Okay, it's recording. I didn't say we're recording, but the meeting is being recorded. This is the April 9 board meeting. I think we have a, oh, I have a lot of people to admit Anthony, I'm going to make you a co-host. Oh, so you can admit people. Okay, you're a co-host now. So if you see somebody come in and I don't see them, please admit them. Okay, welcome everybody to the April 9 board meeting. We are putting in our job, our names and our job on the board so that people who are new will know who we are. And also it helps Nora with the minutes. So the first thing on the, we should, the first thing on the agenda is the membership report and I'm proud to say that number one we've come to hit my goal of 2000. We're now at 2026. And in February we got 28 new members. And in March we got 29 new members and I have to say that this is directly related to those I call them small dose PD events that we've been having. They really bring in membership so I appreciate everybody doing all the work that they're doing on getting up events going and Marsha for putting them on the calendar and everybody else for doing the events. It's been great and I really think it's driving our membership. Right. So the minutes. So I stopped sharing Nora. I'm not. I'm sorry, I have been in zoom all day I don't have the minutes open. Okay, so. Did you link to them. I don't have them really didn't put them in. Okay, we'll come back to me. I'll find them and I'll add the link to the agenda. Okay, open but hopefully they will have already been reviewed prior to the meeting and it's just a. Yeah, I did read them but I don't know about the other people. So we'll go on to Nermla with the financials in. I'm going to go ahead sharing. Yes, please. And then I'm going to go ahead and share in the chat box, the link to the. And let me give you privilege. Hold on. That's the zoom link. Yeah, sharing the. Okay, correct me if I'm wrong my sharing the. The link to my presentations live. Okay. Hello everyone good afternoon. Happy Friday. Great to see you all and I'm here to present our financial support financial report. So let me just take you to my screen just bear with me here. Thank you Margie. Just. Okay I have a lot of windows spoken. So, here it is. All right. So to start off. I'm going to be reporting the period from February 1st. Can you guys see my screen. Yeah. All right. Okay. Okay. So February 1st, all the way through April 8, I was yesterday and good news starting from February 1st. We had the starting balance of 27,245 and 32 cents. And then from there we had deposits. We had a revenue of about 6,000, a little over 6,000. And that's from the registration membership. And thanks to the, what Susan called the small dose PD seminars. And also the IG chapters and local chapter events. So thanks to you all.  And then as far as expenses, we have all these checks transnational bank, authorized net and the beef consulting website so let me start off with a checks. So those are the ones that we've spent our outstanding debt, like show gear, Susan gear, and Ellen Lang. And so far we've paid off Ellen Lang and show gear. So we just owe Susan about 2600. Right. And then so a total expenses would be 11,570 dollars and 86. And so from the 27,000 we add 6000 and then we we subtracted 11,000. And so our net amount by the end of February is about 21,834. Moving on to the March and April. We also have expenses. Same thing checks transnational bank authorized net and beat. And so the checks, they're comprised of 5000 from 5000 to Joan Morrison, who helped us with the hotel and the consulting and the Pasadena conference in fall 2022. And then of course, we had some expenses, like Susan gear and all the other, all the other. Sorry about that. Sorry. Okay, and then transnational bank, as you know, is the one that processes our bank transactions for Bank of America and authorized dot net is the one that clears and approves the member leap from our website. And of course, these consulting website is the one that is spent for our website depending on the number of members. So we now have as of April 8 this is just a snapshot of our existing balance 18,897 and of course this can change. Maybe minute by minute. If we have registrations coming up and membership that are coming in this 18,000 definitely changes. So, so yeah kudos to everyone and knowing that this is an all volunteer organization. I'm just well pleased to announce to you that we're doing well financially. And then moving on. So here it is. Okay, this is a great news for everyone from 101,241 and 86 cents of a debt since 2019. We now have 2600 just outstanding balance that what we owe. And that's with Susan gear so good job everyone for doing their best to help out in reducing our debt. All right, and then moving on. So this is a good time to share that I have volunteered to be the co chair for the annual conference in 2022 fall 2022 in Pasadena. And I am pleased to announce to you that we have paid 15,000, and we still owe 46,000. So right before we get into the door of the Pasadena conference, we have to make sure that we pay this 46,000 but good thing we're able to do well in our spring conference as far as as far as the numbers are concerned. So, yeah, there's actually nowhere. I don't think there's a reason to worry about this 46,000 to be paid in August 2022. And so, lastly, I just want to ask you if there's anything that you want to. You want me to clarify anything because we're doing our best to be transparent here and we're, we want to make sure that we're disclosing everything to you so if there's anything that's unclear anything that you need further clarification. Feel free to ask any questions on the chat, or anything that you'd like to add any comments or input or maybe a suggestion on how we can make this better. And that's pretty much it that's all I have to share so thank you all for listening. I'd like to do a shout out to Los Padres for their conference because they did their report so we have. We have some information here. I trace just sent in, I guess the report. So I emailed it to you but I can't find it in my email. All right, shout out to Los Padres. Yes. Yeah. Here it is. Here it is. I want to put in the how much money they made. So it looks like they made $1,920 in their conference. So that's excellent. Great job Los Padres. And we're still waiting on Orange County's report. So when that comes in. I'm trying to get the agenda up correctly. You see the agenda. Not yet. No. Well, we see a lot of other stuff, but not the agenda. Okay. Let's try again. Sometimes it doesn't share the way you want. Yeah, that's right. All right, here we go. That should do it now. Okay. And now. No. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Okay. So we can do the minutes now, right? Yes. They're linked. So I'll open them up, I guess. Or did. Yeah, I'll just open them here. And. Somebody I cannot move until October when I'm past president. So somebody could move to approve the minutes. I move. I move to approve. Or approve the minutes. My second. Okay. And is there any discussion? I went through all the minutes and put in all my comments. So I think the secretary has. Taking care of my comments and suggestions and. So I'm good. Okay. Let's take, can we take a vote, put your name in the chat pod and say who can move. You approve or you abstain or. If you're a voting member, only voting. Can I, because I'm not. No, you can't move. Right. I don't think Susan can. Marsha can move. Norma can move. Okay, I can move. And who can second. You can. Susan King. I don't think I can vote. I think that's all I can do. Okay. Anthony second. I'm going to take my vote. Okay. I'm going to take my vote. I'm going to take my vote. I'm going to take my vote. I'm going to take my vote. And Anthony seconds. Right. Okay. And then please put your name in the chat box. And whether you vote. Yes. No, or abstain. Only voting members. Yeah. If you don't know your voting member or not, then you're probably not.  All right. I think the motion process. Okay, great. All right. Let's go back to the agenda. I was kind of liking the. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Pick them up. Pick them up. It was inspiration for me to get off my chair. Or because I don't get across my chair, I thought it would be a good idea. I kind of got an idea from her. Okay. So we've done the financial. So now we're going to finally approve. I hope this new IG. So we haven't. The last time we met. She didn't. So I think all we need to do now is to vote to approve this new. IG, which is the name is what I should put the name in there, Margie. Oh yeah, what did we decide on the name? Corpus informed research and teaching. Corpus. Kurt. You're going to call it. Hi. It's it. C, C, I R T. C, I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. I R T. Any other questions? Research and teaching. And are you going to call it anything? I mean, are you going to pronounce that acronym? Oh, Kurt Kurt. Kurt. Yeah. I mean, if you prefer, we could do curl and it could be teaching and learning, but, you know, research and learning. But I kind of liked Kurt. Okay. Well, let's go with what you like because we need the name to be With a dash. The hyphen. Research and teaching. Where does the hyphen go? Excuse me. Between corpus and informed. Okay. Got it. I'm right. I'm in the minutes. You don't see the minutes, but I got it in the minutes. I trust you. Okay. So we need to vote on this. So I need somebody to move. Maybe Anthony. Oh. Okay. And then somebody to second. I can second it. Okay. So in the chat box, all in favor of adding this new IG to our group, please type in your name and yes, no, or abstain.  