Hicap meeting 7/2/2019 – incoming and outgoing board members
- All new and ongoing hicap board members need to sign the last page of the bylaws
- Familiarize new council with Group Norms and Nonprofit Intro (from the files page on website)
- Someone needed to finish paperwork for Amazon Smile. Anyone interested in that?
- Board votes for how to spend money
- Cannot get involved in political campaigns
- Maintain confidential info and don’t leak it or we will lose our privilege of getting advanced info
- Individual and group duties: Listed in bylaws
- Karen has background in fundraising, willing to look into that
- Look for hicap council history timeline on facebook and put it on website
Mailing lists
- Large mailchimp list with 3k people
- Smaller lists for individual classes (EAP) or schools (AAP)
- We don’t get any contact info from the district
Where is council going? What are we doing?
- Up to council what we advocate for
- PD for hicap teachers is on the list
- Bring info from around the district to the admins
- Disperse info from admin to the families
- Get on the calendar of the principal from the school
- Reps can ask to be on the interview committee for new eap hire
- who wants to be admin?
- Sreeni
- Yongqian (John)
- Carson
- Accepting new members – determining if they are legit or trolls
- Anyone can answer questions on the page.
- New members don’t have to answer questions if they aren’t comfortable doing so.
Elections for Exec board
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President
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Veronica nominates Austina
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Unanimous yes
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VP
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Sylvia Nominated Jenifer Spanton
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Unanimous yes
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Secretary
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Karen nominated Stephen
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John nominated Bonnie
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Unanimous yes for Co-secretaries Stephen and
Bonnie
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Treasurer
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Jennifer nominated Lauren
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Unanimous yes
Nametags
- · Carson makes motion to purchase new nametags, Jennifer seconds, Unanimous yes
Proposed amendments and policies to bylaws
- · 3 amendments – discussion and some edits
- Carson motions to accept new amendments with changes, Norma seconds, Unanimously passed
- Will put amendments on website integrated into bylaws
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Anti-racism policy – Discussion
- Veronica motions to ratify the anti-racism polity, jasmine seconds, 1 abstains, all others vote yes
- Will put policy on website
New Hicap director
- Amity Butler – new director of Advanced Programs – reports to Super
- Worked with Dr. Reid in the past
- Was principal at K-6 school previously
- Working on getting post card out – will have EAP dates and our mailing list
Connect with your counterpart to exchange info
Adjourned
