• President Carol Riley commenced at 7:41pm
  • Welcome
    • President Carol Riley welcomed everyone to the Far West Region V conference.
    • The Region V board was later introduced and later regcognized by Frances Shimotsu
  • Secretary’s Report
    • Reviewed by Carol Riley
    • Website
      • inability to file upload
        • Kristin & Carol will meet to establish Hawaii page
    • Rita Johnson moved that the minutes be accepted
    • Sherry seconded the motion
    • The minutes were accepted with a unanimous vote
  • Treasurers Report
    • Beige paper
    • issue of un-cashed checks
      • previous treasurer did not have any information regarding un-cashed checks
    • $9,000.00 extra in the account from money returned by the state
      • short-term CD
        • higher interest account
    • Chapter Dues
      • region has not received chapter dues
        • process: bill sent to chapters; chapters send $35.00 to the region
        • a second round of bills will be sent to the chapter presidents and treasurer
          • send notification for forwarding to current chapter or treasurer
          • request reply for chapters no longer in existence
    • Balance: $9318.02
    • Frances Shimotsu Scholarship Fund
      • earned by selling t-shirts ($15.00)
      • money used to help members pay for the biennial conference
      • Bob Hu has a stock of t-shirts for members in Hawaii
      • a scholarship committee determines who may receive the scholarship
      • Alpha Iota Chapter
        • dissolved
        • money previously held for the Edna Mae Soper Award of Excellence in Teaching is now being held by the Pi Lambda Theta Far West Region
          • the Far West Region will be able to distribute this money in 2009
            • Dee Konczal suggested possibly giving money to a forming chapter
            • Contact Tamera Warner
              • International Office Virgie recommended that the treasurer’s report be filed Dee seconded the recommendation
  • Old Business
    • Chapter retention
      • Ideas
        • Bridging communication between the chapters within our region
          • emphasize that PLT is not just another angle of meetings, training and conferences.
        • maybe PLT needs to be restructured and redefined
          • a generational gap
          • may not see the need for social
        • members at large
          • try a geographical event 4x each year
        • emphasize a social, support network
        • Chapter presidents: brainstorm 2 events that they would be willing to host
        • move region meetings to a time of year where more new teachers would be available (outside of the school year)
        • region v project
          • outreach to members at large
          • network outreach
            
  • Introduction of VIP’s
    • President: Carol Riley, Hawaii (criley68@myhokua.com) 
    • Vice President: Dee Konczal, California (dkonczal@sbcglobal.net)
    • Secretary: Kristin Yarbrough, California (kristin.yarbrough@yahoo.com) 
    • Treasurer: Ryan Holoubek, California (rholoubek@buckeye.k12.ca.us)
      
  • Song by Virgie Tsuda “Pi Lambda Theta Region V”
    
  • Announcements
    • Dee Konczal
      • Southern California
        • Saturday, October 4th, 2008
        • Restaurant 2 miles from train station Santa Barbara
        • members who wish attend to the meeting will be picked up and taken to
        • members who wish to stay in Santa Barbara for a visit will be given recommendations and invitation to a winery Mexican luncheon 
        • $20 flat fee for lunch and transportation from the train station
        • topic of meeting: historic Pi Lambda Theta
          
    • Corrections to the member directory Dee
      • Valley of the Falls
      • Dr. Rita Jones— ritajones5968@sbcglobal.net
      • Sherri – sdbh5151@aol.com
      • Frances – Beta Zeta & Virginia
      • Vergie „³ both spelled Virgies
        
    • Lei-making tomorrow 3-3:30pm
      
• The meeting adjourned at 8:37pm

Chapters who wish to set up independent websites have the option to use the address of http://CHAPTERNAME.pltregionv.org. This will be completely controlled by the hosted chapter who may use FTP to upload content. If your chapter is interested in having this set up, please contact the webmaster at pltregionv "at" pltregionv.org.

When we give a child a book, we give an opportunity to change their world.

We hope that you had a wonderful holiday season with family and friends. As we come out of a busy season, we hope you will find time to help our group to give to those less fortunate and show generosity toward the children of Northern California. We all know how important reading and a love of books is to a child's future. It is time to put our thoughts into action.

Please join us Saturday, February 17th at 10am a tthe Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento: 3555 Auburn Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95821.

The Children's Receiving Home is the safety net for the area's abused and neglected children between the ages of 1 and 17. As the ONLY emergency shelter of its kind in Sacramento County, in effect; we act as the "front door" of the child protective system.

Our plan is to read to groups of children for an hour and then distribute these books to each child. That means our group needs to collect a minimum of 98 books (one per child).

We need your help!

Please begin collecfting books to distribute on our PLT outreach day. We would be VERY happy to bring them to CRH for you if you mail them to Jan by 02/03/2007 at: Jan Fagan 813 Spring Street; Placerville, CA 95667. Please email Jan Fagan to let her know you are interested in helping or are planning to attend: fagan4@internet49.com.