Okay. And. Anthony seconded. Did I hear that right? Congratulations, Margie. You have a new IG. Thank you. Thank you. It took a longer time than I thought it would take. Thanks everybody. No, I have to do is figure out what an IG coordinator does. Okay. Help you with that Bentley will help you. Okay. So we have, okay, I want to talk about a partnership that we have CCAE, which is the California council of adult ed. Has partnered with us. And the partnership is that they give us a free exhibit space. They give us a free exhibit space. They give us a free exhibit space. Their exhibit space is worth about $1,000. They're using Cuba this year for their conference. And they have, we're going to get stuff. Put in the booth for, you know, people who come and go, but we need somebody to be at the booth from 10 to 1130. On April 21st, 22nd and 23rd. Now, normally I would agree to do this, but I don't agree with that. So I am traveling. So I need somebody, maybe we have three people, one person on the 21st, one person on the 22nd, one person on the 23rd is from 10 to 1130. If you can help. Can you email me. And let me know. So that I don't put, Margie, you raised your hand. I have a question. Can you, can you, can you say what C. CCAE stands for again. Yeah. They're really good. They're really good at adult education. And they're really good in the political side. They're very strong. And a lot of adult ed people that are not members of Cate, so go to that conference. So it really, hopefully we'll get some more memberships once we show them what we're doing. So yeah, just send me an email. We have some time, but we do need to get three people. From 10 to 1130, if you have an hour and a half, you can send me an email. If you have an hour and a half or 20 seconds or 23rd, just let me know. And I'll book you for that. Okay. So I think that's enough. Yeah. Anthony, you have a question. Just to kind of an additional thing about that. So. With the booth space. So this is the CCA, their annual conference, their state annual conference. So with the boost space comes the ability, I believe. To help people with their businesses or handouts or perhaps. I know that we've produced a few short videos recently about Cate Sol and he's a membership and things like that. So. It would be good for the person who or people who actually can help out if possible to just kind of bone up a little bit on the Cate Sol website that you may want to point out. So, and maybe between now and then Susan, you and me and, and can figure out maybe some resources or people have suggestions for resources. That could be shared in that booth space. That would be great. So, you know, we, so we might also want to point out, you know, we're active on social media. So encourage people to follow us in social media. So let's just think about sort of collectively, you know, how do we promote Cate Sol at this type of an event? So. And Margie says we should promote the spring conference, which we will do. Yes, of course. We should promote our own conference. Yes. What do you think if we wrap up opportunity draw a membership for them. One went one full year membership and have people sign up and then one person who comes will get a membership and the other people hopefully will become members. We need to take an action item on. Oh, sorry, Anthony, I had my. I'm sorry, Nancy, go ahead. Oh yeah. No, no worries. It was just to Anthony's point with regard to. Getting whoever is at the. The booth. I guess we can get some social media, any of the films that we've put together that focus on either the 10 minutes. Or any of the, the JPEGs that have that, that information about membership and the perks of membership. And we can even put together on this and I can put together something like a social media package for whoever is, is at the booth. Great. Thank you, Nancy. Oh yeah. So do we need to vote on this idea of maybe Margie even suggest maybe even a conference registration? That would be nice. They're not very expensive. So. Do we need to vote on that? You think? Cause it's money. We should probably vote just to be safe. So, um, Anthony, will you move? Okay. Um, So, all right. So I moved that. Catee saw. Um, offer. A free. Let's see. Um, Offer a free membership. And or. Um, conference. Um, A spring conference registration. I don't think we can. I don't think you should say and, or I think it has to be. You need to do one of the. And or, or. I'm wondering if maybe we should just approve it at, since we're at the board at the moment and maybe later, just make a decision what we really want to do at the end. If that. That's what I, that's why I'm saying an and or. Well, that. And or doesn't make sense. Cause. It sounds too would be. And we would say. And. Okay. All right. So we'll do. All right. So we'll do both. Um, oh. Okay. Would it. Okay. Hold on. Would these things go to the same person then? No. Two separate. Two separate items. Okay. All right. Let me. Let's. Reverse here. And don't use the word raffle as you know. Right. What's the replacement word? Opportunity drawing. Opportunity drawing. Yeah. Thank you. Um, okay. So Katesel. I move that Katesel will. Offer. A free. One free membership. And one. Spring conference registration. To visitors. To the Katesel booth. At the CCAE. 2021 state conference. Perfect. So that means that everybody who comes to the booth. Pass to sign in so that they will be spawn on a name list to get the winner. Yeah. I should say, right. Offer, offer via an opportunity drawing. So not one per visitor, but. Right. One in the drawing. And we'll probably use a Google form for that. Have them fill it out. If they're not a member. If they're a member, they're not going to want a membership. So only non-members would fill that out. Right. So yeah, I think that is very doable. Do I have a second? Yeah, nor could you read that back. Anthony. Moves to offer via an opportunity drawing. One free membership and one. Spring conference registration. Two visitors to the Katesel booth. At the CCAE annual conference. In April. Can you say to two. Yes. And then I said to two separate. Well, I didn't. Craft it, but basically. The two separate individuals. Two. Two separate. Oh, I said two separate items to. Offer. To two separate individuals. Okay. Okay. Can somebody second. Wish I could. I second. I second that. That's normal. Okay. Okay. All those in favor, put your name and yes or no. Or abstain. While we're on the voting, we should probably do the. The last voting action item. Get that all done with. Okay. Okay. Okay. Great. So let's just do this last red item here. And this is from Randy. Randy, would you like to talk about this? Let's see here. I have it under. Sure. Okay. Sure. Susan, thank you. At our last. Meeting of the Los Padres chapter officers. It was raised that we have. To move our web content from its existing place. Los Padres, kateesaw.org onto the new section of kateesaw.org. When that section is ready. And Marsha is going to be working to get that ready for us. But then it came up that we have another. Opportunity to hold on to our domain. Los Padres kateesaw.org. As a placeholder with a redirect. Routine that would send. Visitors on the web from our old domain. To the new place when it's set up and running. And that's to our advantage because. You know, Los Padres kateesaw shows up in Google searches and other search engines and anybody clicking on us in a search engine. Search result. Would be taken to a. Site not found or some kind of error message. Unless we have our domain. Sort of maintained. And this would cost the organization approximately. $10 per year. That was the estimate we got from our webmaster. So we are wondering if. Kateesaw can support us at the rate of $10. Estimated per year to keep doing this. So I'm all for this. Myself. I think it's worthwhile. But I don't know how others feel. Just a question. Are we talking about. Indefinitely or just during the transition to the new site. So far we're talking about indefinitely. Or until the search engine stopped showing it up, showing up with it, and it will happen where eventually when it doesn't have. Nobody going there, it will stop showing up on Google. And so then maybe that that point. It would be, but that's like a year or two away. That sounds reasonable. We can revisit it. How's that? So, um, so we, so we're, we've got you covered until February of next year. So it would be from February of next year. So maybe we should bring this back up. Randy, when it comes closer to where you have to give up the website. This is not the same thing. A web domain name is not the same thing as the website. So in our previous meeting at the board, we agreed to pay for the. Website, but we did not discuss the domain name. Is that correct? Correct. That is correct. So this is a kind of, it's tangential, but it's, it's a separate issue. I mean, it's separate pile of money to a different. So it's not the same thing. It's not the same thing. It's the same organization that does domain names. Right. But it would, it would allow people who click on the search link to know that. We're, we haven't already determined this. So if we want to formalize it, we. Would probably say, yes, we, we agreed to provide the $10 per year for N number of years. And then we use it at some point later on. Yeah. So should we do that now? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Can somebody, somebody move. And Marsha, you can't move, but you can word it for us. In the chat box. Somebody move. So move what Marsha said, and Marsha will type it in the chat box, right? Oh, I will. I'm typing out. What you just said. Okay. So that Nora can put it in the minutes and we can vote and get going. Okay. So I'm going to report. The domain. Name. What is it? Los Padres. Los Padres. At a cost of $10 per year for two years. After the end of the website. So that would be another year. So it's almost three years, Randy. Yes. For two more years. Okay. Well, it's, they have a year of the whole website being up. So that ends it like the next February. So it'll be two years after that. Okay. But what I'm saying is, does that. I guess I should ask for clarification for Randy. Does what we. Voted on the previous meeting. Include the domain name. Okay. So I'm going to go back to the board of directors to not vote on this new proposal. This wasn't part of what I originally brought in front of the board last time. So is it, I think you and I are clear that a website and the domain are two different things. Right. For the website, which we agreed upon before. Now you're bringing forth the domain name, which is a separate issue. So I'm going to go back to the board of directors. And I'm just going to say something like this. Let me just read what I've written so far. We move that we support the donor. That can T cell support the domain name of. Los Padres. Can T cell. Org. Add a cost of $10 per year. For. Two more years. Yeah. That's fine. Is that good? Yeah. I'm going