Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
2:48 PM
Subject: Bulletin 5 (goes great with
leftover turkey)
Bulletin 5 of 8
“Y&G,
for me, has always filled me with hope and faith:
...
faith in the selflessness of my peers because there is a community of adults
committed to serving others,
...
hope that, as mentors, we may inspire positive change in others and foster
genuine leadership through our integrity and our example,
...
and faith that through my involvement, I may impact others lives; even if it is
just through my continued presence, participants have confidence that I
genuinely care.
Stacy Kruse, Lead Staff
Print Media
REMINDERS
December 3rd
POSTMARK: Legislative Bills, Supplements,
Abstracts, etc.
December 7th
POSTMARK: VIP
Day Invite request Form
December 7th
POSTMARK: NIC
Chair Form
December 7th
POSTMARK: 60th ML/C Delegation Registration Form due to be
postmarked.
(Emailed “Excel template Forms” must be sent no later than December 11th.)
December 7th
POSTMARK: 60th
ML/C Delegation Deposit Form
December 14th
T&E I fees past due. Late charges may apply on unpaid balances.
December 21st
POSTMARK: Governor’s
Cabinet Application due to be postmarked.
December 21st
POSTMARK: Staff
Lobbyist to the Youth Governor Application.
T&E I WRAP-UP
T&E I is over, and a great number of
thanks are due to the volunteer staff and advisors who helped make it a great
event. We really appreciate all of your hard work and effort. The weather was
decent and thank you to the weather gods for not making it rain.
As always, we have a few left over lost and
found items. Contact Shelley at the
Y&G office to claim them.
OFFICERS AND
CHAIRS
Congratulations to those
delegates who ran or applied for offices at T&E I. Whether their bid was
successful or not, they should be proud of themselves.
A list of Elected Officers be found here: http://www.calymca.org/y&g/leadership/60officers.html
HAVE YOU PAID YOUR T&E I BALANCE?
Please follow through with
your accounting office and make sure that a check is sent for your balance
due. If you have a question about your balance, contact Shelley at the
Youth & Government office (650) 522-9622 or shelley@calymca.org.
Now is a good time to review the fees and costs page in the Advisor
Manual.
Freshmen
and Sophomores who did not attend T&E I will not able to select their topic
group. Instead, they will be assigned a group by the Forum Staff.
ADVISORS WANTED!
At T&E II we utilize staff and advisors
to be our expert witnesses as part of the delegates’ training.
As you read the forum topics on the enclosed
Forum Groups with Topic Statements List, we would like for Advisors to consider
their expertise in these areas. If you worked with gangs or were in one, if you
volunteer at Planned Parenthood or Operation Rescue, or if you have knowledge
that would be helpful to any of these groups, please call Rolf Davidson at
(650) 522-9622 or send him an email at rolf@calymca.org.
If you have questions about the Forum Program,
please contact Richard Chapin.
SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS
The Scholarship Committee met on Friday,
November 16th. Results were mailed to the lead advisors on
Tuesday, November 20th. Over 300 applications have been
received, some of which were not considered because they are incomplete.
Applications postmarked after the deadline were also not considered.
Special thanks to Board of Directors members Kip
Sturgeon, Cherie Harrison, and Susan Brooks for reviewing the
requests this year. Questions regarding scholarships should be directed
to Pam Sheble.
SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS
AVAILABLE FOR DELEGATES WITH DISABILITIES
Here’s a great opportunity for high school
youth who would normally not consider participating in Youth & Government
due to physical or learning disabilities.
The California Health Care Foundation has
provided a grant to Youth & Government. Awards in amounts of
approximately $300 will be given toward the cost to participate in the program
to each individual who qualifies. Youth & Government is also willing
to waive registration fees for a caregiver or attendant should a delegate need
one in order to participate.
The basic qualification is to have a
disability that would normally cause a student to be reluctant to participate
as a delegate. Examples would be persons who are blind, deaf, in wheel chairs,
etc. Youth with learning disabilities also qualify.
We encourage Lead Advisors and YMCA Program
Directors to seek out persons with disabilities through the schools where you
normally recruit participants. Awards can also be made to youth delegates
with disabilities already in your program. Please Contact Pam Sheble.
LEGISLATIVE BILLS DUE
Work should be well underway on your
Legislative Bill. The December 3rd, 2007
deadline for submitting your bill is quickly approaching. The deadline is
final and will be strictly enforced.
