Monday's Board Meeting: Revised Schedule and Agenda

[Marvy Schuman]

Dear Council Board Members~

I hope you all are having fun March-ing to the sun shine and awesome weather of this month.  It's been so gorgeous outside, so I hope you are benefitting from the stolen moments of beautiful spring-like weather, admiring the flowers and the birds. For those who want to learn fishing, I am inviting you to join me the next few months for cheat-fishing days at Alton Baker Park.  They have started restocking again.

Alas, it is that time of our term when we need to close shop and finalize our current board business.  Since Monday will be our last official board meeting before the election of the new members for the new board, I will call a closed board meeting for current Council members only from 6-6:45 pm.  That means, NO one outside of our current board can sit in with us until we officially declare the current board finished with its term. It is important that we have proper closure and not repeat how the last term was transitioned to us.  That is our main agenda.

After that, we will have a 5 minute break and then Misa can come in with the other new members and proceed to take over for the nominations and elections until we end at 8 pm.  Misa, please instruct the new nominees to come around 6:30 or if they will partake with our refreshments, move to another place while the board meets.  We might be able to end our board meeting a tad earlier.

It has been an honor to serve as your president.  I hope you all remember our term for the success of OUR collective efforts: the organization of our financial management being our paramount achievement for the past 2 celebrations, establishing a partnership with OCCU, who has helped us far more than we imagined, winning the Eugene Celebration parade competition (2 years!), our first-response efforts for our elders/disabled during inclement weather, our public service announcements on our FB pages, financial aid we give to those who have experienced tragedies or deaths, or bringing food to those who are sick or under financial duress, the return of the grant-awarding to AAFO, feeding our board members so we can have quality meetings, etc.  Let some of OUR accomplishments speak for our term's advancement.  

It is my prayer that the new and old members of the succeeding board will be as successful, if not more, with all that they aspire to endeavor.  Each and every person who has served the Asian Council has a gift, a talent to share.  I hope that you were able to find purpose for that talent and some kind of fulfillment in whatever personal goals you had.

I leave with a satisfied soul, knowing that amidst the trials and tribulations, the arguments and disagreements, the growing pains as they say, when weighed in for measure, we have delivered much to make our term as transparent, accountable, generous, compassionate, fair, and sustainable as it has ever been.  Some of you were solace to me at my challenge times, so thank you for that.

Thank you for entrusting me with your vote 2 years ago when I committed to run our Council as a business. Therefore, as a proper business, we need this proper turnover.  It's just sound business sense.

See you on Monday.

Sincerely,

Marvy

PS

Whoever is controlling our FB page, please put up a reminder that it's Daylight Savings beginning 2 a.m. on Sunday. It's part of our public service announcement to our membership.  Thank you!

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MARVY SCHUMAN
Happy Soul

Asian Council, President

Asian Celebration 2015

Advertising, Sponsorship & Finance Committee 

Tel. 541-915-3816