to stick that in there and somebody. Sorry about that, guys. So somebody needs to. Name needs to be put into place of the word we. Really would you move for us? Taking notes at the minute. All right. Okay. I could move that. Sorry, I'll put on my camera. I'm sorry about the noise in the background. I moved that. Support. Oh God, the language of. You know, how about if we just write Kara, Kara moves and then all that blah, blah, blah, blah, blah that I wrote in the chat. Okay, perfect. Cause I'm trying to, I'm just trying to remember exactly what. Somebody second. I'll second it. Thank you, Anthony. And then put your vote in the chat box, please. We have one more action item actually after this. We'll just get all the action items done at once. Okay. It looks like that one's passing. All right. The last action item, and this is something I'm not sure is the action item, but I think we should bring it up to the board. Marsha, did you want to talk about this one? Yes, I do. Okay. So. In terms of, you know, I, as an administrator, you and I, and those of us who are administrators on the member league website or the members league. We can get into the event registration information and know who signed up for what things. And let's say that let's just say, for instance, we have a sponsor advertiser exhibit or somebody who is sponsoring one of our events says, okay, well, we're going to offer something free to everybody and we want your name list. Let's say that ask us for that. We, I think we need to say that we're not releasing our members information without their permission. I mean, that's just a, you know, an issue that I think that if a, if a company wants to give free things to everybody, then that they should say, okay, we have this free offer signed up here and then they collect the data from individuals who volunteer to give their contact information that we as an organization do not just blank at least send out the list of people who attended our, our events. And is that written anywhere? Well, I don't know that it is. I would like to propose that we, we accept this as a policy. If you know that it's written somewhere, great. Tell me what I recommend is writing it and then having the board adopt it, adopt, you know, write the policy that you want to post and then we can, we can improve it via email. Where does stuff like this go? On the website. Well, it doesn't, no, I mean, it doesn't mean that everything we, every policy we have has to be on the website. But I mean, like, there's, I don't know what our history is about, you know, like I know we have certain bylaws and that's kind of very general, but when we start coming up with things like, let's just say this is one of other things, other policies, especially because now we're in a remote working world that is a little bit different than face to face. But we also, for example, way back when we also had a policy about using people's photographs. And we said, we're, you know, you're allowing us to use your photograph unless you write to the office and say, don't use my photograph for your promotional materials, right? So where did that go? I mean, like we voted on it, but did it go somewhere where we can say we're going to look up that policy? Outside of the minutes, I don't know where that went. And I think it's a good idea to create an operations guide, which I suggested a long time ago, but that's an enormous amount of work. So as a volunteer organization that hasn't happened yet. Okay. Well, I think that this is one of those things that has to go in a similar place that, you know, that the collective can go back and recall. I mean, there are documents, there's a space for board votes and so forth to go in, in memberly that we can start putting stuff there. But I'm, you know, I don't know organizationally how this works. Well, okay, speaking. Okay. Lily showed me a board zone in member leap and we can keep documents there. So that's where it should live. But what I propose is that if there's new language of a policy that the language be written prior to a board meeting for the board to review and approve. Rather than on the fly. I understand that, but we're kind of at a situation where we have to have a policy. Okay. Can you type into the chat. Marsha. Oh, you want me to type another thing in the, in the chat. What the policy would be that I would say the T cell does not release members information without their permission. That's simple. Yeah. That's what I would say. Anthony has his hand up. Yes, Anthony. So, um, We do have, or have had, um, this policies and procedures guide that I still can't seem to get my hands on. I think that, you know, that might be a logical place for this type of an, you know, emotion to end up in. So, but I, I, I mean, I also agree with what Nora's saying, like, I think we should maybe think this through a little bit. Yeah. And maybe just make. You know, in this, I know that there's a particular instance that we're looking at right now. And maybe for that instance, we can just say, you know, we recommend that this is what. Um, the vendor should do, or this is what we remember. This is what Katesel would like the vendor to do, you know, in this particular case. Um, But something just kind of blanket statement, like whenever, you know, I think we need to kind of, I mean, I think that's a good idea. But I think we should be a little bit more careful with the language that we craft. And so I'm in favor of Nora's suggestion. Okay. Well, I just crafted a statement. We can look at it and we can maybe mull this over. I mean, I think in terms of the concept, is there. Do we have people who agree with this concept or disagree with this concept? I agree with the concept. Okay. Well, we agree with the concept and we should go forth with the concept. I mean, you know, I think in the previous lifetime. Vendors would get people to sign up for the raffle. Face to face. So this is coming up because we're remote. Yeah.  So my, my recommendation was like they can go and get it themselves. They can make their own rule form or just say, email us at info at what to, what to what and then we'll see what C what C. Yeah. I agree. So, can we vote on this statement for just now and then we will, you know, Okay. So we want to vote on whether we approve of the statement. It is. of members and non-member event registrants without their express permission. Right. And then we will suggest that the person who wants to give out the Scott, the freebies will do a Google form on their own. Yeah. I like that. I mean, I don't think we need to tell them what they ought to do it because there's probably a lot of different ways they can do it. I think if we state this, this much, then that means that, oh, they have to find another way. So we need to vote on this since it's just going to be like, it's an interim. Thing. If we vote, if we all agree, does everybody kind of feel like this is good? You can do your thumbs up or down if you want to do that. I mean, just from a general point of view for now, because we need to get through this. Yeah. Situation. Okay. I'm good. Okay. Okay. Okay. So let's go with, yeah. Sorry, I'm good with it as well. I'm just devil's advocate here. You know, what if the vendor came back and said, well, can you ask for their express permission? We're going to ask them to do their own thing. I'm just saying, I'm just saying in terms of the statement that's been presented so far, like we would tell the vendor. This, but then they, you know, what stops them from coming back to us and say, Oh, well, could you please ask for everyone's express permission? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I'm saying that maybe per nor suggestion. I think we think about this a little bit more in crafts than. Right. For the, for the, for the, for the moment. Moment. Let's use this. Okay. Thank you. All right. I think that's good. I don't think we really need to vote on this because it's not. Formal. So we'll just use this for now. Okay. So going back to the agenda. Number seven. Now we're done with all the action items. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you so advocacy summit. We get a 50% off registration. For one person who wants to go to the summit, which is really great. It really fits for adult ed and community college and K-12. Judy used to go all the time. She's still thinking that she might be able to go, but she's had knee replacement surgery and she's still grieving her husband who died recently. She's still thinking that she might be able to go. She might be able to go to the summit. Or maybe find somebody else who would be interested in going. So. We need to know by it's, it's in June, right, Anthony. It's in June. So we don't need to know right away. But if you're interested. Nancy raised your hand. Yes. You're muted Nancy. If you're talking. Oh, sorry about that. Yes. I would definitely be interested in representing the. Diversity, equity and inclusion task force. Okay. Great. And if, if there's other people who are interested, just email us and Nancy, we've noted that you're interested. And we'll see who's who. Who is interested and we'll figure it out. We have lots of time. It's not until June. Just wanted to bring that up. Yeah. Anthony. Two things. One is that it's virtual this year. So it's virtual. And two, you know, they, there is kind of the specification about somebody from the K-12 realm or adult ed. Just because I believe that the advocacy presentations are sort of geared towards those levels of students. So. Yeah, let's, let's see who's interested. But we may, you know, we may want to be a little strategic in terms of who we, you know, think about having attend just because. You know, somebody with the background of K-12 or adult ed, you know, might get, it might be better suited to them because they. You know, those are the levels that we're looking at. Right. So just go ahead. Put this out to the, to the K-12. And the adult ad message boards and see if there's somebody who. I prefer we get a board member to do this because it's that high at a level. And I think we really should get somebody who's on the board who's interested in. This. So. Okay. So we'll, we'll, we'll take people who are interested and we'll figure out how to do this. Cool. Okay. All right. So that's that. Anthony, your number