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Canadian
Parents For French - Special General Meeting
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Parents
interested in rejuvenating CPF- Vancouver are asked to attend a SPECIAL
GENERAL MEETING OF CPF *7:00 pm - Thursday, February 28, 2008 at Kitsilano
Secondary School** 2550 West 10th Avenue V6K 2J6*
With the immediate concerns around seismic upgrading of Jules Quesnel and the threatened closure of Queen Elizabeth
Annex there has never been a more impelling reason to get involved. The EFR
report will go before Committee III of the VSB on Mar 11. Please distribute
this information to as many parents from our elementary feeder schools as
possible.
*AGENDA*
1. Approve Minutes of Chapter AGM (May 17, 2007) http://www.geocities.com/cpfvancouver/cpf-
vancouver-meeting-minutes-2007-may-17.htm
2. Adopt Agenda
3. Presentation
Elyn Dobbs, Chapter Support/Outreach Coordinator, CPF BC&Yukon
Branch Office:
"Overview of CPF - who are we, what do we do,
how do we support learning opportunities for students through our network of
volunteers."
4. Finances (Debra Dawes) Current
financial statement (To date for fiscal year April 1, 2007- March 31, 2008)
5. Discussion
The CPF Vancouver Chapter has a long history of dedicated volunteers who have
supported learning opportunities for students, French Immersion programs and
a network of information and resources for parents. Sadly, in the past couple
of years, there have been fewer volunteers stepping forward to take on the
traditional roles. This has led to there being no functioning Executive, and
minimal efforts to carry on activity at the Chapter level. There has been no
CPF representation at the VSB Modern Languages Advisory Committee for quite a
while. The CPF BC & Yukon Branch Office has for some time recognized the
Vancouver Chapter as "Inactive" and has not funded the Chapter.
The purpose of this very important meeting is for Vancouver
members of CPF to discuss the future of the Chapter: a general vision of how
CPF in Vancouver
can best serve the students, parents and French programs throughout the city.
What are the most immediate priorities, and how can we move forward in a way
that is manageable and sustainable.
6. Motions for consideration
* *** *TO DISSOLVE* the existing CPF Vancouver structure and close the bank
account.
* * *TO AGREE TO FORM* three local CPF Vancouver Sections organized around
the secondary schools' families of feeder schools (see below), each with
their own Executive, bank account, and signingofficers.
* * *TO REDEFINE* CPF Vancouver as an umbrella entity that exists in name
only and serves to ensure communication between Vancouver areas, and
coordinates representation on the VSB MLAC. The Presidents of each of the
three Sections will be the partners in this entity, and will ensure there is
a minimum of one meeting per year of all Executives and School Reps.
7. Election of preliminary core group of founding Executives (minimum 3 for
each Section)
*CPF Vancouver South* (Churchill, Douglas & Annex, Kerrisdale,
Quilchena): President - Vice-president - Treasurer - Secretary - Chapter
Representative - Members-at-Large
*CPF Vancouver East* (Van Tech, Hastings, Secord,
Selkirk, Strathcona): President - Vice-president -
Treasurer - Secretary - Chapter Representative - Members-at-Large
*CPF Vancouver North* (Kitsilano, Jules Quesnel, L'Ecole Bilingue, Queen
Elizabeth, Tennyson, Trafalgar): President - Vice-president - Treasurer -
Secretary - Chapter Representative - Members-at-Large
8. Other business
9. Meeting termination
Elyn Dobbs
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