Brothers,
Below you will find an outline of what took place during the January Student Advisory Committee meeting on January 17, 2017. George Ishii of the SWD 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
—January SAC – Minutes 1/17/2017—
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Introduction/Attendance
- Midwest: Sarah Person – Sec/Treas
- North Central: Abigail Johnson – VP for Membership
- Northeast: none
- Southeast: Ariel Clouse – VP for Membership, Evan Schlameuss – VP for Programs, Jerome Hall – Sec/Treas
- Southwest: George Ishii – President, Arjun Jeetan – MAL
- Western: Alyssa Maher – VP, Jake Rocco – MAL
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District Updates
- Midwest
- no update provided
- North Central
- Winter Council Meeting week and a half ago
- Convention in Columbus, Ohio
- Met all FOUR host Chapters (All chapters located in Columbus)
- DLC is next Saturday, in Hope,Indiana
- North East
- n/a
- Southeast
- Winter Council MLK Weekend
- SED Con 2017 Tampa Florida, University of South Florida
- DLC at Vanderbilt February 11th
- Iota Nu Colony at Alabama A&M will be installed
- Southwest
- Busy with convention planning
- Workshop season is about to get underway
- going to be hosting a signing competition
- Western
- DLC – UCLA MLK Weekend (200 People!)
- Had guest presentations with some National Officers
- Tailored workshops to the age of the membership
- Used an app as a digital schedule
- Carpool Karaoke district-wide compilation video
- Workshop to help sec/treas plan certain projects, contact for more info
- Music Leadership Building Project – able to bring up problems and solutions together
- DLC – UCLA MLK Weekend (200 People!)
- Midwest
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SAC Topic #1: Do chapters in your district have local dues in addition to national dues? What are they used for and when are they collected?
- Reach out to Chapters in your District and find out how much their local dues are and what that money goes towards, report back to VPSA
- How does your own Chapter handle local dues?
- The total varies per chapter: $5, $40-$50, $100
- Money goes to:
- General Service Funds
- Chapter Polo shirt
- Buying stoles for graduating seniors
- Sending Delegates to Convention
- Candidate Scholarship (pays for dues)
- Beginning of Year Startup Funds
- Determined to Chapter Vote
- Many chapters have payment plans and priority is given to getting national dues in on time.
- How do you feel about local dues?
- Chapters should vote to approve local dues
- Guidelines for payment plans would be welcome
- Could setup payment plans during the last meetings of the year
- guidelines for how to set these up would be welcome
- Could setup payment plans during the last meetings of the year
- Service funds should be fundraised by Chapter, local dues are for personal Chapter expenses
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National Council Updates
- Met in Orlando, FL for Winter Council at NatCon Hotel
- Marco and Zac are working on a budgeting tool with Headquarters to get Chapters to NatCon
- Rough estimate for 4 people in a hotel room for week with registration is $125 for Convention and $132 for hotel room
- Parking is $16/day
- More to be included in the tool
- February 1st is date for NatCon Website to go live
- Curriculum Committee
- Recorded hour and a half of audio for the KKPsi Presents Podcast
- Will be a part of the National Town Hall at District Conventions
- 75-80% of the way through budget, on track
- Due to growth of National Organization, discussion on whether to suspend the automatic dues increase at NatCon
- KKPsi Presents Podcast to be reformatted into segments
- Will be asking for submissions from all Brothers about their own stories
- Awards
- Jack and Marco have reviewed Leadership Funds
- Solicitation for Boh Makovsky Award, for an outstanding conductor
- Gold Star Recognition – Brothers who have served/passed away during Military Service
- Chapter Petitioning Documents are being scanned into an online database for Chapters to be able to access
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District Feedback/Concerns
- Curriculum Pilot Chapter Feedback:
- Candidates enjoy being able to plan and execute their own fundraiser and service project
- Has given Candidates a more collaborative and inclusive experience
- Western District got feedback that they felt they were growing as leaders, but were less sure of the identity of the fraternity
- lack of focus on chapter, district, and TBS identities
- Curriculum Pilot Chapter Feedback:
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Announcements and Wrap up
- J. Lee Burke are open to all Brothers, not just District Presidents
- A. Frank Martin given to someone with a regional impact
- DSMM top award given to someone with life-long contributions to music