HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Sister City Committee - 07/06/2015 SISTER CITY COMMITTEE
Regular Meeting, July 6, 2015, 6:00 pm
6t" Floor Conference Room, City Hall
1201 Leopard St., Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
MEMBERSP A MEMBERS P A STAFF
1. Charlie Bass X9. Alan Thornburg X Reba George
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2. Misaki Berrios X10. Lee White X Tess Allan
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3. Westi Horn X11. Vacant X
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4. Sunny Kim X 12. Vacant X
5. Hailey Kimball X 13. Vacant X
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6. John MaldonadoX 14. Vacant X
7. Heather MoretzsohnX 15. Vacant X
8. Ashley SimperX
Total: 8 7
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I. CALL TO ORDER:
The regular meeting of the Sister City Committee was called to order by Alan Thornburg at 6:03 pm.
II. ROLL CALL: City Staff called roll. A quorum was met with 8 members present.
III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: By general consensus the Minutes were approved as submitted.
IV. FINANCIAL REPORT: $3,415.52 total available funds
V. PUBLIC COMMENT: None
VI. DISCUSSION/ACTION
Chief Rocha — Playa del Carmen and Monterrey Exchange
Fire Chief Robert Rocha updated the Committee on the current Fireman exchange with 3 Mexican
Cities. Although the original dialogue began with Playa del Carmen their Fire Chief recently passed
away so they will not be able to participate in this first exchange, however, 4 Firemen from Monterrey
and 4 from Veracruz will be participating. The training will last 4 days, July 20th through the 24th, and
will focus on car accident recovery, building collapse, hazardous materials, and fire suppression. Chief
Rocha will be providing the lodging, dinner meals and the training, with the help of some Firemen from
Kansas City, and anticipates sending the trainees back with some donated equipment. They will
provide all of their own transportation costs and other food or travel expenses. Chief Rocha will
provide Lee with photos to post on SCC social media, and will send an itinerary once it's finalized so
that SCC members can stop by. Heather invited Chief Rocha to come to the press release on Friday,
July 24th at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
VII. Liaison Reports
A. Yokosuka, Japan —Westi reported that there was a major flight delay from Corpus Christi to San
Antonio so Audrey Dechant's parents drove to San Antonio so that Audrey and Brianna Hoelscher
could catch their flight from San Antonio to Dallas. They made the rest of their flight fine and
seem to be having a good time in Japan.
B. Agen, France — no report
C. Keelung, Taiwan — Misaki reported that Lauren Pace arrived in Taiwan with no problems. She
seems to be having a good time and has been posting pictures from the beach, shopping, camp,
etc. Lauren will return on July 21St with the two Taiwanese students.
D. Playa del Carmen, Mexico— None
E. Toledo, Spain — None
F. Veracruz, Mexico— None
VIII. Task Manager Reports
A. Publicity — Sunny distributed a press release draft and will send a final version to her media
contacts.
B. Curriculum/Training — None
C. Fundraising — Lee distributed a taskforce report and announced that the SCC Facebook page
has 116 likes. Committee members were asked to like and share the SCC page with their friends.
Committee members agreed to share any photos or updates with Lee so that he could post to the
page as well. Lee requested permission to change the funding goal for the second Go Fund Me
campaign; it is currently set at$5,000 but he would like to change it to $12,000 to pay 100% of the
2016 student travel costs. Lee proposed a fundraising event with food and wine pairings from our
Sister Cities hosted by Cactus &Vine to take place by mid-September.
Committee members reported several donations: Chick-fil-a; Jason's Deli; Salina's Catering to
provide a meal; Whataburger — 25 breakfast, 25 anytime meals, 25 backpacks; HEB - $500;
Korean Chamber of Commerce $100 and drinks for events; Hibachi Grill; L'Alliance Francaise de
Corpus Christi - $100; all of the Student Activities Fees were donated: Harbor Playhouse tickets,
Botanical Gardens; Karma Floating Classroom; Museum of Asian Culture; USS Lexington; and
the Aquarium.
D. Activities — Heather and Westi reviewed the activities schedule and distributed a sign up list for
Committee members to chaperone the various events. Westi will send a revised list to everyone
when it's finalized.
E. Selection — None
F. Student Service — None
G. Other — Heather requested members interested in helping to develop a Memo of Understanding
with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to stay after the meeting to discuss. Reba reported that
she will be having a meeting with Teresa to draft an MOU for the City and will share with the SCC
for review.
IX. Identify Items to be Placed on Next Agenda
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Partnership
X. General Chair Report—Alan requested Lee to take over the Social Media task and Lee agreed.
XI. City Staff Report — Hailey Kimball sent a request asking that her June absence be excused due to
illness and the absence from this meeting due to being out of town. The Committee excused the June
absence but not the July absence.
Tess announced that the City Secretary's Office has two current applications and they have requested
that the SCC members help with recruiting new SCC applicants to help fill the vacancies.
XII. ADJOURNMENT: Alan Thornburg adjourned the meeting at 7:10 pm.
Tess Allan
Parks & Recreation Department