Central meeting @ Cal Poly Pomona 3/12/04

Minutes taken by Ariel Carmona Jr.

 

I.                    Intro

Chapters present: Cal Poly., Mt.SAC, El Monte High School. Community member Jose Sandoval.

Meeting called to order @6:15 P.M.

a.       Approval of minutes- Cal Poly motions to approve minutes, Mt.SAC 2nds

Minutes approved by consensus.

b.      Approval of agenda- Cal Poly motions to approve agenda, Mt.SAC 2nds

Agenda approved by consensus.

 

 

 

II.                 Old business

·        Application for Non-profit status- Internal coordinator says he needs to submit paperwork and will put in the paperwork tomorrow.

·        Application for central membership- Samples were passed around and changes were suggested. (copy available under documents in yahoo group) Membership application should be completed before May, election time is coming around and most of the new chapter Mesas should be in place by then.

·        UYA- Discussions continued over the logistics of planning for the upcoming conference @ Cal Poly. The focus needs to be placed on the school and transportation. Program also needs to be worked on.

·        Advisory board- was approved @ last Central but internal says that Central needs to start looking for people that are going to be on it, i.e. ex-Mechistas and advisors. Some suggestions were made.

·        Taco Bell – Proposal to organize further with the workers and discussion ensued about the protest and media coverage (i.e. article on the Poly Post etc) Further discussion about what to do about the situation in the future.

·        CalmeCa- Internal issues with elections at their campus have prevented much input from Mt.SAC, chapter apologized for this. It was suggested Central adopt changes and make suggestions to program. Program was finalized @ Cal Poly. The purpose of MeCha is also to get Chicano studies programs at each individual campus.

 

 

 

 

III.               New Business

·        TV Tapings- Central treasurer would like to know when Cal Poly is available to attend TV taping fundraisers. Cal Poly says T&TH & Friday would be good. Discussion ensued over possible future fundraisers like Shakey’s Night but at Marguarita Jones.

·        Statewide- Cal Poly will go, Mt. SAC will also send reps. Community member, former Rio Hondo Chair, Jose Sandoval asked if he could be sponsored by a chapter to attend the conference.

·        Elections- Discussion over the need to fill the position of High School Coordinator for the Central. Mt. SAC: It is very important that we have a H.S. Coordinator, we’ve had a big drop. Mt.SAC officially nominates Fatima for the position, Cal Poly 2nds. Nomination unanimously passes, New High School Outreach Coordinator elected.

·        Support for Mt. SAC- Mt. SAC Co-Chair Veronica Casillas explained the situation with elections at the campus, seeks support of Central at A.S. meeting on Tuesday @ 2PM.

·        Positions-  Pedro Olguin relinquished the title of Internal Coordinator citing the fact he won’t be going to school next quarter. External Coordinator takes over the Central. “Focus on having dreams…otherwise our  people would be dead.” He encouraged the Central never to stop dreaming and recounted some the goals we have accomplished thus far, the grant application, the listserve, the website for the Central, the flyers used by region in the anti-war effort and the anti-war web page.

      

 

IV.              Announcements

 

March 25th the movie “Salt of the Earth” @ Mt.Sac

March 31st- Cesar Chavez celebration on the Mt.SAC campus.

March 21st- the MeCha National Report due.

Next Central location and date TBA

Adjournment @ 8:03 P.M.