eight. You want to share the screen or not? No, I guess you don't need to know. I'll just talk. Okay. So the, the item is nominations for our spring election. So, first of all, thank you everyone for doing the work so far to gather nominations of interested persons for. The upcoming spring election. Again, this is a great opportunity. The upcoming spring election. Again, this is for the board starting in. Or soon after the. State conference in the fall. So, and we have the variety of positions. All of the levels, the assistance to the chairs would be for the assistance of the level chairs. An assistant secretary. An assistant for the chair. And then the two new positions, the DEI chair. And then the assistant to that chair position. So those are all the positions that we're recruiting. Nominations for. So we just passed the initial deadline of Monday, April 5th. And we actually received at least one nomination for most of those positions, however, not all of those positions. So we just passed the initial deadline of April 5th. And then we're going to be meeting with Susan and we are reopening or extending the deadline for the nominations. So the new deadline will be Monday, April 19. And I think we really have to be very. Kind of hard and fast with that deadline, only because Susan and I will need some time to. Work in memberly to create the ballot that will go out to the board. We'll be able to provide some information and photos and things like that. So. So again, the, the deadline has been extended for another 10 days or so. So we're asking that you sort of. Keep asking among your colleagues. You know, to, for them to consider nominating themselves for a position for the board. the nomination form itself. All of the positions are listed there. There's also a link to the descriptions for the positions that we have. And then there's also a link actually to a candidate statement, if somebody needs some inspiration for crafting one of those for themselves. But basically that's kind of where things stand at the moment. So we're very close actually to getting at least one nomination per each of those positions. We just need to kind of a final push for gathering more nominations as best we can. So any questions about that? Margie has a question. Margie has a question. Can you challenge which one have only one or most of them have only one, but who has zero? Right, most of them have only one. There are a couple that have two. And then the ones that don't have any at all are the IEP level assistant and the IG chair assistant. But all the other ones we have at least one, yeah. Bentley. I did, I've been emailing folks or people around. So Bentley knows we've been in Communicado, so. Yeah, and Prima said she's been trying but she doesn't know what to do. I know, yeah. We need to find some more. We're looking for the assistant chair because we have the person moving up and then y'all is moving up. So we, but we need maybe from the IGs themselves, Bentley, maybe somebody. Yeah, we have our next meeting on Monday, so we'll address that and then go start looking. Reagan's asking a question. I'll adjust that question to Nirmala in a minute, Reagan. That's a different. Susan, can I just follow up with Bentley's, with Bentley? So is there anything, I mean, what are folks hearing, you know, when you have these discussions with folks? I mean, is there any hesitation that we can address on people's parts or are people? So you're speaking about my question of finding someone to do two, right? To do what? Teaching English in the workplace because I've been in that role also for two years and I, in that email I had written you. I said, we're looking for someone to step in to be that coordinator position as well. So Bentley, this is only. It doesn't go in the ballot. Yeah, this is only the elected position. So we're only talking about the IG chair assistant. Yeah, so there has not been any discussion on that. So only, I was referring to the other one. Got it, okay. So critical for us is that we find somebody to run in that position. Yeah, and I'm happy also. I mean, if you have folks or, you know, actually for any of the positions really, I mean, if you have folks and if you want them, you know, I'm happy to talk to them. If you want to put me in touch with people who are, you know, have questions or curious about something on the board. Yeah, yeah, glad to do that. Okay, so to get Reagan's question here about financial standing, I think any Katesel member should know our financial standing. And that's why we're being transparent with you as a board. So that's my opinion. I don't know what other people's opinion is to share with a membership of how we're doing financially. I think it's important for people to know. Well, as a nonprofit, it's public record anyway, so. Right, so I think you can share it, Reagan. That's my thought. Okay, great. So what Norm Lush shared in the very beginning, just, you know, where we're at right now, I took a note on that. I can just post that in that message board question. I would, that it won't really explain to people. I mean, I think it needs to have a description about what that all means, because I don't think anybody looking at, without Norm Lush's explanation of it, I'm not sure people would really understand it, but I guess you could. I mean, we're not, we're... Yeah, I mean, I don't mean like, I didn't take a screenshot or something. I just had like the number. She has the PowerPoint in the chat box. Okay. Can you post that again? But my concern is that somebody looks at that, and they might not understand what it means without some imagination. So I think members are welcome to join this meeting, right? I don't know if they come. We haven't given them the Zoom link, so they can't really come to this meeting. But it might be good, maybe we could do a little audio nirmal on that PowerPoint with what it means. Sure, I'm happy to do that, because I know just by looking at the slides, some people may just say, huh? So there's gotta be a little bit of an explanation. Margie's got her hand up. Yeah, it was just a question. I think that part of the issue is that the context that Susan was talking about is that, where we were before versus where we are now. Meaning, if you just looked at it, it may not look like we're in that good of shape, and we still have work to do, but relatively speaking, we're on much firmer footing than we were before. And so you wanna make sure that we give some context around those numbers to show how we've been increasing our membership, how we've been lowering our debt and how we're on our way up, as opposed to where we were before. So I think the numbers on their own do need that narrative. So maybe Nirmal and I could do a little short video. Five minute video, I'm going through that. And then you could post that, Regan. How's that? Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Okay, we'll do that. Or if I may suggest the one that I just presented, you know how this is recording at this time? Is it possible to have that captured, just that little short video clip, so we can have reinventing? Good idea. Let's do that. I will take care of that. And then just share out the link. You'll do that. You can just share out the link. I will post the MP4, it's going to be an MP4 file, I'll post it on the board message list and then the board members can share with their constituents. Susan, can I suggest a sort of step that might make that easier is you could, we could post that on our private YouTube channel if you want, which is unlisted and we could then give people the link. That's typical. Share a link, yeah. I think it makes more sense to share a link as opposed to uploading a big video file. That's what we'll do, give us a week or two, okay? Thank you. And coming back to the previous point, I'm pretty sure, Nora, you can jump in here, but I'm pretty sure members are allowed to attend board meetings. They just have to request it and we would give them access to do so. They're not barred from attending board meetings if they want to. No, I think they have to register, but Marcia, do they even see that they can register for a board meeting? I think that they do, it's listed under events. I put everything under on the calendar and then they go to, but then the question is whether it's open to board members only or whether everyone can come. But I don't know. It's just, I have to set up the event that way. And I don't remember on the top of my head if I made it only for board members, which I could have done, but if it's open for all members, then any member can show up. It's just board members, right? One time where we had to have Joan get the link separately, because she was a non-member. Yeah, so it's definitely set up for board members right now. And personally, I think that's the way it should be, but people can ask, like people can send a- I enjoyed it. Joan asked to add, so we gave her the link. So I think that's another way to do it. I don't know who would wanna come here just to listen in on all this stuff. Exactly. That's what we hope the board members will communicate to members what's going on. But if they wanna come, they can. All right, so I wanna give a shout out to all of you guys, because you have really made a difference to continue to publish this quarter. I mean, I can't tell you, we have so many new members and so many events. And I'll get to that in a minute, Reagan. And I just wanna give a shout out to everybody that you've done a really, really good job at your jobs this year. I really appreciate you. And we have a new ELLEIG coordinator. Elsa, do you wanna talk about that for a minute? Elsa here, I think she's here. She probably is on the, she's probably like, oh, I didn't know I was gonna talk. No, okay, maybe she's not here. Anthony, you're muted. Yeah, she was here, but now I don't see her in the participant list. Okay, well, anyhow, we have a new coordinator for ELLEIG, which is, who can tell me what that means? English, literacy, language, educators? No, no, no, no. Emerging literacy, emerging, it has to do with. It is emerging literacy, ESL, right? Yeah. English, there you go. Limited English? No, no, no, no. No, emerging literacy. I will tell you in just one moment. Okay. So Gretchen is maybe not here. I thought she was coming. I wanted to