The third meeting of the California Language Teachers Association of the 2009-10 school year was held at the Marriott Courtyard Hotel in San Jose. President Carol Moir called the meeting to order at 10:04 a.m. Members present: Carol Moir, President/CCALP/Futures Lewie Johnson, Past President Norman Leonard, President Elect/FLCSD Susan Korsinen, Secretary/CVFLA Sue McKee, Treasurer/Conference Registrar Marge Sotomayor, Membership Chair Paula Hirsch, Conference Chair Lorraine DÕAmbruoso, Executive Director Ruth Ward, FLAGS Heema Sinibaldi, FLAMCO Regina Coston McClintock, FLANC Nadine Elwood, FLAOC Kevin Duffy, FLASCC Jason Becker, FLASH Edith Benkov, FLC-CSU Svetlana Lazarova, IEFLA Alexis Frink, KCLTA Araceli Espinosa, MCLSC Robert Blake, UC Consortium
Members absent: Duarte Silva, CFLP Karen McDowell, Newsletter Editor Tom Blair, CCCFLA Deana Alonso, FLCSD Nicole Naditz, Discover Languages Tanya Zaccone, SWCOLT Guest: Kevin Simas, FLASH MINUTES SECRETARY'S REPORT The minutes were approved as corrected. ELECTION Ballots were distributed and tallied. All candidates were elected. Kevin Duffy is the President Elect and Julie Martine will be the new Secretary. TREASURER'S REPORTS The Treasurer explained her reports. Conference revenue is still coming in. The CD's matured in January. She just rolled them over to opt up programs. The rate is 1.09 and 1.10. Insurance has just come up for renewal. MEMBERSHIP REPORT The Membership Chair sent out lists of 2009 and 2010 members. We are down some. Last year we started an affiliate growth contest. FLASH increased membership by 100%. They will use the conference registration prize next year when the conference is in the North. Lorraine asked that the Board members promote the birthday bash in San Diego. CFLP REPORT Robert Blake will report on the Road Map. Norman Leonard and LA Stars had several projects funded. CFLP will do what they can to help out with any conferences. UC REPORT Robert Blake reported on the Road Map. This is a program to be language ready in education. The Road Maps are all on line. This is to get state and local programs together on a plan to develop language education in the state. There was a non-profit group that had money available that provided funding for the California Language Road Map. They got money from several sources. Our Road Map will be different from the other states. We will draw from our own resources. Robert Blake is the head of the Road Map program here in California. The culminating event will be May 7 in San Diego with a presentation of what the break-out groups developed doing practical, doable steps. They hope to influence language policy in California. The business community is a sub group, as are policy makers. Community relations is the last sub group. The theme is "Building California Citizens for World Success." There will be federal representation at this meeting. It is a focusing and magnifying effort. They are working on getting Northern and Southern California groups together. ADVOCACY REPORT Lorraine said that she and Duarte are planning on getting legislators' educational reps together. Affiliate reps are asked to get several copies of the policies and go to see local legislators and ask them to attend the sessions in Sacramento. Duarte will send copies of this material to affiliate reps to deliver this material to local legislators. The governor is leaving and has had no interest in language education. We hope that the situation will change with the new election. There is focus on agribusiness now. Nicole Naditz sent out her advocacy report. This will appear in the wrap around in April. AFFILIATE REPORTS Affiliate reports were given. AWARDS REPORT The Awards Committee met last Sunday. They had 44 applicants for the awards. The Committee worked all day reading nominations. This was the largest number of applicants they have had. All awards have been given. Kevin asked if award nominations could be submitted on-line. This has been considered, but it takes many hours to prepare the applications to be read and to double check memberships. This year someone tried to e-mail an application, but this process was very fragmented. ACTFL now does awards on-line. The FLASCC affiliate has a member, David Campbell, who can work on developing this process on-line. There were problems of the authenticity of the letters of support and also verification of membership. CLTA will explore the possibility of moving this process to on-line. Right now the entire packet is supposed to be sent in one mailing. Marge will not accept dues for the previous year after December 31. Some people think that if they receive the news flash that they are members. If you receive Language Magazine, you