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Home My Public Portal About09-14-04 WOMEN'S COMMISSION :�: �. � CITY OF LYNWOOD LYNWOOD WOMEN'S COMMISSION NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETIN�. !,"J,�, Q�� 4�. ,�"""� September 14 2004 �C� OF�LYNW00 � . TUESDAY (`�TV (`1 rnr,�C, �1��CE 3:00 p.m. SEP 0 9 2004 CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS �� p� 7�$ AGENDA ��'� .<, �� :��, Mary Sue Lewis Della Mazziotti " Chairperson Vice Chairperson Verna Culp Ethel Pacheco Maria Lopez Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner 1. Call to Order and Roll Call 2. Pledge of Allegiance 3. Certification of Agenda Posting 4. Minutes Approval For Special Meeting of August 10, 2004 5. Discussion on upcoming October Conference Adiournment Motion to adjourn to the regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber located at 11330 Bullis Road, Lynwood, CA 90262 -•� MINUTES THE SPECIAL MEETING OF Auqust 10, 2004 The special meeting of the Lynwood Women's Commission of the City of Lynwood, California was held on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chamber. The agenda was duly posted as prescribed by the Brown Act. In attendance: Verna Culp, Chair Ethel Pacheco, Vice-Chair Maria Lopez, Commissioner Mary Sue Lewis, Commissioner Della Mazziotti, Commissioner Also present: Alicia Duarte, Staff Crystal Sahagun, Minutes Clerk Lorene Reed, Friend of LWC Lyn Steinfield, Friend of LWC ADMINISTRATIVE ITEMS Commissioner Culp calied the meeting to order at 3:05 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance was lead by Commissioner Lewis. Approval of Minutes: Commissioner Culp moved to approve the minutes of the regular meeting with the necessary corrections. DISCUSSION ITEMS Commissioner Culp told the commissioners that they would be holding the elections of officers later in the meeting because Commissioner Mazziotti was running late. She then asked if anyone had any ideas they would like to talk about for the October Conference. Commissioner Lewis said that a discussion was started briefly at the last meeting. � Commissioner Pacheco asked about the date of this event she asked the staff liason if she knew what date would be available. ' � i, i � __ Staff person Alicia Duarte told the commissioner that it would be a good idea to choose two dates so she can see what date is available. She then asked the commission how long the event usually lasted. Commissioner Culp then began talking about what kind of topics could be talked akiout at this event. Commissioner Lewis said that it would be nice to have a different kind of workshop for the conference. Something to teach the friends how to raise money; like writing letters and proposals. Friend Reed then asked if any of the people that spoke at the NACW conference would be a good idea for the LWC conference. She said that it would be a good idea to have an outside speaker rather than a local speaker that people have already heard before. She suggested to the commission to come up with new topics to talk about because things like abuse has been talked about so much and schools talk about education so people have already heard that. She also suggested themes that will empower show women in the community and show them to stand up for themseives. Commissioner Culp then began talking about fund raising , she said that the women's commissioner can not fund raise, but the friends can raise money ad donate to the commission. The only thing they can not do is use the name of the Lynwood Women's Commission because the commission is directly under City Council. Commissioner Lewis then began suggesting topics such as empowering. Commissioner Culp said that was a good topic to talk about she then asked friends Lyn & Reed if they had any ideas that they wanted to share. Friend Reed suggested leadership development. Commissioner Culp then asked how many workshops then would have for the day of the event and she also asked everyone to choose a workshop then would like to work on. Commissioner Pacheco said she would like to work on fundraising & recruitment, � Commissioner Lewis would like to work on organizational skills as well as leadership � development and Commissioner Lopez said she would work on education. i Commissioner Mazziotti said she would like to work on a topic addressing young women and teen pregnancy; education on preventing teen pregnancy. ' Staff Liason Duarte then passed out forms for the election of the officers to the � commissioners. '� , ' Commissioner Culp then let the commissioners know that there term was over this year �, so they need to write a letter stating why they should remain on the commission. '{ � � 1 Everyone then voted on who would be the chair and who would be the vice chair. Staff collected the ballots and counted them she then read the results to the commission. The person that receive the most votes for Chair was Commissioner Mary Sue Lewis she received 4 votes and Commissioner Mazziotti received 2 votes for Vice chair which made her the winner. Commissioner Culp then went over some of the details that were discussed for the October conference. She asked the commissioner if anyone had any comments. She then told the commissioners that at the next meeting they would have the installment of the officers. She asked if the commission would like to invite the City Clerk Andrea Hooper for the instaliment of the new Chair and Vice Chair. The discussion was then finalized and the commissioners talked about the details then had decided on for the October Conference. Commissioner Lopez suggested Women in Politics & Education Commissioner Mazziotti also liked that topic as well as preventing teen pregnancy. Commissioner Pacheco said she would work on Fundraising and Recruiting . Commissioner Lewis would like to talk about organizational skiils and emancipation, Commissioner Culp would like to talk about politics. The commission agreed on the theme "Women in Power". Commissioner Culp suggested that everyone get a speaker in mind pertaining to their topic to talk about at the next meeting. Commissioner Culp told the commissioner that they are now members of the California commission before they were just members of the National . She then explained that the California women's commission are just friends of the National. She then talked about the Linda Sanchez event August 6 2004 at the performing arts center. Staff Liaison Duarte asked if the 2" or 3' Thursday of October wouid be good for their event, everyone said yes so she said she would find out what date was available. i I ADJOURNMENT 1 � Motion to adjourn to the regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, September 14, 2004 i at 3:00 p.m. in the city council chamber, 11330 Bullis Road, Lynwood, CA 90262 1 I , I � I � --