say hello and welcome, but anyhow, she's new and Bentley will get her organized. And then, literacy and limited education. Okay, limited education, emergent literacy, limited education. So we have that person coming on. And I also, this is also Elsa B, she put in the board report that she wanted to talk about this, but since she's not here, I will let Regan talk. She has another question, concerned about community college level position. Did you want to talk, Regan, about that? I can ask real quick, yeah, sure. So I'm just a little bit concerned because my level assistant or my assistant chair, like we're in communication sometimes, but like he's never attended a meeting. And I don't know, like I'm kind of concerned for like what happens next or what I should be doing about this or the level of participation. Yeah, I have like reached out and we do sometimes talk, but like, yeah. Meet together. Yes, I just keep pushing. Yeah, see what you can do to get involved. Yeah, thank you. And if you have problems, let me know. Regan, it's Anthony. If, why don't you, can you email me too? You know, I'm incoming president. And so I don't know if that means anything, but maybe that can help. So we can talk about, we can talk about what happens in the fall. Yeah, it does directly, it does directly affect you. It does? Okay. Yeah, we can do the incoming. Okay, so we'll come back if Elsa shows back up. San Diego, is San Diego here in the house? Chapter. They requested our current financial report, which we do. Okay, Ryan, Ryan, is it Ryan or Ryan? You can, Ryan. Yeah, I just was, I was going through our old treasurer's reports and I realized I hadn't had one for a few years. So that's what that request was for. Okay, well, we do this every meeting. So. I know I just had one specifically for like, that our chapter, I kind of asked because I was confused. So, so because we were in such big debt, we could not give chapters any seed money this year. But we're coming, hopefully coming out of that debt after the fall conference. So once we get out of debt and we actually have, we have to have our reserve of 50,000 for the conference in 2022. Once we have that, we can start looking at seed money for chapters and IGs and such. Anthony, you raised your hand. Go ahead. I was just gonna say, Ryan, since you said that the person was asking about, you know, from looking at something from a couple of years ago. So I would just say that the finances that could you saw have been consolidated like quite a bit since then. And to Susan's point where, you know, really the, it's a very different kind of financial or it's moving in the direction of a very different financial structure than how Cattiso used to be, like San Diego or the chapters used to have their own bank accounts and things like that, that doesn't exist anymore. So maybe if your chapter person has some like specific questions that we can help out with, you know, they can always email Norm La or you know, email cattiso.cattiso.org. But really, I think things have been greatly consolidated since, you know, if you were looking at something from a few years back, so. Yeah, that's my question. That answers? Yeah, that's helpful. Okay, okay. Because I was looking a few years back and thinking, what happened to the years between then and now? So we had no money and we almost went bankrupt, but we kind of dug ourselves out and we're still working on it with everybody's help. Yeah, okay, thanks. That's the gist, I think. And we're getting there. So it's a slow process, but thank you for the question and thank you for being here. And I think we're trying to be way more transparent with our reports. Okay, so thank you again. I feel like more board reports, I'm reading more and more board reports.  So thank you for filling out those board reports and keep at it. Now we're at number 10. Marcia, you have about 10 minutes to talk about everything. Alrighty, Ru, I have a few hats to show you from different, okay, I'm gonna, may I share the screen, madam? You may, let me stop. All right, you're good. If I can do the sharing now. And what does it say I'm sharing? Let's see, I haven't picked it. You're sharing your calendar, is that helpful? Yeah, okay, well, obviously I didn't share the right thing. I guess I clicked the button before. I knew what I could share. How about if I do this one? Yeah. Okay, so a few ideas from my hats as the web manager, professional developer coordinator, event registrar and so on. So as far as the web goes, wait, I'm going in the wrong direction. Okay, so on our homepage, major things that have changed, we've got 2,000 members. I changed the graphic to show that. We hit seasons goal and that is cool. Upcoming and events are always changing and I've always updated those calendar events. We have a lot of graphic ads that advertise different events. Under communication, you will also see the newsletter. So that is Karak McDonald's first issue and that's issue number one of volume 54. So take a look at that under communication. Under resources for online training, we're keeping up with some of the recorded sessions that people are doing, not everybody records. Some people do record and then they get around to submitting their recordings. And so then I create a webpage that will allow our Catisa members to go there and look at the recordings. Spring conference, of course, is that being our big push. And so Spring conference has caught a few different web pages and I'm always working on those. We work a lot on trying to get the advertisers and exhibitors and we're still, I think, looking for more people to advertise for us, right, Margie? And Song and so forth. And our next push will be to bring up the program. So I'm working on some pages that will help us highlight our plenaries, which we have one of on Friday on DEI. And we have another one on Saturday, which will be more towards transforming with the technology and online learning. Last time our board meeting met, we talked about how to establish a chapter web presence. So behind the scenes, I've been doing a lot of thinking and planning and getting input from our web advisory and other people who are interested in how we're gonna set that up. So I actually put together a paper on how we're going to get established. So that the various chapters, which are gonna be moving over, we'll have some sort of basic plan. This just tells why we're doing it and which I did actually discovered that there are a lot of websites out there, some of them which are managed and some of them we have no idea who's managing them, which is one of the major problems about having websites with Katesel's name on it, but nobody's minding the shop. So our idea is to bring them all in. So I have learned by working with the various committees. We've done the spring virtual committee for conferences and the state and all that. So with all that, I've learned how we can set that up with creating a project slash committee, which is the nomenclature of memberly. And then we set up project chairs which have their own little ins and outs. And then we set up pages. So I will create one main page and a grid for that chapter and share it out to the chairs of the project and so on and so forth. So I've already, because Lois Padres is the one that's been most forward thinking and they've got their act together, I started with them and I am going to figure out how, what are the possible things that everyone needs to know? So I figured that after our spring convention, which is gonna be what, May, then starting in June that all the chapters, which are ready to start thinking about moving over, that we'll have some get-togethers, which I'm calling training. And I just brainstorm a bunch of things that I think that would be helpful for everyone to know in that regard. Okay, so that's sort of where I've been. That's what my action has been on trying to set something up for our future. All right, so far so good. We're gonna move on to our next topic, which is, okay, let's see which way, which way does my mouse go? And okay, as you recall, the events are always on the calendar. I've got board meetings.  All the PD events are on the calendar and of course the spring virtual. I'm proud to say that since the last board meeting, February 5th, we've had 17 professional development events by our interest groups and chapters and levels. And then we've also had our interest group council meet a couple of times. So we're pretty active, these IGs. We rock and we gather lots and lots of things. So I just wanna let you see briefly, all of the kinds of things that we have offered from our katisel.org, opportunities for people to get professional development. So I think it's just really great. And I've got two whole pages of this stuff. This is basically all the stuff that you will find in both the calendar and on the events as the co-coordinator of TOC. I'm proud to say that we've had one meeting every single month since December, December, January, February, March. We've already had all of these really excellent workshops, lots of interaction from members and non-members. Upcoming, we've got one in each of the four coming months, but I just put down the next two which are April and May. So some IGs as you might guess are a little more active than others. But anytime anybody has a question about how to do an event and how to get people to come, I'm always there to help people think about it. So I do wanna remind everyone that if you'd like to do an event, large or small, it could be very simple, casual, coffee, clatch sort of a thing or a meeting to just huddle and try to figure out what is it we wanna do or a full-blown webinar type of a thing. It doesn't really matter. I will help you with it. What you need to do is to reserve the room and a date on the Catesel calendar because I tried very hard not to have things that will be in conflict with another Catesel event. So I've tried to put all the Catesel events right there on the calendar for us to see whether it's something you're interested personally and going to or not. I put that there so it helps to organize who's got the Zoom room doing what. Okay, so that form, I will give a link to this to our secretary that will be on there and we will be able to see all the great things that Catesel is doing. So if you have any