Sister Cities

Idaho Falls Sister Cities Youth Meeting December 6, 2017 Attendees: Cameron Archer Tate Corbridge Victoria Estrada Jorge Padron Ian St. Michel David Archer Garrett Corbridge Karen Finnigan Kendra Peck Anna St.Michel Max Benjamin Brennan Corbridge Ian Finnigan Dallin Peck Jackie Sugai Misty Benjamin David Eaton Bernard Finnigan Laurie Retallic Stephanie Van Ausdeln Melinda Cebull Kylie Eaton David Matranga Jacobi Retallic Ness Villasenor Peter Cebull Katie Eaton Teddy Matranga Rebecca Smith Nicholas Cebull Mario Estrada Gabe Padron Whitney St. Michel Business Section of the Meeting *Action items are in red. Minutes: The November 15th meeting minutes were provided to the group by email. Laurie motioned to approve the meeting minutes and Teddy seconded his motion. Treasurer’s Report: Membership fees are due by January. Fees are $25 for one student and $35 for multiple students in the same family. Please bring your payment to the next meeting. The previous balance was $7602.54. The current balance is $7638.23. Expenses were $100.00 in seed money for the Paramount fundraiser. Income was $135 in dues and $0.69 in dividends. Paramount Fundraiser: The discount card sales before Thanksgiving did not do as well as hoped. There was a Black Friday sale on one of the dates so we cancelled sales for 11/24 after the first session. We have scheduled additional sales for 12/22 and 12/23. The following people have signed up to help with sales. Friday 12/22 (times may be adjusted after the movie schedule is out) 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Whitney St. Michel Ian St. Michel Anna St. Michel 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Laurie Retallic Cameron Archer Gabe Padron 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Kendra Peck Dallin Peck Nathan Peck 6:30 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Matranga David Matranga 8:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. Saturday 12/23 (times may be adjusted after the movie schedule is out) 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Laurie Retallic 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Misty Benjamin Ness Villasenor Max Benjamin 3:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. David Eaton Kylie Eaton 6:30 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Melinda Cebull Nicholas Cebull 8:15 p.m. – 9:45 p.m. If you would like to help, please contact Melinda 208-529-6685 or mcebull@cableone.net. Winter Carnival Fundraiser: The rest of the meeting was spent planning our ice skating fundraiser on January 30th from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The ice skating sessions will be from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. and the cost will be $5 per person or $25 per family for a single session or $7 per person or $35 a family for both sessions. We will us wrist bands to tell who has paid for which session. Melinda will donate the wrist bands. Costume Contest: After much discussion and a student vote, the group decided not to have a costume contest. Advertising: Ness provided a poster for the group to use for advertising. She will take out the costume contest, modify the session times, and add a note stating that funds will be used for the Sister Cities groups. Ness will update the poster and David Archer or David Eaton will get the poster to the city. Misty and David Eaton decided on the number of poster to print. They will ask the city to print 20 smaller posters and 10 large posters. A pdf file of the poster will be sent to the group. Melinda will put up a Facebook event with information from Misty. Music Mix: Ness will get mix of popular Japanese and American music to use during the skating. David Archer will check with the city about the music format. Games: The group decided to have a four or five games/activities and not charge for games. Some of the activities will have a Japanese theme. Teddy volunteered her older daughters to help with origami. Kendra asked anyone with game ideas to get them to her. Food: Whitney volunteered to coordinate food. The group will keep it simple and members volunteered to donate food and bring necessary items for warming food and water. Whitney will send out a list of items she needs and items people have agreed to bring. iPad Raffle: The group decided on a raffle ticket price of 1 for $5 and 5 for $20. Melinda will get tickets and bring them to anyone who wants to sell the tickets in advance. Volunteers: Whitney will get more information from the leads and send out a list of areas where she need volunteers. She would like to have everyone help with set-up and clean-up if possible. Decorations: David Eaton will talk with Ed about getting Koi to use to decorate the ice rink. David Archer will check with the city about decorating the rink. David will also ask about the possibility of using the laser light show. Motion to adjourn was made by Victoria and seconded by Rebecca.