Ploppert. Members absent were Cabeen, and Chalberg Pool. Cynthia announced that Sandy Kaczmarski has resigned from the board effective immediately. Thank you Sandy, for your service to ICEC. We will appoint a replacement for Sandy at the March meeting.  APPROVAL OF MINUTES – January, 2014 minutes were approved as submitted.  CROISSY VISIT Oct 11-15 – Cynthia – Please have photos to Bobbi Alderfer by the weekend of February 15th.  IDEAS to Broaden our exchange with Croissy – Cynthia – Implementation of ideas is now in progress.  WEBSITE UPDATE- It has been suggested that our membership support the I American event at the Waterstreet Studios in Batavia. This is a cross- cultural event that our members can enjoy through the month of March. The board will send out an e-mail via Mail Chimp to inform the ICEC membership.  GET-TOGETHER / FRIENDRAISER – Bobbi – Plans are in the works for an event in late April or May to gather our membership for an evening of food and fun. Bobbi will have more information at our March meeting.  ECI UPDATE – It was reported that the ECI presentation to the Geneva High School students was early this year and that the response was the best ever. Forty-one cards of interest were generated and four families are interested in hosting students from France.  SWEDISH LIAISON – Lynn has contacted the Lofgrens about possible sister cities in Sweden.  SWEDISH DAYS PARTICIPATION- Lynn has filled out the paperwork for the Sweden Vast participation. Participation was decided by consensus. Besides Skyping, it was suggested that Lynn contact Genevans of Swedish  extraction and interview/video them so that this can be looped when we are not Skyping. It was decided that we would participate on Saturday, June 21st from 10:00am – 3:00pm. It was also suggested that a video could be put together with ICEC’s latest delegation to France from October, 2013.  ICEC BANNER and LOGO – Bobbi will look into various banner styles and sizes as well as costs. Design for new handouts and banners for ICEC need to be generated by April.  BY-LAWS- Cynthia and David By-laws revisions to be presented twice, then accepted by Board vote. The first discussion will be during the March meeting; if you have revisions to add, please submit to Cynthia or David well in advance of the March meeting.  NEXT MEETING DATE- MARCH 12, WEDNESDAY AT 5:15pm  ADJOURNMENT : at 6:30 pm