2019-20 El Dorado Youth and Government Delegation Bulletin #16

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”  – Oscar Wilde

Welcome back El Dorado and to 2020! On behalf of our advising team and myself, we hope all of you had a great holiday season and a happy new year. This year is already off to a swift start. We only have 4 more meetings left this year (yes 4!). Amazing how time flies. I am so excited to see the hard work you have dedicated to this program begin to bear fruit at our remaining two conferences. Let's buckle down and have a great beginning of 2020!

1.) Final Meeting Schedule: Our normal meetings will resume this week on January 9 and then we will have our mandatory pre-con meeting on Jan 16th. Below is a list of the remaining meetings for the year. Mark your calendars!:

• Jan 9 - Regular Meeting
• Jan 16 - MANDATORY Pre-Con Meeting
• Jan 18-20 - Training and Elections 2 Conference
• Jan 23 - Regular Meeting
• Jan 30 - El Dorado Delegation Officer Primary
• Feb 6 - MANDATORY Sacramento Pre-Conference Meeting
• Feb 13-17 - Sacramento Model Legislature and Court Conference
• Feb 23 - End of the Year Celebration Banquet

2.) Crab Feed Volunteers Needed: Eldo needs a YMCA/School volunteer event for DoD. Here's an event that would help with that and give you that warm and fuzzy volunteer feeling! The Y is partnering with Rotary for its annual Crab Feed and volunteers are needed during the day to set up (2 shifts available) and to work the event in the evening. We need about 15 people per shift. Please sign-up here: http://bit.ly/crabfeedvol

3.) Pre-Conference Prep: Some folk have stuff to do before T&E 2. If you are in the DOF, NIC, program areas, please note the items below:

• NIC: Draft NIC proposals due at T&E 2. Read this NIC proposal guide and bring some ideas to this week's meeting to crowd source research paths or to fine tune ideas. You can also check out last year's NIC proposal book for reference. Creativity and novel ideas are rewarded in this program area, so avoid the topics listed in the guide and forge your own! You will also need to bring 20, yes 20, printed copies of your draft proposal to T&E 2. 
• DoF: Draft Dept of Finance proposals due at T&E 2. You will have the chance to work on your proposal at T&E 2 for further refinement. Final proposals are due in Reggo on Jan 30. 

4.) Lunch Order - T&E 2: Everyone attending T&E 2 conference must fill out the survey link below for lunch coming home on Monday. Even if you are not planning on getting a Subway sandwich for lunch, please indicate that by selecting the "no lunch for me" option. We want to make sure everyone 1) knows they need to have lunch for themselves on Monday and 2) has the opportunity to buy lunch. http://bit.ly/capcolunch72

Parent Corner:

• Final payments for the year were due by December 13. If you have any question about the remaining balance due, please contact Christiana or Dylan. 

• Conference Attendance: We have two remaining conferences this year. Please review our conference attendance policy:
• For T&E II (Jan 18-20): Partial attendance is not permitted except in extraordinary circumstances. Regular season sport events, meets, regular season academic club meets, finals, school projects, etc, are not extraordinary circumstances. You are expected to travel to the conference with the delegation, attend the entire conference, and travel home again with the delegation.

• For Sac Conference, (Feb 13-17): Partial attendance is not permitted. Though we happen to be the home team, pretend the conference is located in SoCal, Texas, or the dark side of the moon. No ins-and-outs. Regular season sports, other local extracurriculars, exams, etc, are not valid reasons to miss conference. 

As always, thank you for reading and I will see you on Thursday!

Derek Dolfie

Lead Advisor/Delegation Dad

El Dorado Delegation

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Mark your calendars for these key events!

Jan 16 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting

Jan 18-20 -Training and Elections 2 Conference (Fresno)
February 6 - Mandatory Sacramento Pre-Conference Meeting

February 13-17 -72nd Model Legislature & Court (Sacramento)

February 23 - Celebration Banquet (Sacramento Central YMCA)