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Women's Commission
Meeting Minutes
March 21, 2007
215 N. Mason, Room 1-A
Attendees: Barbara Goff, Stacey Arnold, Beth Etter, Pat Lewis, Shelby Maier, Jill
Walusis, Sue Baccari
Members not in attendance: Tanya McCandlish (Excused))
Liaisons present: Karen Gebhardt, CSU
Liaison not in attendance: Marjorie McTaggart, SAB
Staff Liaison: Suzanne Jarboe -Simpson
Meeting called to order at 6:32pm by Commission Chair, Beth Etter. Introductions were
conducted.
Beth asked for a motion accepting the minutes from the February 21, 2007 meeting.
Stacey moved acceptance of the minutes as presented. Barb seconded the motion. The
motion passed, unanimously.
Announcements
Shelby announced she would be resigning from the Commission the end of April. Her
plans include moving to Denver and beginning work on her doctoral dissertation. She
will submit a letter of resignation.
Old Business
Essay Contest
Stacey reviewed the details and assignments for the contest. Barb distributed a summary
of the RSVPs by contest winners. Several of the winners are planning on attending both
the recognition in front of the PSD Board on Monday, March 26, as well as the City
Council meeting on April 17.
Barb and Sue will make arrangements for flowers for the teachers of the winners.
Pat is handling refreshments for the reception. Pat will plan to get into the Commons
room at PHS about 6pm in order to take care of the set up. She's planning on fruit, cheese
crackers and bottled water.
Stacey has confirmed that Karen Weitkunat will attend the school board meeting as well
as the reception following. Stacey will find out what time the recognition is scheduled
before the School Board and confirm with Commission members.
Stacey made arrangements for trophies for each of the winners. She provided the receipt
to Suzanne who reimbursed her for the expense.
Jill has put together a gift bag for each essay contest winner (6 in all). Contents were
donated by various businesses in Fort Collins.
Shelby and Jill have put together the agenda for the reception, and will co -MC the event.
Each winning essay will be read by a Commission member. The winner will then be
invited to the front of the room and presented with their trophy and gift bag.
Shelby will take photos at the reception.
A suggestion was made to create a photo montage of winners over the years and use that
as part of the marketing and/or decorations for future essay contest.
Suzanne reminded everyone that if they made purchases for this event, to keep their
receipts and turn them in to her for reimbursement.
MNW Award
One nomination form has been received thus far. The Commission agreed to extend the
deadline for nomination forms, through April 2, 2007. Suzanne will pursue getting the
award mentioned on the front page of www.fcgov.com.
Karen Gebhardt will distribute information about the award at CSU.
The plan is still to recognize the winner at the April 17`h Council meeting, and to then
take the winner out to dinner. Commission members are asked to gather at the City
Council Chambers on April 17`h by 5:30pm.
Pat will make arrangements for a plaque for the winner
Suzanne again reminded everyone to keep receipts for purchases for this event and to turn
them into her for reimbursement.
Newsletter Update
The Commission is waiting to hear from the City Attorney's office on their proposal.
Staff was out of the office last week, due to Spring Break. Suzanne will notify Beth when
she hears anything.
Once the Commission has the go-ahead from the Attorney's office, they will resume their
efforts to get some intern assistance on this project.
KRFC Radio Update
The Commission is interested in hosting more programs through KRFC. The contact
Beth had worked with is leaving the station but provide some suggestions for contacts.
Beth will follow up.
Barb suggested that a note of congratulations be sent to KRFC in honor of their
anniversary. She agreed to compose the note on behalf of the Commission and send it to
them.
New Business
Political Monitoring
Barb and Shelby will work together to draft a position on the legislation being considered
regarding victims of domestic violence. Commission members are considering speaking
before City Council about this legislation.
By -Laws updates
In anticipation of their Council review in July, Commission members made some
recommendations for changes to their bylaws. Each member took notes. Beth will
compile up the changes discussed and share them with the members.
Next Steps: members were asked to review the remainder of the by-laws and come
prepared to discuss them at the next meeting.
Commission Review
The Review process will also include several evaluation questions which were distributed
to the members. Stacey requested that members write up their responses and send them to
her. She will compile them and bring them to the next meeting for review.
At 8:25pm, Jill moved that the meeting be adjourned. Shelby seconded the motion. The
motion passed unanimously.
NOTE: The Commission Meeting for April 18, 2007 has been canceled. Commission
members will attend the recognition at the Council meeting on April 17t', and will then
take the MNW award winner to dinner.
Next regularly scheduled meeting is May 16, 2007, 6:3-8:30pm 215 N. Mason, Rm 1-A