Brothers,
Below you will find an outline of what took place during the December Student Advisory Committee meeting on December 17, 2016. Michael Bradford-Calhoun of the SED took notes for the meeting. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask. You can reach me at zac@kkpsi.org or the whole committee at StudentAdvisory@kkpsi.org.
Keep Striving!
Zac
—December SAC – Minutes 12/17/2016—
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Introduction/Attendance
- Midwest: no representative
- North Central: Justin Jensen – VP for Programs
- Northeast: Shanon Rubin – VP
- Southeast: Michael Bradford-Calhoun – President
- Southwest: George Ishii – President
- Western: Mitch Mikuchonis – President & Alyssa Maher – VP
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District Updates
- Midwest: n/a
- North Central
- Finalizing Convention plan
- Winter meeting here soon
- North East
- Still looking for location for convention
- Winter Council MLK weekend in Lancaster, PA
- Focusing on precinct meetings
- Future discussion on how to get students more involved
- Southeast
- Convention Plan turned in
- Winter Council MLK Weekend
- DLC February 11th @ Vanderbilt
- Moving to Convention Center system after this year for District Convention
- Honda Battle of the Bands – Atlanta, GA Jan 28th
- Big event for bands and KKPSI will have a table present
- Southwest
- Convention Plan in
- MLK weekend for Winter Council
- Spring chapter leadership workshops
- Application for students to present at workshops
- Western
- Moving forward with DLC – 13-15th
- District Officers getting to speak with prospective candidates
- Marching Band setting for their music workshop block
- NIB recording possibilities at district events
- WDC planning
- Western District Ensemble Clinic – inviting high schools to come sit with the reading band
- Jazz Band – up and running
- Seeking host chapter for 2018
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SAC Topic #1: How can both the district and national levels better prepare and encourage students to get to national convention?
- Getting people to NatCon
- Bussing for NatCon
- ZK Chapter – Texas A&M Commerce, hired chartered buses that would pick up other chapters to go to NatCon.
- Start a savings plan
- Bussing for NatCon
- Evaluating the difference of District or NatCon for chapters to understand what they should go to and why
- Make sure Districts are getting information about District and NatCon out now
- RITUAL MORATORIUM is up
- Circulation of ideas to get people to District Conventions and explain how it is different from a national convention
- Rotating Facts about National Business to help Chapters know what will be discussed and have this regularly communicated in the lead up
- Getting people to NatCon
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National Council Updates
- Alabama A&M Colony will be installed after the new year.
- Submit any questions, comments, or concerns to be discussed at the National Council’s Winter Council Meeting by January 10th!
- A lot of chapters missed the December 1st deadline! Redouble efforts to ensure deadlines are being met by your consitutent chapters!
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District Feedback/Concerns
- George asked about OMRS and how it is updated from one year to the next
- This is largely on the chapters as there is not standard officer corps make up or way they can be reached.
- George mentioned it would be nice having chapters with unified messaging accounts across their officers
- Zac gave examples of how some chapters do this with officer email accounts and such. This comes down to effectively doing chapter transitions.
- This is where district councils can focus on building and maintaining databases that can be leveraged.
- George asked about OMRS and how it is updated from one year to the next
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Announcements and Wrap up
- Applications for national office are due January 15th!