OMC - OMC Meeting 12/2009

OMC Meeting 12/2009

Angeles Chapter Office & Teleconference, Monday, 7 December 2009, 7:30 P.M.

Agenda

Call to Order (7:30)

Kent Schwitkis, OMC Chair*
Tina Bowman, LTC Chair*
Jane Simpson, WTC Chair*
Phil Wheeler, Safety Committee Chair*
Barbara Creighton, Melody Anderson, ICO*
Mary Morales, OMC VChair
Donna Specht*
Silvia Darie*
George Denny*
Marc Hertz*

Approval of Agenda (7:35)

Approval of Minutes (7:40)

Final for 3 August 2009
5 October 2009 Draft

Notices

Ski Mounteering Section had election.

Committee Reports (7:45)

Treasurer & Int'l Trip Liaison - Donna Specht
WTC - Jane Simpson - see report
LTC - Tina Bowman - see report
Safety Committee - Phil Wheeler
LOSC - Mark Hertz / Sherry Ross
Conservation - John Hinz
Ombudsman - Bill Jackson
Bus Transportation - Joel Goldberg
First Aid Coordinator - Steve Goldstein
Land Manager Coordinator - Patrick Vaughn
ICO - Barbara Creighton
Carbon Footprint TF - Ross
Diversity TF - M Anderson - see report

Old Business (7:55)

OMC formal communication to ECC
Affiliations with SCMA and Red Cross - Schwitkis - no changes
Assembly subcommittees updates
1. New members for 2010 OMC, Safety, LTC
2. Debrief of 2009 event
3. Plan for 2010 event
Tejon Ranch - good news from 21 Nov 2009 hike
1. The company is quite impressed with us
2. Meeting in Jan/Feb 2010
Conservation conversation between Hinz and Simpson
AWESOME - Angeles Web-based Support for Outings Management and Execution
1. License and progress

New Business / Action Items (8:55)

OMC chair for 2010
Updated Governance Policy
1. Discussion
2. Acceptance
3. Presentation to ExCom directly, presentation to "Assembly"

Meeting Adjournment (9:30)

Next meeting

Next "regular" OMC meeting is 1 February 2010

OMC formal communication to ECC

OMC wishes to thank ECC for their tireless efforts in automating Angeles processes and enabling some of our communications. By this motion OMC wishes to communicate to ECC that OMC is moving in a different direction with respect to web publishing of outings and will not be utilizing the software product known as OMS but, instead, as decided on an alternative product currently called AWESOME. However we will still need ECC support in integrating AWESOME into the Chapter web structure to meet our April 2010 schedule commitment of chapter-wide outings automation implementation. Motion made - 1/2/2009, polls closed 11/6/2009, Communication and ECC notified 11/7/2009:

Reports

WTC

Total as of 12/03 evening is 140... so we are improving and more are coming in. The next official update will be after December 15, end of discount day.

Last year at end of November, we had 153 and by Dec 15, we had 211
For 2008, we had 123 by end of November and by Dec 15, we had 175
For 2007, we had 83 by end of November and by Dec 15, we had 151

LTC

April 10, 2010, seminar at Eaton Canyon
October 2, 2010, seminar at Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center.

Assembly Results:

Assembly representatives to OMC are Silvia Darie, George Denny, David Meltzer, Mary Morales, and Donna Specht
Assembly representative to Safety Comm - Todd Clark
Assembly representative to LTC - Melody Anderson

Diversity TF Report:

The Diversity Council will present its pilot training program "Diversity 101" for the Angeles Chapter on Saturday, January 30, 2010. Time and place to be determined.

Diversity 101: Core Concepts and Their Relevance to the Sierra Club
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Los Angeles , California

How is diversity relevant to the Sierra Club's mission?
Does your Sierra Club meeting reflect the diversity of the surrounding communities?
What does diversity have to do with you?

If these questions interest you, please join us for an interactive, one-day session designed provide local Club grassroots leaders with a unique shared learning opportunity. In this session, you will:

Learn new language and frameworks to demystify and promote diversity and inclusion
Gain insights into the dynamics that impact organizational success and the ability to sustain diverse partnerships
Build your skills for engaging volunteers from a wide range of backgrounds
Deepen your connection to other members of the Club while learning how to attract new members

We will discuss how diversity plays out at different levels of society - in personal interactions, between groups of people, at the organizational level, and within movements. And we will focus on the role all of us play within the Club, to create a thriving organization that will continue to succeed well into the future.

Registration: To register or obtain more information, please contact Juana Torres at juana.torres@sierraclub.org or 213-387-6528 x226. Registrations will be accepted on a rolling basis until January 13, 2010. We encourage you to register early as the session is designed for hands-on learning and the number of participants is limited.

Facilitator: This session will be facilitated by staff of Diversity Matters: changing the culture of change, who have many years of experience working with a wide array of institutions in the environmental field on how to integrate equity, diversity, and inclusion into all facets of their operations and programs.

This session is organized and sponsored by the Sierra Club's Diversity Council as the pilot version of a proposed introductory diversity and inclusion learning session to be provided to Club grassroots leaders.

The February 2010 issue of the Southern Sierran will be themed "Celebrating Diversity in Honor of Black History Month." (A big THANK YOU to Elizabeth Saas for doing this!) If you have an idea for an article for this issue, please contact me or Elizabeth.

The "Tuesday Hiking Club", which is comprised of members of the local Korean hiking community, recently donated $1,000 to the Angeles Forest Restoration Project to help with post-Station Fire recovery.

melody :)