questions, feel free to say so. Any questions? Any questions from Marcia? Any questions, any comments? If not, we're basing you. So we'll move on then to Nancy, social media and DEI news for 10 minutes. Yeah, thank you. Let's see, Susan, may I share the screen? Yeah, I'm not sharing. Am I sharing? No, I'm not sharing. I stopped. Okay, let me see if I can share. Yeah, it doesn't look like I've been made a cohost. You don't need to be a cohost. You just need to click on share screen. Okay, so share sound. Okay, let's share screen. Can everybody see mine? Yep, yep. Okay, thank you. All right, so first of all, I have a couple of things so I'll split my time evenly between the two social media and diversity. I'll start first food social media. I did wanna give a shout out to Dr. Emmie Min. I went over the social, I went over the Facebook. What I do is we have four social media platforms. We have Facebook LinkedIn as of a couple of weeks ago. We also have Twitter and Instagram. What I'll do is I'll take you through the posts and what sort of hits they're generating. She had 52 slash nine. Dr. Emmie Min, one of our board members, her event is on the 23rd. It meant that she got nine post clicks which meant that her page was shared. So I think there'll be a direct correlation hopefully between the number of hits and engagement and attendance. Let me see, why is it not letting me percent? Okay, if I wanted to advance my, I need to stop this. The bottom there, there's a little arrow that goes to the right. I think that will advance for you. Okay, you know what I'll do is I'll go back and I'll, now I'll share it and it might, let's go back. Okay, all right, so now I'm back on. Okay. You're not sharing though. Yes. So now I'm back. So it's not as, oh, so the second, the second. Yes. So this particular, this is a post that was from Anthony. This one had 57 and zero, what I find for the events whether it's the Tide Conference or something like announcing an event or a deadline that we get a lot of, we reach a lot of people but we don't get a lot of post engagement. But it's in the top for this, top 10 for this month. Next, I also wanted to give a shout out to our inland chapter, the Bay Area chapter and the first time that they were on Facebook, they generated around, they got another one or two post engagement clicks. So let's see, and I'm getting that thing where I can't advance my screen again. So I will just do it manually and I'll show you my screen in a second. Sorry about that. And I'll go back. All right, so I'm sharing now. So yes, so long story short, if I go back to the first one, this was in April, so far this is in the lead out of all of our events that have been posted. And by lead, I'm looking at not only the crowd that's reached, but the amount of engagement afterwards. Then I went over briefly Anthony's and then the inland chapter. This one, this was the second time that Marcia and Marcia had a post, it goes out every Wednesday during prime time which is 11 o'clock on Facebook. The second time it went and we tried something different. Marcia, when she filled out her Google form, she said I could help create an image. So this image garnered maybe 20 more, reached 20 more people and the engagement level, we had 125 and four. Bentley and that chapter, Orange County, an insane amount of engagement. Whenever they have a post, whether it's a really long-winded post, a lot of images, no matter what, Orange County, their chapter, whenever they have an event, we get 19 plus engagements, which means that in addition to reading the post, members are sharing the post or registering or going to a website. So I'm also looking at post engagement. Now, Margie's, the Catiso Journal also got a lot of foot traction, 123 were reached and 123 were reached for engagements. I'm fast forwarding now to our conference, 181 during its debut. So again, keep an eye on the graphics that you use because sometimes there is a correlation between the graphics that you use and the amount of foot traffic you get to your event. As far as social media news, I've mentioned to Las Padres, the chapter to which I belong and the board, which I also am a member of, that we will be meeting to, I'll be meeting with the various chapter coordinators. I had worked with Anthony on setting up a social media needs analysis. So I'll be making my rounds to you shortly to find out what your social media coordinator and you as a chapter coordinator, what your needs are. At present, I'm finalizing a 42 minute interview that I had with Randy. I will be interviewing Dr. Emmie Min of USC for a board profile. And I'm recruiting prospects for a diversity profile series. Lastly, last two things, I've launched Catiso LinkedIn and I will give you an update on the, let me switch really quickly to our social media, our mobile app. This is saved here. Well, actually I'll go quickly to our, the Google response. So far, we've had, we have had eight official to unofficial. I'm talking about in the Empire and in one other. So as far as the social media guide and the request form, the requests vary. And the majority of the requests are time sensitive. I wanna say with the case with Marsha, Marsha was generous and wanted me to help with a, she said I could create a graphic. And as a result, we garnered 20 to 30 more people and also raised our engagement. Now I just quickly go to our app. This is our mobile app that I'm working on. I hope to get it to its next iteration before the next state conference. So you'll be able to go to your member access. You'll be able to go to your profile. You'll be able to go register for a conference. Any one of the amazing PD events that Marsha has put together. And there's also a donate button for Katisa Ed Foundation. So that wraps up the social media aspect. And I'll get back to the PowerPoint. And diversity, my other hat. As far as professional development, I've assembled a panel and workshops for Saturday. We will have three workshops on Saturday. And in synchrony and in alignment with all the amazing work that Marsha is doing for professional development, I will be assembling, oh, I'll be assembling a professional development webinar series for the summer. So I will be recruiting members, board members who would like to put together diversity, equity, inclusion, web series. One of the first that we'll be putting together is one that I'll be working on with Nicole, Nicole Brown Mercer on diversity, equity and inclusion materials. And let's see, I'll go to the next one for advocacy. I will be reaching out to members to join the diversity, equity and inclusion task force. Right now it's pretty lonely up here. It's right now, it's just a one person task force. So I will be reaching out to you in all shapes and forms, whether it's by way of social media, phone call, email. Secondly, and importantly, but it's not out of order. I will be working with colleagues on drafting a statement pertaining to the AAPI hate crimes as a former member of the White House Initiative for AAPIs. I look forward to drafting that statement. We were able to post that, we'll be posting that statement, oh, I don't, we'll be posting that statement shortly before AAPI month and I'll work with Susan, Anthony and Marcia for a strategic spot for that. It might be where the other statements are. And I worked with Anthony and Monica on promoting the DEI grant in the March Coutissel update addendum. Quite frankly, the last charge that I was given was I needed to raise $823 before that grant. In the grant, we are having, for the grant, we have six applicants and the grant I designed so that we could train teachers on best practices and diversity, equity, inclusion. Ideally, we wanted one from each level and in my mind, when I wrote the grant, I wanted to make sure that we could not only train pre-service and in-service teachers, but that we could meet once a month before the state conference so that by the time we have the state conference next year, we have five different diversity panels, right? One from each level. So that was the goal of the grant and the other sort of caveat is that I'll be recruiting members throughout the organization to help train them. And then I think I'm just about, as far as research, I've submitted two book chapters to TESOL with regard to diversity, equity, inclusion. One could TESOL journal article proposal on social justice, diversity, equity, inclusion. And I had a chance to co-author a book review with Kara. And the book review is important because it's one of the books that we'll be using for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion grant. And then I believe that's it. So thank you for your time and I will be reaching out to you to donate to our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Task Force of the grant because we're training teachers. And secondly, I'll be reaching out to you to join the task force. