Hope everyone had a great holiday season! Now it's time to get back to work for this last stretch of the Y&G year!
If you received an individual scholarship from the Y&G scholarship committee, you should have received from me a blank thank-you note at Bill Hearing Night. The completed thank-you note was due back to me several weeks ago. If you have not returned the note, please bring it on Thursday - or plan to stay a few minutes after the meeting to complete a new one.
(Also note: I'm including as many parent emails as I have for all bulletins from now on. Welcome, Parents!)
DEADLINES:
January 8 - Final $200 payment deadline. Please bring your payment to the Thursday meeting - then you won't need to make a special trip to the Y on Friday.
January 20 - Final NIC proposals due for NIC participants. (You should have some ideas to kick around and mock-debate at the meeting this week and next week.)
UPCOMING EVENTS:
January 7 - meetings resume - 7pm, Board Room, just like usual. Please be on-time.
January 9 - benefit comedy show. See Reminders section below.
January 10 - Antique Fair Parking lot. Please email me if you are interested in doing this. It's the last month for us to hold the event.
January 14 - Mandatory regular meeting to prepare for conference.
January 16-18 (Saturday-Monday): BOB II at Camp Roberts. Attendance at this conference is mandatory. No exceptions.
February 11-15: 62nd Model Legislature & Court - the big conference, the one you've been waiting for.
ONGOING EVENTS:
If you are on an adjusted payment schedule, I expect you to be pulling out all the stops for the end of the program year - sell coupon books, sell comedy show tickets. Make these last few weeks count and put in the effort. The final conference is a great reward!
REMINDERS/NEWS FOR THE WEEK:
1.) Meetings resume this week - see you this Thursday, January 7, at 7pm in the Board Room, just like usual. Be on time. Anyone who emails to ask if there is a meeting this week must bring me a $1 fine for failing to read his/her bulletin. ;)
2.) Get your payments in. If you're on an adjusted payment schedule, get whatever you can in, as often as you can get it in. If you're on the regular payment schedule YOU MUST BE ON-TIME WITH YOUR FINAL $200 PAYMENT THIS WEEK. Bring it to the meeting to avoid making a special trip on Friday. Or have your parents call the Y with a credit/debit card number and then you don't even need to bring a check.
3.) COMEDY SHOW: The benefit comedy show is scheduled for this Saturday, January 9. You received an email about it. Check your inbox - it's there along with all the details. I expect everyone to participate in this event either by attending, volunteering, or selling tickets. Patrick has 30 tickets with him for sale (if you're a West Campus student, talk to him to get some to sell). If you are a student elsewhere, I can get you tickets to sell, if you contact me ASAP. This is basically free money for us IF WE SELL TICKETS. If we have not sold 40 tickets by Wednesday, I will cancel the event. Let's not let that happen. Remember, YOU and your family do NOT need to buy tickets (though you're welcome to do so, of course). You can sell them to other people. Contact me if you'd like to volunteer for the show. And in case you missed it when I said it earlier, I expect everyone to participate in this event somehow, so if you don't think you'll be able to sell tickets, then I better hear that you'll be there to volunteer.
4.) A note about conference attendance: Though the final conference is held here in Sacramento and it's tempting to try to schedule other events around town between February 11-15, you are NOT PERMITTED TO LEAVE THE CONFERENCE for any reason. This includes sporting events, family events, Valentine's Day dates, or because you forgot something at home. For our purposes, you may as well pretend we're in Los Angeles, Texas, or on Mars for the duration of the conference. It might seem weird to you since it's your hometown - but that's the way it works. Period.
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