SCA Meeting 9/12/2012 I. Call to Order (Bridget, President) (3, 2, 1 clap) II. Reading of Minutes of Previous Meeting (Jake, Secretary) – During the summer the officers got together to plan some of events for the school year. We talked about the SCA mission and how we can relate it to Dominions. We want more of the member input, not just officers in leadership class. III. Reports a. President, Bridget 1. Welcome 2. SCA Mission 3. Introduce Executive Council – President Bridget O’Rourke, Vice President Marisa McMahan, Secretary Jake Backers, Treasurer Jack Kelleher, Historian Elizabeth Langager, Parliamentarian Zara Azizian, Spirit Chairs Lauren O’Donnell and Jasmin Simz 4. Leadership class and member relationships – both the members and leadership class must work together to accomplish the goals. We don’t want just the leadership class making all the decisions; it’s your organization too. b. Vice President, Marisa 1. Homecoming Themes, present ideas. Ask Committees to come up with new ideas – When you’re in your committee come up with some new themes! When you’re done, all of the themes are posted along the wall of the auditorium. You all have five stickers. Put the stickers on the themes you like the most. 2. Describe 5 Homecoming Committees – There are five homecoming committees you can be in: spirit, dance, parade/tailgating/bonfire, powder-puff and homecoming court. What will most likely happen is that you will just be put in a group because most people will want the same want. However put down your top three and if you really want to be in those, write down ideas you have! c. Secretary, Jake 1. Membership information – I have contact sheets for everyone, which you must fill out. Both current and new member will have to fill out some sort of application. It will be located outside of Mrs. Relators room (411) on Monday. Ask friends to join! d. Treasurer, Jack 1. Account balance – as of now, balance is $2050. 2. Recent activity – the DJ for homecoming has been purchased at $1950, e. Historian, Elizabeth 1. Check out facebook for Homecoming Voting – After all of you vote for your top five homecoming themes, we will get the list approved by Dr. Brewer. Then once the facebook page is made, the themes will be listed and you can vote for the homecoming theme. 2. Picture next meeting, by committee – SCA is trying something new this year, we want to get to know all of you better so we want to not only have your name in book, but a picture too! Next meeting it’s important that you are there cause when you’re with your committee, a picture will be taken so we can put a name with a face. 3. Lock-in? Overnight, maybe a Sunday/Saturday day – The SCA lock-in will most likely be the weekend after homecoming for a team building, get to know each other better lock-in. f. Parliamentarian 1. How to speak out in the group, making notions – The way we will carry out meetings is through Roberts rules of orders and those procedures. Next meeting we will try to use it so everyone can get a taste of what it will be like. IV. Meet in Committees (Zara: count the # of people and figure out how to divide equally- Marisa) a. Attendance: and choose homecoming committee – you will be put into a homecoming meeting and will be notified at a later time. b. Team Builder: (Marisa and Jake- name game) – now to get to know each other better, we will play a game. It’s called the name game. You have to use an adjective that’s the same letter as your name and once you all are done sharing, without verbal or gesture communication you must get into alphabetical order. c. Brainstorm ideas for homecoming theme – did anyone come up with new exciting ideas for themes? One group came up with a Halloween theme: lanterns, pumpkins, etc. V. Committees Report out (Any new committee business??) a. Spirit (pep rally) b. Powder-puff c. Homecoming court d. Dance e. Parade/tailgating/bonfire f. Zara lead narrowing down of ideas to 5 VI. Old Business (Jake) a. Google Calendar – the Google calendar is filled with meetings and events throughout the year. I will be sending this calendar out to everyone some time shortly. VII. Announcements: (Bridget) a. Homecoming Dates – homecoming week is the 22nd to the 27th of October. Powder puff is the 23rd, the pep rally, parade and the game is on the 26th. There will also be a spirit day for each day during the school days. VIII. Adjournment a. Next meeting is 8:15am Wednesday, September 26 – thank you all for coming out, hope to see you all and ask your friends to join! IX. Positives and Deltas for Interest Meeting a. Positives 1. Good attendance 2. Members were active 3. Response to directions 4. New people 5. Use of stickers 6. Organized agenda 7. Excited 8. Fun 9. Worked together b. Deltas 1. Cafeteria 2. Need gavel 3. Agenda for each person 4. Need feedback 5. Class councils 6. Online survey 7. Parking lot