2016-07-12 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes

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C. Real Women Essay Contest Sub -Committee • A new Sub -Committee was formed to include: Aunty Jessie, Farrah, Tammy, and Lee -Ann. • Committee will continue to engage in discussion and work on the planning of 2017 Real Woman Essay Contest to ensure earlier luncheon. D. Hawaii Island Women's Leadership Forum • There is $300 budgeted for interisland conference. We don't anticipate spending that on interisland conference and want to redirect to Hawaii Island conference, so we can reallocate to the HIWLF Summit. That will cover 3 members attending. We will have to figure out where we would take the expenses out of for any additional members attending summit. • Needed to decide on the number of seats going to the Leadership Summit. We can adjust budget categories later. • Committee discussed attendance of the Leadership Forum to include: Lee -Ann, Brooke, Aunty Jessie, Mele, and Deb. • $500 max can be approved today and adjusted in future as needed. We want to allow opportunity to register before deadline. • Currently not a budgeted item, however in response to Councilwoman Poindexter's comment at the Real Woman Essay event, we will be working to supplement costs by working with councilmembers. • A motion by Aunty Jessie was made and seconded by Tammy to pay for up to 5 members to attend the Hawaii Island Leadership Summit to be held on August 26, 2016 with early bird registration. A maximum of $600 was approved. • CSW members will wait for confirmation by Farrah to either pay and save receipt for reimbursement or go in and pay via purchase order. • Registration through the end of this month is $100 and after August 1 st it increases to $110. E. CSW Brochure Update on status —we need to reformat the whole brochure now that we have the picture from the Real Woman Essay event from June 26, 2016. Action: Farrah will get a draft of CSW brochure by next meeting in August 2016. Farrah will ask Lisa for 4 reams and printing count to be approximately 600 copies. F. Cell Phone Safety Cards • Jesse gave 100 between the Kau coffee festival and Tropic Care. • Lee -Ann and Brooke will take cards to share at the NACW conference. D