Gold Country Delegation Bulletin #15: Fundraisers, Elections, and Pre-Con, Oh My!

Our January 16 meeting is a mandatory pre-conference one so please make sure to attend! 

Our January 23 meeting will be held at the Rood Center in Nevada City, and will begin at 5:30! Dress in Sac Attire, as we will be ushering and card-running for the League of Women Voters as they hold their Candidate Forum for District 1 Supervisor (an office currently held by Heidi Hall).

At the next meeting:  Fresno Prep!; Also.... it's that time! --Gold Country Delegation Elections Information

What's due: Nothin'

1.)  Crafty? Bring anything you'd like to contribute to Zayo's Forum Presiding Speaker campaign poster creation effort! Markers, construction paper, glue, poster board, sticks, creative things (no glitter, please) that Zayo can suggest via GroupMe.

2.)  If you don't mind driving to Sacramento, the 38th Annual Rotary Club Crab Feed is being helped by Y&G, and Volunteers are Still Needed: Each year, the Rotary holds a crab feed benefiting local organizations. This year, the February 8, 2020 Crab Feed will benefit the Children's Receiving Home of Sacramento and the Sacramento Central YMCA! We need volunteers! Three shifts are available and you can sign up online and get all the deets here. 

If parents are interested in attending the Crab Feed, tickets can be purchased here.

3.) Delegation Officer Elections (73rd MLC): This year's delegation elections calendar is as follows:

- Thursday, January 15: Elections Information Distributed

- Friday, January 24: Deadline to file to run for an officer position

- Thursday, January 30: Delegation Elections

- February 23: Swearing-In Ceremony at the Annual Celebration Banquet

All delegates planning to return for next year's program are eligible to run for an officer position. All delegates should carefully review the leadership expectations and officer duty statements (to be distributed tomorrow). Delegates self-nominate for the position in which they are interested by completing the candidate form (to be distributed after tomorrow's meeting). All candidates must complete the form by January 24. Candidate information will be distributed in the delegation bulletin following the form completion deadline. Candidates will have 2 min and 30 seconds to deliver their candidate speech at our January 30 meeting. Delegates may ask candidates questions. Elections will be held January 30 and officers-elect will be sworn-in at our Celebration Banquet on February 23 (after Sac Conference).

4.) Additional Y&G Applied Programs and Opportunities: All apps are available in your Reggo account. Please contact Christiana if you have additional questions about any of these opportunities.

• Conference on National Affairs (CONA): CONA is a ten-day national Y&G program that brings together delegations from all over the US for an NIC-style debate program. Twenty-five delegates from California are selected for this prestigious program. More information can be found here. Financial aid is available through CalYMCA if you are selected. Apply in Reggo. They are looking for more NorCal applicants this year, so APPLY! Due: February 1. NOTE: A lead advisor recommendation is required and must be requested no later than February 1. 
• CalYMCA Governing Board, Youth Member: Applications are now open for youth member spots on the CalYMCA Governing Board. In this role you represent your fellow delegates with a vote on the Board of Directors that makes important policy decisions about our programs. This is a very important position with a lot of responsibility and the power to have a lasting impact on Y&G. Requires quarterly meeting attendance. Travel provided by CalYMCA. Apply in Reggo. Due: February 1
• NJC: I was asked about NJC at the last meeting, and request that all interested applicants apply in Reggo by Feburary 1 to give me time to write the required recommendation (similar to CONA, above). More info on NJC can be found here.

You must notify me if you apply for any of these programs so that I can approve your application. Failure to let me know means your application won't be considered by CalYMCA. 

REMINDERS

Candidates and Leadership Applicants/Applied Program Area Applicants: 

• Applied Leadership/Program interview times for T&EII have gone out via email. If you didn't see the email (from CalY staff), let MJ know ASAP! 
• If you are running for elected office, make sure you have reviewed the campaign rules and that you are tracking any campaign expenditures. You MUST bring to conference check-in a completed campaign finance disclosure form to be signed by your lead advisor even if you incurred no campaign expenses! Every candidate must submit a form upon arrival to Fresno, even if it's blank! 
• If you have applied for appointed leadership, make sure that you read your email regularly between now and the conference and review the conference schedule when it is released next week to check your interview times and locations.
• That includes applicants for program areas such as Supreme Court and CET and special programs like NJC and CONA, etc.

Conference Attendance: We have two remaining conferences this year. Please review our conference attendance policy:

• For T&E II (Jan 18-20): Partial attendance is not permitted except in extraordinary circumstances. Regular season sport events, meets, regular season academic club meets, finals, school projects, etc, are not extraordinary circumstances. You are expected to travel to the conference with the delegation, attend the entire conference, and travel home again with the delegation.
• For ML/C ("Sac Conference," Feb 13-17): Partial attendance is not permitted. Though we happen to be the home team, pretend the conference is located in SoCal, Texas, or the dark side of the moon. No ins-and-outs. Regular season sports, other local extracurriculars, exams, etc, are not valid reasons to miss conference. 

Family Corner: 

Model United Nations has begun! Last week saw the return of the Model Legislature & Court's companion program for middle school students (grades 6-8) to Gold Country. If you have a middle school student at home or have friends with children in that age group, please pass along an invitation to attend our next meeting Thursday, January 16, 2020 from 4:30-6pm at the same place as MLC, 240 Mill Street, GV, side door. Registration is now open!

Looking Ahead: Our next conference runs from Saturday, January 18 through Monday, January 20. We will again travel by bus on roughly the same schedule as the last conference (be in El Dorado Hills by 8:45am). Our final conference, the full Model Legislature & Court, runs from Thursday, February 13 through Monday, February 17. Unlike our Fresno trips, because the final conference is here in Sacramento, parents must provide transportation to and from the downtown Sacramento area. Plan for Thursday arrival around 10am and Monday pick-up around 9am. Our February 6 pre-MLC meeting will be mandatory for all delegates and a member of each delegate's family. Please make plans to attend!

MaryJane

Lead Advisor, Gold Country Delegation

Advocacy, Grit, and Growth Mindset

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Mark your calendars:

January 15 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting

January 18-10 - Training & Elections Conference II

January 23 - Meeting held at Rood Center in service of League of Women Voters Candidate Forum - be there at 5:30

 February 1 - CONA, NJC, Governing Board Apps Due in Reggo  

February 6 - Mandatory Pre-Conference Meeting

February 13-17 - 72nd Model Legislature & Court

February 23 - Celebration Banquet 2020 (tickets on sale in January) 

We are committed to equal program access for all and are dedicated to ensuring the benefits of Y&G are available to every student in our community without regard to financial need. No delegate should ever drop out or refrain from joining because of financial concerns. If you want to do this program, we want you to do this program.