At the next meeting: Debates, Program Area Prep, and More!
What's due: Nuthin'
Now overdue: Payment #4
1.) Meetings Return This Week. See you this Wednesday, January 9, for our first meeting of 2020! There are just a handful of meetings left this year so make sure you're there.
2.) January Parking Lot Fundraiser: Thank you to Connor, Jimmy, Miraya, James, Elena, and Kathina for signing up for the January 12 Parking Lot Fundraiser. If you're planning to come but aren't on that list, let me know. We could use a few more people.
The fundraiser is Sunday, January 12 at the YMCA (2021 W Street) from 6:45-11:00am. More details at this week's meeting.
3.) Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting, Wed. Jan 15: Make extra sure you're there.
4.) Pre-Conference Prep. Some folk have stuff to do before T&EII. This year, since we don't have folks in LegAn or DOF, here's info for our NIC delegate Kathina!
- Draft NIC proposal due at T&EII. 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!
5.) Candidates and Leadership Applicants/Applied Program Area Applicants:
- If you are running for elected office, make sure you have reviewed the campaign rules and that you are tracking any campaign expenditures. You MUST bring to conference check-in a completed campaign finance disclosure form to be signed by your lead advisor even if you incurred no campaign expenses! Every candidate must submit a form upon arrival to Fresno, even if it's blank!
- If you have applied for appointed leadership, make sure that you read your email regularly between now and the conference and review the conference schedule when it is released next week to check your interview times and locations.
- That includes applicants for program areas such as Supreme Court and CET and special programs like NJC and CONA, etc.
REMINDERS
Meeting Schedule: Grab your calendars and make sure you have these important dates noted:
- January 9 - Regular meetings resume
- January 15 - Mandatory pre-conference meeting
- January 18-20 - Training & Elections Conference II (Fresno)
- January 22 - Regular meeting
- January 29 - Regular meeting
- February 5 - Mandatory pre-conference meeting for ALL delegates and a family member (new and returning).
- February 12 - No meeting
- February 13-17 - 72nd Model Legislature & Court (Sacramento)
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 ML/C ("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.
Family 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.
Model United Nations Starts Tuesday! This week sees the return of the Model Legislature & Court's companion program for middle school students (grades 6-8) to the Sacramento area. If you have a middle school student at home or have friends with children in that age group, please pass along an invitation to attend our first meeting tomorrow, January 7, 2020 from 6:15-7:30pm at the Tahoe Park Community Center (5959) 8th Avenue). Registration is now open!
Looking Ahead: Our next conference runs from Saturday, January 18 through Monday, January 20. We will again travel by train on roughly the same schedule as the last conference. Our final conference, the full Model Legislature & Court, runs from Thursday, February 13 through Monday, February 17. Unlike our Fresno trips, because the final conference is here in Sacramento, parents must provide transportation to and from the downtown Sacramento area. Plan for Thursday arrival around 10am and Monday pick-up around 9am. Our February 5 pre-MLC meeting will be mandatory for all delegates and a member of each delegate's family. Please make plans to attend!
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.
Model United Nations Starts Tuesday! This week sees the return of the Model Legislature & Court's companion program for middle school students (grades 6-8) to the Sacramento area. If you have a middle school student at home or have friends with children in that age group, please pass along an invitation to attend our first meeting tomorrow, January 7, 2020 from 6:15-7:30pm at the Tahoe Park Community Center (5959) 8th Avenue). Registration is now open!
Looking Ahead: Our next conference runs from Saturday, January 18 through Monday, January 20. We will again travel by train on roughly the same schedule as the last conference. Our final conference, the full Model Legislature & Court, runs from Thursday, February 13 through Monday, February 17. Unlike our Fresno trips, because the final conference is here in Sacramento, parents must provide transportation to and from the downtown Sacramento area. Plan for Thursday arrival around 10am and Monday pick-up around 9am. Our February 5 pre-MLC meeting will be mandatory for all delegates and a member of each delegate's family. Please make plans to attend!
It's a Great Time to Join the YMCA! The new year leads to a lot of resolutions - many around health and wellness. Healthy Living is one of the Y's three areas of focus along with youth development and social responsibility. If you want to find out what the YMCA has to offer, come visit in January! No joining fees from now through the end of the month.
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Mark your calendars:
January 9 - Meetings resume
January 12 - Parking Lot Fundraiser
January 15 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting
January 16 - CONA, NJC, Governing Board Apps Due in Reggo
January 18-10 - Training & Elections Conference II
February 5 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting
February 13-17 - 72nd Model Legislature & Court
February 23 - Celebration Banquet 2020 (tickets on sale in January)
January 12 - Parking Lot Fundraiser
January 15 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting
January 16 - CONA, NJC, Governing Board Apps Due in Reggo
January 18-10 - Training & Elections Conference II
February 5 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting
February 13-17 - 72nd Model Legislature & Court
February 23 - Celebration Banquet 2020 (tickets on sale in January)
We are committed to equal program access for all and are dedicated to ensuring the benefits of Y&G are available to every student in our community without regard to financial need. No delegate should ever drop out or refrain from joining because of financial concerns. If you want to do this program, we want you to do this program.
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