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Nancy. And now we're gonna go back to Regan Clark who wants to report on the AB 705 initiative that's been going on very heavily in the chat box in the discussion forums with the community college. Regan, are you there to talk to us? Yes, I am, yeah, I can do that. So there was quite a bit of conversation that started a couple of weeks ago as the toolkit for AB 705 came out. So I'm not personally like super up to date or understand all of the ins and outs. So Sidney Rice actually put together a little blurb for me to kind of explain just so that I could update the board on what's going on. And Susan asked me to share. So I will do that now. Okay, so Sidney says that the current toolkit can be misleading for people trying to set up compliance with AB 705 as the focus is really on English and math. Some changes were suggested that would clearly highlight the difference between English and math and then ESL. So they said that some changes should be easy to make but will take some time. So they're expecting to maybe see changes by July. And then this committee had also asked for a separate toolkit to be produced which will just be taking, that will just take even longer. So she says then the issue of the plan, okay, the issue of the plan which is due by colleges in July. So the plan can include an assessment to be used for placement if the college so chooses. The committee and the CCCCO are in the process of vetting new assessments to make recommendations to the Board of Governors Assessment Committee. So she says this process is all still a little bit unclear to her and they're just trying to set up times for the committee to see different presentations on the assessments that are being considered but they're not quite sure about that yet. Yes, and then, so Catherine Wada or Kathy Wada is putting forward a resolution to the Academic Senate to remove restrictions on ESL classes being counted towards the ability of ESL students to earn certificates for credit classes. The current wording on records is restrictive as it says just basic skills and ESL courses and the resolution is simply asking for policy to be reflective of this distinction. So another suggestion that was made was that ESL students would be counted as population in terms of student equity and achievement instead of a submit set. And then that would allow them to receive services and ESL programs would be able to access more funding. So that is the update. And the why this is so important is it's really an equity issue for community college students and K-12 students go into community college and community college students go into college university. And if there is a problem with English is their third, fourth, maybe fifth language and it's not remedial. And there is a fight going on about that always. And so it's really important that we support and we're glad to have Sydney and Kathy Wada because they're very supportive. But if you are in a community college we would ask that you please talk to your academic Senate with it to support this resolution. Yeah, and they were also asking Katesol for our support and to contact the, was it the academic Senate? To submit a report or to submit some kind of statement. Yeah, and we need somebody to write that statement that would be either you or Kathy Wada or Sydney and then we can approve the statement or not but we really can't write the statement. I'm definitely not the person. I mean, Susan, you and I talked about this. I'm definitely not the person to write that statement but just from what was going on in the message board nobody was really willing to write that statement. So... Well, maybe you could ask Sydney to do it and then we can approve it. Okay. I think it's important. So, and we can do that via email. Yeah, okay. And then Sydney, yeah, I'm working with Sydney and Kathy and probably Meryl Siegel to be talking about this and not one of the level sessions. Yeah. Thank you. If we could get something written and then we can approve it via email that will really help the process. Separately, yes, yes. I'm glad that you're on it. That's great. Thank you. Susan. Yes. Can I just make a suggestion because Reagan, I kind of, I looked at the conversation that was going on on the message board about AB 705 and it did occur to me, you know, there were a lot of people who were writing on the board with their ideas and thoughts and what have you. So, you know, one other idea that came to mind kind of after the fact was what about if, you know, in essence, we sort of made it like a collaborative Google document. Like if people, I mean, if people are already like typing things out on the message board anyway, maybe they would be willing to, you know, just kind of share those thoughts in a collaborative document and then maybe that's something that Katesel could then or you, you know, in the lead could look at with, you know, maybe Sydney and Kathy and Meryl and Susan, you know, because then you kind of have the bones of a letter and then it's a matter of just kind of refining it a bit and then just saying, well, I mean, if there's probably a process to say that Katesel supports you. We have to vote. Yeah, we'll have to vote. Yeah, they're right. But I think just in terms of assembling something, you know, let's take advantage of the technology that's out there and just see if maybe if people would be willing to kind of, you know, add a few pieces here and there. And then it's not left to one person to write it. It's something that's being collaboratively built. So just a thought. It sounds like you have a good start right there, Regan, was what you just read to us. So I would suggest doing that and then we can do a vote because I think it's really important. Yeah, yeah, and I did. I reached out to basically everybody who was talking on that message board and asked, you know, trying to put a panel together of who would be willing to come together. And I, yeah, those are the three people that I'm gonna end up working with, I think, for that. And I'm passionate about this too. So, I mean, I'm not involved anymore, but I'm still passionate about it. So I'll be happy to read what you're writing and make some decisions. Yeah, thank you so much. Okay, so I think Kimi and Sung are not here from what I see. But the... Yeah, some such people will come after her class ends at 3.30. Right, so yeah, her class ends at 3.30. Okay, so let's go, let's come back to her. We'll come back, she'll be in here momentarily. So, do you wanna go to 13, Lily and Nora? Go ahead. So one thing we've been doing lately on the executive committee is trying to look through our bylaws. And basically what we recognize is that our bylaws are not entirely up to date with the way that we do things. Like basically, each of us comes in as a new leader, we learn what we can from the previous person and we just sort of run with it. But we wanna make our bylaws reflect the way the organization actually works and vice versa. If there's something in our bylaws that we should be doing but are not doing, we wanna make sure that we're aware of that. So we are recruiting volunteers who would be willing to look through the bylaws with Nora and I and make some comments about areas that either you think need to be changed or things you notice in the bylaws that maybe we're not doing and we need to be more aware of. This is something that only the full membership can vote on in October at our business meeting. But looking through this project, the bylaws are about 60 pages long and there's a considerable number of things that could be changed. So we wanna get a jumpstart on that. And I think it would be really useful to get volunteers from different levels or different types of positions because we each have our own perspective. Like Nora and I can speak to what the secretary does or does not do, but we don't necessarily know that much about some of the other positions. So any and all are welcome for this not super fun but pretty important job. Very fun, don't you love getting bylaws? It's the first thing you're supposed to do when you join a board, read the bylaws. Anyway, they're eye-opening. So yeah, I recommend folks to come in and as Lily said, a variety of perspectives would be super helpful. And yeah, we can crack jokes and share silly words and try to make it fun because you have to have humor. So she'll be email the secretary. Put your name in chat right now. Okay. Yeah, if you're interested, put your name in chat. You can also email us at katisalsecretary at gmail.com and don't feel like you have to be an expert on the organization. I don't really feel like any of us are. You can provide the perspective on the position that you do and that would be useful to us. Thank you. So I think Song is here now. Song, are you here? Yes, I'm here. Hi. Thank you so much for coming. I'm sorry that you're class. Yeah, sorry, I'm late. Rushing, no, we're rushing you from one meeting to another which is not good, but we're glad you're here. So do you want to give a report on the spring virtual conference? Yes, it is the spring virtual conference is coming along. Right now, everything is pretty much said. We've accepted all the proposals and all the acceptance and the decline letters went out. And now currently our program chair, Denise and Margie who's our platform coordinator, they're working together to set the in-event, our platform up for the conference. We are, as of now, let me go ahead and do the count. We have 188 people who registered as of now. We hope to have more. So if you are, thank you so much for promoting the conference. If you are gonna be at the conference presenting the level forum, please make sure you register because you as a board member, you get to register for $20. And as a presenter as well, it's the same rate. So I know some of you haven't been registered. So I think what Margie's gonna do, she's gonna take a look at the information and she's gonna send us the list so we can kind of send you a reminder if you haven't registered for the conference yet. Now Kimi and I are continuously meeting every Thursday from 11 30 to 12 30 and Sunday from six to seven Pacific standard time. So if you have any questions or you wanna pop in, welcome to do that. But I think it's gonna be a wonderful conference. I'm super excited. And thank you for everyone's help. I mean, we couldn't have done it without your help. So thank you so much. That's it. Thank you for all your work you're doing on the conference. Did you say 186? 188, as of now. 188 people a month before the conference. That's pretty incredible. Great, wonderful. Thank you. Susan. Oh, yeah. Sorry, I'm remembering when Song was speaking, Nancy was talking about our social media activity. And so, the conference is being promoted via social media.  