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SISTER CITY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES
MONDAY, MARCH 27, 2017 (k 12:00 P.M.
CVB BOARD ROOM
ITEM DISCUSSION ACTION
L Call To Order Heather Moretzsohn, Chair, Sister City Committee
called the meeting to order at 12:05 p.m.
IL Roll Call Members (A=Absent P=Present)
A Deven Bhakta
P Misaki Berrios
A Barbara Canales
P Susane Horn
P David Loeb
A Annette Medlin
P Heather Moretzsohn
P Bill Pettus
P Iain Vasey
Quorum was reached.
Ex Officio
P Tess Allan
P Elizabeth Hardin
CVB Staff
P Teresa Rodriguez, Sister City Program Director
P Carmen Newton, Recorder
P Paulette Kluge, CEO
III. Public Comment Misaki Berrios reported she is resigning from the
committee as she will be relocating to Houston, TX.
This will be her last meeting.
III. Approval of Minutes Heather Moretzsohn asked for a motion to approve the Bill Pettus made a motion
minutes. for approval of the minutes.
This was seconded by
Heather Moretzsohn. Motion
passed.
IV. Discussion/Action
Items
A. Student Exchange Heather Moretzsohn asked that the names of the
Program Update selected students be shared with the committee and also
noted that chaperones are needed to help with
Exchange Students while they are in the city. Help is
also needed in requesting donations from corporations,
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etc., for the students.
B. Program to Re-establish Teresa Rodriguez reported she has been in contact with
relations with Sister Monterrey and they would like to have us go visit their
Cities in Mexico city. She noted she is still in discussion with Playa Del
Carmen, Mexico and Vera Cruz. She is waiting for
dates (before August 1, 2017)to start matching up with
Sister Cities.
C. Sister City Relationship Teresa Rodriguez stated Mr. Gene Seaman has Teresa will contact Sandra
Request with the city of requested that Sandra Alvarez be contacted regarding Alvarez.
Linz, Austria—Update establishment of a Sister City agreement with Linz,
Austria.
V. Other Business Review the Sister City Ordinance regarding members Teresa Rodriguez will
from other counties. contact Foster Edwards and
also invite Colette Walls of
Contact Foster Edwards as well as Colette Walls. the Portland Chamber of
Commerce.
Teresa Rodriguez stated she had met with the Sister
City counterpart in Monterey and they are moving
forward with the initiative.
Susan `Westi' Horn will contact the Embassy in China.
The committee agreed to change the date of the Sister
City Committee meeting to the Is`Monday of each
month, same time.
Elizabeth Hardin stated the Mayor's office had
received a letter from Agen, France, stating a party of
two official delegates are invited August 25 —27, 2017.
Discussion was held regarding the invitation. David
Loeb asked that we ask City Council to donate a
portion of the travel budget(business purpose trip) for
someone to attend if no one on the City Council wants
to travel to Agen, France to invite people to Corpus
Christi.
The meetings will be informational if no quorum is met
—they will not be cancelled.
VI.New Agenda Items 1. Bring Agen, France book for review.
2. Student Activities
VII. Adjournment The meeting adjourned at 12:53 p.m.
The next meeting will be held on Monday, May 1,
2017.
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