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Idaho Falls Sister City Youth Approved Meeting-Minutes This meeting was conducted using the platform Zoom ​June 3, 2020 Attendees Nicholas Cebull Melinda Cebull Charlotte Combs Laura Combs David Eaton Katie Eaton Kylie Eaton Abby Gallegos Aiden Gallegos Samual Hawker Lori Ann Kidwell Charlie Medema Mike Medema Max Medema Heather Medema Jorge Padron Nathan Peck Kendra Peck Anna St. Michel Whitney St. Michel Carter Thompson Rebecca Smith Stephanie Van Ausdeln Approval of minutes ​Kendra motioned to approve the May 18, 2020 meeting minutes. It was seconded by Lori Kidwell. No objections. Treasurer’s Report ​As of June 3, 2020​ ​there is $15,323.06 in the checking account. Video of Favorite Idaho Falls Places A request for a volunteer is needed to put pictures of favorite places in Idaho Falls in a video to background music. The video will be sent to students in Tokai-Mura. Abby Gallegos volunteered. For Your Information The June 15th meeting will be through Zoom. David will check with the Idaho Falls Public Library to find out if group meetings can be held in July. Whenever they can be held, the group will be allowed to vote as to whether they wish to start coming together again for meetings. Reminder The next meeting is on June 15, 2020 at 7:00. Please put the June 15th meeting on your calendar. A reminder email notice will be sent out before the meeting. Since Jorge has made his Zoom account available to us, the same Zoom link is good for all meetings. Fundraiser Garage Sale ​The garage sale which was scheduled for Saturday June 6th is cancelled. Fundraisers ​Cherry Blossom Raffle Whitney St. Michel will send an email to families of the group asking if each member would ​look at the draft website for the raffle and send in any suggestions. The website shows the 16 baskets she currently has ready for the raffle. Once the website is complete a person will purchase the number of tickets they want and then put down how many tickets they want to put in the drawing box for each basket. She is going to make some revisions to the website. Whitney is still waiting to hear back from the city, so the credit card processing isn't set up yet. Whitney expects to have the auction go live on Friday. ​ As a reminder from previous meetings, we want to send Thank you notes to the people/companies that donated the auction prizes with an explanation of what happened to our original plans for the Cherry Blossom Festival and what we were doing now, with a link to the auction site. We will need a volunteer to design a Cherry Blossom card that we can put this message into. I assume we will have to mail the thank you cards. So we will need a list of donors and mailing addresses. ​ Student Activity For Your Information Kendra Peck stated that the area around Tokai Mura had an earthquake. She asked if individuals in our group would check in with people they know in Tokai Mura. Student Presentation Anna St. Michel gave a presentation on Japan’s Education System. To view click the link below: Japan's Education System Presentation for June 15th meeting Charlie volunteered to do a project to share for the June 15th meeting. Meeting Adjourned Kendra Peck motioned to adjourn the meeting. It was seconded by Stephanie VanAusdeln.