You are required to submit one bill
for every twenty- five delegates - up to a maximum of 4 bills per delegation. Any
delegation with close to 25 delegates and wishing to submit a second bill may
do so.
Delegations failing to submit a bill signed
by their Board Chair and Executive Director will automatically be dropped from
the program. Late delegations will automatically be disqualified from
"Premier Delegation" status.
It is mandatory that you submit backup material with your
bill (newspaper articles, interviews, brochures, etc.) at time of submission.
The backup material is essential for the Legislative Analyst and Lobbyist to do
their jobs. This is part of the Bill Submission Packet and as such is part
of the Premier Delegation Criteria. Any delegation that
doesn't include this material with their bill (postmark by December 3rd)
will find their bill automatically placed at the bottom of the docket in its
assigned committee.
If you have a delegation consisting of all
sophomores, you are not required to write a bill. All sophomores
participate in the Forum Program and will be unable to sponsor their own bill.
However, If you want to write a bill, you
will need to secure a bill sponsor from another delegation. In that case, please
call Pam Sheble at the ML/C office so that she can assist you to find a
delegate to sponsor your bill.
Please refer back to the Bill Development
Section in your Advisor Manual for detailed information on preparation of the
Bill Forms.
ONLINE BILL SUBMISSION
Once again, your bills will be submitted
online through our page at http://bills.calymca.org.
This page is very similar to our NIC Proposal submission page. You will be able
to log in and follow the online instructions to submit your bill. Once
submitted, you can print out a hard copy to have signed by your Executive
Director. Please remember that you must also submit a signed hard copy of your
bill and your back-up material.
BILL SPONSOR
Each YMCA must list a Bill Sponsor (the
legislator who will first speak for your bill in committee) on their
registration form. If you haven't yet decided who will be speaking for the bill
in committee, please list the most likely legislator on your form. Only
Senators and Assembly members can be Bill Sponsors in committee.
VIP DAY
VIP Day will be Friday, February 15, 2008.
This is the day during the Model Legislature/Court that you can bring important
persons from your community to see the program in action. You may request
invitations using our VIP day Request Form. You may either give us a list of
names and addresses and we will mail the invitation out directly to them, or
you can order the amount of invitations you want (5, 10, 20, etc.) and you can
send them out.
There is no cost for attending VIP Day as this event is
sponsored by Chevron. A Continental Breakfast and a Luncheon with a
Keynote Speaker is included at no cost to your YMCA or to the guests. All
transportation expenses to VIP Day are the responsibility of the local YMCA or
the participant.
Delegations usually use VIP day to spotlight Youth and
Government to their Board Leadership or local dignitaries. Delegations that
bring VIPs to Sacramento report increased support of the program at the local
level. Y&G’s State Office does not make any claims on guests that you
invite.
Please feel free to invite those who can support your Youth
& Government program. However, as we rely on the generosity of Chevron to
underwrite this event, it is not an appropriate venue for parents who wish to
visit their children. If you have questions about VIP Day, please call Cathy Saliba Interim CEO, in the ML/C office at
(650) 522-9622,
LOBBYIST PROGRAM UPDATE
The Lobbyist Program, headed by Tim Kordic, is gearing up for
a big year! Two items that he would like you to be aware of:
(1) He is looking for five Advisors to
work with the Lobbyists at T&E II and Sacramento. These people do not have
to know anything about Lobbying, but having group work skills is helpful.
Each advisor works with a group of 20 lobbyists. Advisors will be trained
and assisted by seasoned lobbyist advisors.
(2) If you have a delegate who was in
the Lobbyist Program last year and who would like to serve as the Staff
Lobbyist to the Youth Governor, please have them fill out the Staff
Lobbyist To The Office Of The Youth Governor Form and return it by December
21st.
VIDEO PROGRAM
Interviews for Video Program positions will begin at 10:00
am on the first day of T&E II. If you have a delegate who has applied
for a video spot, they need to arrive on time to attend this
meeting. Remember, please make sure you have placed your
video applicants in another role (one which they will be happy with) should
they not make the cut in the Video Program. We usually have nearly 100
applicants for the 25 or so positions.
UPDATE ON NATIONAL
ISSUES COMMISSION (NIC)
The date for the NIC Commission Chair Form
to be postmarked is Friday December 7, 2007.
