2012-04-13 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes

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K. Peters moved to approve $384 for the lunches for the Konawaena girl’s focus group on the mentoring program for all the girls, teachers, and CSW members who attended. K. Schneider seconded the motion. The motion was passed. D. Pung brought up a concern that any spending should require prior approval and a written request submitted to the committee. Since CSW is meeting every other month or whenever necessary, she asked if this will be a problem and whether this practice is going to continue. K. Nova responded that everybody’s intention is that approval will be done ahead of time and this event came together at the last minute. CSW does not generally make this a practice and this discussion has made it clear that the committee need to do everything they can to make sure it doesn’t happen again since monthly meetings are not being held. C. Kitaoka explained that she thought the committee could approve the lunches after the fact if a member paid for it and the committee approved it at today’s meeting. D. Noda said that wasn’t the advice she gave C. Kitaoka. She spoke to J. Viernes and she said that C. Kitaoka need to get approval and it’s a bad practice to approve it post unless someone was going to assume the personal responsibility to eat the bill if it didn’t get approve. She thought C. Kitaoka was working with J. Viernes to reschedule today’s meeting because J. Viernes had offer to poll everybody to get a mutually convenient alternative date. Her other suggestion was to go to another site after C. Kitaoka got approval. C. Kitaoka requested for approval to purchase pizzas and water for a mentoring meeting on May 24, 2012 to get input from the students who attended the mentoring program luncheon. K. Schneider offered to pick up the pizzas and water from Costco. K. Schneider moved to supply lunches for the mentoring meeting with the students not to exceed $60 in cost. L. Ugalde seconded the motion. The motion was passed. C. Kitaoka stated that they brought some UH law students to Kealakehe Intermediate School and Konawaena High School and they taught a class on first amendment rights on April 9-10, 2012. It was very successful and the students were really engaged and involved in this class. A discussion was held about going to law school also. C. Kitaoka felt this would be a good project for the mentoring project next year. K. Peters said when they meet with the girls, they can find out things like when would be the best time to meet with them, would their parents come, etc. She would like to know the logistics so CSW doesn’t spend any more money and have a program that is not well attended or doesn’t reach a wide audience. Furthermore, it’s looking to be more inclusive if they intensely work with just this group. N. Kelly stated that she is not too concerned about expanding it over to Hilo just yet. She felt that CSW should at least invite other students from other schools to 4