Thursday, February 8, 2007

First Official Meeting

On Feb. 3, 2007, a committee has been elected and approved as a chapter to represent the county of San Diego. The chapter's title is "Greater San Diego". The chapter is for California Association for the Deaf (aka CAD). We will perform as watchdogs and community center for our county where our members can come to learn and share our goals for the Deaf/HH community while enjoying our fun events that we will host in the future.

Membership form can be accessed on this web page where you can print out the form to be mailed along with the fees (maximum: 30$ for two years).

The committee is consisted of a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, membership director, and directors-at-large. More roles can be added and filled if needed at further meetings.

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The meeting on February 3rd was conducted to elect the committee. The president is Kim, the vice-president is Kirsi, the secretary is Melissa, the treasurer is Kristen, the membership director is Tara, and finally the directors-at-large are Clifton and Karyn.

What does each position of the committee do?
The president of a chapter is the REPRESENTATIVE of the chapter so you will go out and speak for San Diego, you will deal with issues and decide how to distrubate the duties to your committee, and work with the president of CAD to let them know what is happening in your region/county.

The vice-president of a chapter's responsibilites are to relay issues/information/situations to the president, manage the inner system of committee (you deal with treauser, secratry, et cetera directly), basically all the dirty work behind the curtains are done by you to keep the president informed.

The secretary is to write down meeting, important information et cetera so everybody in the chapter can check up for facts, statements, et cetera.

The treasuer is to take care of funds, budget the chapter, and host fundraisers if needed.
Membership director is responsible for recuriting, taking care of membership fee (see CAD website), and making sure people are up to the date with their membership.

Directors-at-large are two positions to be filled-- one to represent the north side of county, another to represent the south side of county. Both works with assignment by President or VP to investigate a complaint, a situation, et cetera-- be detectives whom then relay the details back to the president.

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There will be a meeting on March 3rd, 2007 to recruit members and conduct a discussion with what vision we should take up on. More information will be posted on this blog.

(There is a state-wide meeting for all CAD chapter hosted at CSU-Sacramento, however we are a fairly new chapter so we are exempted from attending the state-wide CAD meeting. )

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