New for this year is the NIC Adversary General Position. This
position will be elected “in-house” within the NIC. The Adversary General is
responsible for coordinating Con speeches for proposals in the later rounds of
the NIC process. For questions about this position please contact Portia
Rivera.
Regarding NIC proposals: All delegations received a complete NIC Proposal Writing Handbook in the Advisor Manual. You can also find “The Proposal Writing Handbook For Delegates” online by going to http://www.calymca.org/y&g/program/nic
To
submit their proposals NIC Commissioners should log on to http://nic.calymca.org. All NIC Commissioners are required to
bring 10 copies of their completed proposal to T&E II.
If you have any
questions about the NIC, please e-mail Portia
Rivera
ML/C REGISTRATION FORMS
Your updated Registration Form for the Model
Legislature will be sent to you hopefully by Monday, December 4th. It will
include everyone attending T&E I plus anyone you registered as
“absent”. At this point, any person that you are not registering for
T&E II and the ML/C needs to be deleted from your roster.
Please contact Pam Sheble at
(650) 522-9622 if you have any issues regarding Registration Forms. Do
not submit forms that are incomplete. If you don’t have someone’s address
or phone number – get it! You need complete information on each participant
for liability reasons. Collect those e-mail addresses – we really need them for
our program staff.
Adhere to the distribution
formula located in your Advisor Manual. Do not deviate from this form
without permission from Pam. Remember, if you have a Junior or Senior
elected to an office at T&E I then you have one free spot. You would
still distribute the total number of Juniors and Seniors but you will not fill
any one assignment. You can choose which position not to fill.
ASK A DEAN
If you are interested in
having a Dean come to your delegation meeting, or if you have a question for
the Deans please feel free to email Dwayne White DWHITE3605@aol.com. Dwayne is our lead dean and our
resident Code of Conduct expert. His goal every year is to have zero delegates
sent home for Code of Conduct violations. He is a great resource to ensure that
your delegates fully understand the Code of Conduct.
RIDESHARING
If you are interested in
ridesharing to Camp Roberts for the T&E II, be sure to email Kip Sturgeon with
the following information and Kip will do his best to match you with others in
your area:
1.
Your name.
2.
Whether you have space or looking for space.
3.
The number of seats you have or need.
4.
Your city.
BILL CONCESSIONS AT T&E II
If
you are planning on selling anything at T&E II you must submit a new Concessionaire’s Permit. Please
contact Rolf
Davidson
for more information. Due to logistical considerations we will not be providing
ice at Camp Roberts. Delegations who require refrigeration should contact Rolf prior
to the conference.
2008 Annual Support Campaign
Building for the future!
Strap
on your tool belts and fasten your hard hats. We’re ‘Building for the
Future” in our 60th year with our construction themed 2008 campaign!
Every single donation, large, small and everywhere in between, is meaningful
and helps each delegate by reducing the overall cost of the program across the
board.
Our
Chief Architects (aka: the Campaign Steering Committee) have given us the
blueprints for a successful campaign. Dean Borg, Sam Birer, Katie
Clancy, Jenna DeLong, Barath Ganesh, Cherie Harrison, Alan Hostup, Laura
Jelensky, Alex Karaman, John Lindner, Wallis Locke, Trevor Michels, Kyun
Saiidnia, Kathy Yoshii are assembling the 38 Forepersons (Team
Captains) who will be recruiting the entire Construction Crew
(Campaigners) for the job!
Our
General Contractor, Cathy Saliba (Interim CEO), and our Specialty
Contractors (Board of Directors) have written up the construction budget at
$280,000 for this 60th year’s project. Building shall be
completed on February 16th and will be celebrated at our Victory
Breakfast in Sacramento!
The
Ground-Breaking Ceremony (Kick-off) will be held at Camp Roberts on Sunday,
January 20th. See you there!
And, if you’re interested in being a Campaigner,
please contact Project Manager (Campaign Administrator), Michelle Warden at the ML/C office,
650-522-9622. With your help, our skyscraping goals will be achieved!
WEDNESDAY ARRIVALS
We
only received a handful of responses to our Early Arrival Form for Wednesday
arrivals in Sacramento.
Since last year 21 delegations used this
option, we think that maybe this was lost in the shuffle. If you want to
arrive on Wednesday somewhere from mid-afternoon to 10 pm, you must let us know
before December 1st, because we need to release the block or rooms
we are holding. If you plan to arrive on Wednesday you need to check in
by 10 pm (new rule). Questions, call Pam at 650-522-9622.