are a member. We will put the award winners on the web site after the conference, since the awards are being given at the end of the conference. CONFERENCE REPORT Registration is down due to the economy. We will not meet our room bank total. We were able to bring down the room bank. We will owe the hotel $2,000. We promised another conference in 2014. We need to negotiate for next year's conference. We have more workshops this year than ever before. We hope everyone will talk up this year's conference to encourage people to attend next year. We are working on keeping costs down as much as possible. We are down in exhibits since ACTFL was here in November. ACTFL is talking about coming back in the fall of 2014. They are talking about Northern California in 2016 or 2017. We want to work with ACTFL to make sure that we don't go to the same city the same year. The birthday bash is going to be fun and a big deal. Paula will send Lewie information about the birthday bash for the news flash. Everyone will send Lewie information promoting the San Diego Conference right away. Carol announced that Joe Nu–ez would be the plenary session speaker this year. Lorraine said that we need to emphasize the change in schedule this year--no Friday dinner, and a change in awards to Saturday lunch and Sunday brunch. The celebrations will have to take place at home. The people getting awards can get there to get their awards. Banquets and breakfast were also getting very expensive. Sue McKee reported that on-line registration has been very interesting. 130 have registered on-line and some people have registered more than once. The credit card is working well, but there are some issues that have come up. On site registration must be over $100 to use the credit card. On lesser amounts we lose too much money. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S REPORT The Executive Director reported that James Yoder of Las Vegas approached Carol Moir and Jennifer Cornell approached Lorraine about affiliating with us. We need to amend the by-laws to take out California. If this doesn't work, we will invite them to join IEFLA. We would like to invite them to our conference and allow them to see what our conference offers. It has been a long time since we had a new group join CLTA. We will send them the by-laws so they can write up by-laws to join us. MMS to amend Article 13 Section 2B to eliminate the word California from the CLTA by-laws. MMS to accept Nevada as a member of the organization as long as they comply with the requirements outlined in the by-laws to affiliate. Lorraine will contact both of the people from Nevada. We will offer them one night of complementary lodging and complementary registration at the conference this year. The next issue is reciprocity. Lorraine would like to see members of any affiliate be allowed to attend events offered by other affiliates. MMS to allow CLTA members who are also members of any CLTA affiliate to attend events of other affiliates at the member's rate. MMS to table the motion until the September 25, 2010 meeting. The new Secretary will need a new computer. There is currently $800 in the budget for technology. Lorraine needs to begin to use her laptop as her primary computer. MMS to authorize the purchase of a new computer for the new Secretary. Lorraine gave the web site: Kidsdata.org which gives lots of information about kids health in California. Duarte has set up a kickoff for National Foreign Language Week March 1-7. CLTA is a co-sponsor. Sue suggested that future board directories include cell phone numbers instead of FAX numbers. ADVERTISING REVENUE We made about $3,000 in advertising this year. WEBMASTER REPORT The Webmaster reported that we had 20,237 visits to the web site in January 2010. The home page had 2,790 visits. The jobs page had 2,226 visits. The lessons home page had 4,333 visits. The cost of web hosting is about $70 per year. There are 5,554 teachers on our e-mail list. The cost is $216 per year. Lorraine asked about the advertising limit. It is 3-4 lines. We will wait until next year to put ads on the wrap around. The Standards will be on the CDE web site in 2 weeks. CONFERENCE REPORT CONTINUED Paula reported that the site directors gave some suggestions for future conferences: a BITSA price, we are looking into aTwitter site, a Saturday only rate, FUTURES REPORT Carol reported on Futures. We are getting 50 - 512 megabyte memory sticks. They will be available on March 6. MISC. BUSINESS Ruth suggested that we have a brief history of CLTA on the web site. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 1:55 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Susan E. Korsinen CLTA Secretary HOMEWORK: |