Sister Cities

November 18, 2019 Idaho Falls Sister City Youth Approved Meeting-Minutes Attendees: Max Medema Charlie Medema Heather Medema Mike Medema Charlotte Combs Laura Combs Jackie Sugai Jackson Corbridge Tate Corbridge Gabe Padron Nicholas Cebull Peter Cebull Chad Mahoney Aurora Mahoney McKenzie McIsaac Edward McIsaac Kendra Peck Nathan Peck Abby Gallegos Izabel Kelley Stephanie VanAusdeln Jo Gallegos Robert Gallegos Aiden Gallegos Maggie Boring Wendy Boring Jorge Padron Carter Thompson Jenniferr Thompson Tim Thompson Anna St. Michel Kylie Eaton Samatha Gohl Rylee Young Gabe Perkins Patrick Perkins Molly Perkins Michelle Perkins David Eaton Katie Eaton Whitney St. Michel ​Membership: ​All applications need to be updated and signed by guardian. ​Membership dues for the 2019/2020 year in the amount of $25.00 for individual membership and $35.00 for families with two or more students in IFSCY. ​ Membership will become delinquent as of January 1 if dues are not paid. (Article II Section 1 of Bylaws) Application form received for Gabe and Patrick Perkins. Membership Dues received for Gabe and Patrick Perkins check number 581 for $35.00). Membership dues received for Tate Corbridge, Jackson Corbridge, Brennan Corbridge ($40.00 cash). Approval of minutes: ​Chad Mahoney motioned to approve the November 6, 2019 meeting minutes and the motion was seconded by Peter Cebull Voted and unanimously approved. Treasurer’s Report: ​Treasurer Report is scheduled for the next meeting. Lori Kidwell, Treasurer was absent this evening. Point System Information: See “IFSCY Bylaws” David Eaton reviewed the eligibility requirements (point system). According to Article VII Section 5 to receive an invitation to participate in the exchange withTokai-Mura students must meet the following participation criteria: The top 15 students in priority points will be invited to participate in the exchange. Priority points are defined as 1: the total of the participation points earned directly by the student, 2) points earned by parents (or those acting in parental capacity) assigned to the specific student (parents have the choice of splitting their points equally among their students or assigning all of their points to one specific student in their family). Must have attended at least 50% of meetings and activities of the Idaho Falls Sister Cities Youth Program in the 16 month period prior to the invitations being sent (September 1 of even numbered year to December 31 of the odd numbered year (just prior to the invitations being issued). Students who join after September 1 of even-numbered years will have this requirement evaluated based upon the time period from their date of member to December 31 of the odd numbered year. Parents points go to their student or students. If parents have two or more students their points can be divided up equally amongst their children or all of their points can be given to one of their students. Points are deducted from any student who has previously been to Tokai-Muri, Japan. Points are added if a student has declined a prior invitation to Tokai-Muri, Japan. If this is a students last chance to go to Tokai-Muri, Japan points are added. Students must be in good standing with the Idaho Falls Sister Cities Youth Program and in compliance with the Code of Conduct. The student and their family must have participated in the hosting of the delegations from Tokai-Mura during the previous odd-numbered year. The IFSCY Board Members will send out the invitations in late January or early February. Any student who receives an invitation needs to respond “yes they are going” or “no they are not going”. Jo Gallegos asked about students who participated but are not active (specifically Charlotte Sun, their exchange student). Where do their points go? Fundraisers: JACL Bento Box Donation A check in the amount of $200.00 will be sent to the Idaho Falls Sister City Youth Group for helping them out with the Bento Boxes. . Winter Carnival The date for the IFSCY Winter Carnival is December 28, 2019. Set up begins at 12:30. Doors open at 1:00. Clean up begins at 6:45. The first shift for students and adults will begin at 12:30 and ends at 3:45. The second shift for students and adults begins at 3:45 and ends at 7:00. Sign up sheet for Winter Carnival volunteers went around as well as a sign up sheet for food donations (water, hot dogs, hamburgers, etc). Whitney got permission from the school districts to place the posters in the schools. Student Exchange Information: ​Whitney St. Michel sent a note to Tokai-Muri Sister City and asked for potential dates for the exchange. Haruka will get the dates as soon as she can. Donations from Sydel’s ​Sydel’s have donated items to the Youth group. The Youth Group will meet on December 7 at 11:00 to 1:00 to help David Eaton take pictures of items, price items and place them on the internet.. David Eaton will call to schedule this meeting at the public library. Skyping Kendra email the Tokai-Muri Sister City Group and asked if we could Skype with them sometime during the month of December. They said Skyping need to be in January or February. Reminder: The next meeting for Idaho Falls Sister City Youth is scheduled for December 4, at 7:00 pm at the Idaho Falls Public Library. December 7th is a meeting to price items donated by Sydels’ and December 28 is the Winter Carnival. Please put the dates on your calendar. Student Activity: ​Meeting minutes for 11-18-2019 ​ Izzy Kelley and Abby G had a lesson about Japanese hand gestures, and what they did was they started with a slide show to teach everyone all of the hand gestures, and then once they were done with this, they did a Kahoot with all of the signals, and people had to put in the correct answers for what the correct interpretation was. Just some things that you should and shouldn't do. Next meeting, we will have Aurora teach a lesson next meeting. Meeting Adjourned: Gabe Padron motioned to adjourn meeting. It was seconded by Abby Gallegos.