But yeah, I mean, that's a great way to promote Katesel as well as via social media too. And this is the perfect event to be promoting, so. And we're highlighting our members, which is really good. I mean, this is completely from the membership and it's really nice to see them. So you guys have done a really good job, really organized. So Anthony and I, so we have Nirmala for the 2022 conference and we're gonna start working on that in tandem with the 2021 State Conference, which we still don't have, we're working, we have four. You wanna talk about it, Anthony? Sure, so Susan and I met with four folks on Monday, I think it was Monday or Tuesday, I can't remember. Some people who responded to a survey that we posted in one of the updates, I believe, if people were interested in participating or being a part of any of the conference committees for the variety of conferences coming up, so starting with the state in the fall, but also thinking about regionals coming back in 2022 and then also the in-person state conference now in Pasadena in 2022 as well. So we met with some four people, kind of talked through the process of being a chair for conference committee, for state conference and so we're waiting to hear back from those people about their level of interest. So again, that would be for the state in the fall, which will be virtual. We also, well, yeah. So we're waiting to hear back from those people. We also have a few folks too who, we wanted to kind of first see about finding a chair or chairs for that conference, but we also have some other people who expressed interest in joining, potentially joining a conference committee as well. So those may be some other people who would be on board for the fall conference as well. So I'll leave it at that, Susan, if there's anything you wanna add. No, I just, I also wanna give a shout out to Carrie and Billy who are doing the YouTube channel because you don't know what they're doing behind the scenes, but they're working really, really hard. They are taking all the presentations from the state conference, captioning them and putting them on YouTube because we promised our members a ridiculous amount of time, five years, to see the videos because the platform told us we could do that, come to find out. Now it ends in September. So we're trying to make that available to them and we are gonna have another option for people who didn't go to that conference that wanna pay for the access to those videos for $20 and we think that will be successful because we have already had two people pay for it where there's no place to go. They just saw it on the website and they spent the $20 and we had to refund them. But yeah, so we think that'll be popular. So that's in the works and I wanted to thank Carrie and Billy for doing all that work. Thank you. Thank you. So I think we're at the end of the meeting here. I've got a few reminders, Susan. Okay. Besides, just the regular ones. So the regular ones are please fill out your volunteer hours and the meeting reflection and thanks to those of you who've done that already. Okay, can we talk about the board report for a minute because I'm not finding them all and I think some people are maybe doing it but not putting it in the folder. That is why I added this. Thank you. So if you see on the agenda, it says please file your board report in the appropriate folder. So I put a link, those are both hyperlinks. So the board report is a hyperlink to the template that you can copy and the appropriate folder is a hyperlink to the big folder of board reports. And once you click on that inside, it's divided into smaller categories. So I was just sending that out again in case you've lost track of the link. Happy to help you if you don't know the right place to put it but there's no need to send it to us directly. Nora and I have been getting some of them and I know we're teachers and we like to, you know, know that we've sent something to the right place but we trust you, no need to send the board report to Nora and I. You can just put it directly in the folder. If you're having trouble finding that folder, feel free to reach out, we can help with that. And maybe when you ask for the board report next time, mention all of that because, I do. I don't get any, if I don't see it in that folder, I don't read it and if it's not read, you don't get on the agenda if you have an issue. I did put it there, I think I put it there every time but I know the email contains a lot of information. So maybe I'll put it in a special color or something. I'll try to- That seems to work. People aren't color blind, they can see red. And the other reminder I wanted to make was that we've started adding the board meeting minutes and the video link to the recording. Thanks to Kerry for your help with that, Kerry and Billy. And so now if you want to get either the minutes or the recording of the meeting, you can find both of those in the same place. It's inside member leap and I have sent out instructions previously about how to do it but I know it can be a little bit confusing. So I made a screencast that literally shows you how to navigate the member leap site and where to click until you get to that place. So I put a hyperlink to that as well, if you're not sure how to get there. The screencast should show you how to access that and thanks to Marcia for that idea of putting the link to the recording directly inside the minutes. I think that's awesome. So it's very easy to find both in the same place. So a lot of stuff is happening online. So the chapter events, I think we just have to refer to the website. There's so many events going on that I can't list them all but we will have our spring conference May 7th, 8th, right, so? And it's gonna be a good one so we hope you're all gonna be there. We need to talk about the board meeting. So we're gonna have a virtual conference and I think we can still plan our board meeting before the conference. The way we did it last year is that we had the final board meeting for this year's board in October. Then we had the conference and then we had the new board meeting. And at the conference at the town hall, that is where I give Anthony the power. Or not the town halls, it's a business meeting, it's a business meeting, right? Yeah, at the town hall I give you guys all your certificates for all your hard work and at the business meeting I give Anthony virtually the gavel. And he becomes president. And it's important that we kind of all be there for this because Anthony's been really good on helping me a lot. So I was thinking since we were gonna have the conference on Halloween weekend, maybe February, Friday, October 28th for the last board meeting virtually, what do you guys think? I'm sorry, can you repeat those dates, Susan? So I was thinking October 28th or 29th, maybe the 29th, because the 28th is probably a Thursday. So I was thinking- Is the conference we're thinking is the following weekend, right? Yeah, but we haven't decided that yet. Right. You wanna do it or we could do it in mid-October. I mean, I'm open. When I give Anthony the gavel is totally, anytime. It's really hard, but you know, I'm ready. So we needed to decide when to have that meeting. So do you think mid-October might be better? Yeah, I do. Oh, somebody just signed into, somebody just signed into Catesaul. The gavel switchover happens app right at the end of the conference. Yeah, the gavel switchover happens at the business meeting at the conference. The last board meeting is the week. It's usually the Thursday of the conference, but we're not having the conference. So we should do it in mid-October, I think. Good idea. Good. What do you think, the last board meeting? And then we'll have a break, we'll have the conference, and then we'll have the gavel virtually. I mean, I'm not gonna be able to see them. Maybe by then we'll be able to get together and I can hand it to them, I don't know. I'm vaccinated, Susan. You and me can meet up somewhere like in, I don't know, San Jose or something. And we can take a picture of you and then over the gavel. Susan, I do have one question. So beyond, or including this October meeting, you have this, also this August 27 meeting listed. Is that still happening as well? Yes. Okay, you keep saying the last meeting, but we actually have the August and the October. But this one is not in schedule, so we need to do that so that people can put it in their calendar. Because it's not gonna be Thursday from 11 to four. No. And I just want you to know, somebody has signed me out of the Catticell account. So if I lose the connection, you'll know why. I think somebody tried to sign in as Catticell at catticell.org. So, okay. So mid-October, Friday would be what date? Let's put it down because you guys need to put it in your calendar. So August 27th is the board meeting beforehand. Well, we could do August 27th. No, I mean, I'm saying that's- After August 27th, we need to find a date in October. So why not October 22nd? Yeah. Yeah, October 22nd works. Let's do that. Everybody okay with October 27th? Same time? Okay. Same time, the 11 to four? Or do you mean- No, no, no, no. We're not doing a meeting from 11 to four. Thank you very much. Two to four, two to four, two to four, two to four. I'll put it on the agenda now that I know. I just, it's been an empty spot. So what did we say, the 22nd? Yeah, two to four. Yeah. That'll be my last board meeting. And then Anthony, huh? Last full board meeting. Yes, the business meeting will happen at the conference and then we'll have the town hall and the business meeting. And then I'll be your past president. Okay, so I just want to say, I feel really good about this organization right now. I feel like people are really engaged with us. The board is engaged with us. Our membership is engaged with us. The schools are engaged with us. And so I just continually want to say thank you for all that you've done and keep doing it because it's going to take a lot more digging before we get ourselves. We really need to have a reserve of money. You know, TESOL has $4 million in reserve. We have zero. We're just trying to pay our bills every month. So now that we got our bills paid off more or less and we get the 50,000 for the conference then we need to start building so that we have money to spare so we can invest in such. So that's my thoughts. I mean, I have goals and we're meeting them. So let's yay to TESOL. Yay you guys, thank you. I appreciate you. Don't forget to fill out the meeting reflection because I read them and you see that changes to the meeting happen because your suggestions in the meeting reflection. Thank you very much. Anybody else? Anything other? Susan. Yes. One more thing. I know that there's somebody here who's having a birthday today. Did we say anything about that? Today is a birthday. Yeah, today. It's Margie's birthday. Is it? It is. Well, that's what she told me earlier. We had a mealy, a meeting a while back and she told me it was her birthday today. No wonder we are getting along so well for both in the same month. Happy birthday everybody, ready to sing? Turn on your microphones. Microphones on. You might want to stop recording this game. Yeah, let's not stop recording this game. Good idea.