CEA Meeting Notes 9/8/09

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Introductions

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Wendy Zanol: How to hold a 10 minute meeting at your site. Forms weredistributed to give you a step by step guide on how to successfully hold arelevant, efficient meeting that reports what the association is doing and howto encourage member involvement. These forms will also be emailed to siterepresentatives, along with the tax exempt letter that you can give tobusinesses to elicit donations of food for your meetings.

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Rose Devine: AR Raffle. We appreciate your hard work! Do one of thefollowing:1)Hold a ten-minute meeting. Bring a sign-in sheet to our next AR meeting.2)Redecorate your CEA bulletin board and bring a picture to our next ARmeeting.3)Sign up a new member and bring their application form to our next ARmeeting.For each activity you do, you will receive a ticket for a bonus raffle to thankyou for going above and beyond to build our membership. Prizes will varyeach month.

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Wendy: $200 Mini-Grants available! The application is an online process andis due November 13

. Some examples of grants that were awarded last yearare listening centers, senior center field trip, math materials, literature sets,etc.

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Dawn Koberstein: Student teachers can become CEA members, too!Saturday, October 3

there is a booth at the ASU Polytechnic campus. Pleasecontact her if you can help for part of the day.

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Cecilia Loera: Save the date!

October 24

from 11-1 we are having aCEA picnic at Folley Park!

We’ll have a band, burgers, and lots of fun.Bring your families and all of the CEA members (or potential ones) you knowalong with you. We will be sending out flyers for you.

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Bob Harpur: Membership Plan. Across the state AEA has lost members overthe last couple of years due to the issues with the economy. AEA is helpingChandler with their plan to increase membership. We examined the changeswe are making in comparison to what we’ve done in the past to buildmembership.