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Sister City 2017/01/23CITY OF ANAHEIM SISTER CITY COMMISSION MINUTES January 23, 2017 COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Anthony Al -Jamie, Paul Anderson, Taline Cole, Lori Dinwiddie, Jackie Filbeck, Yanni Guo, Matthew Hicks, Mark Lopez, JerryO'Keefe, Brian O'Neal and Anna Piercy Pepe Avila, Julia Erdkamp, Debbie Juliani and Jeanne Tran STAFF PRESENT: Greg Garcia, City Manager's Office Erin Ryan, City Manager's Office Kimberly Kelemen, Community Services Maggie Solorio, City Manager's Office GUESTS PRESENT: David Bracey, Anaheim University Agenda Posting: A complete copy of the Anaheim Sister City Commission Agenda was posted on Friday, January 20, 2017 at 3:00 p.m. at Anaheim City Hall. Public Input: Vice Chair Anthony Al -Jamie explained that members of the public are invited to address the Anaheim Sister City Commission and will be called upon under Agenda Item No. VI. Public Comment. L CALL TO ORDER The meeting of the Anaheim Sister City Commission (ASCO) was called to order at 4:10 p.m. by Vice Chair Anthony Al -Jamie on Monday, January 23, 2017 at the Anaheim City Manager's Office, City Hall, 200 S. Anaheim Blvd., 7th Floor, Anaheim, California. IL ELECTION OF COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON MOTION: Commissioner Lori Dinwiddie offered a Motion, seconded by Commissioner Jackie Filbeck AND MOTION CARRIED (Vote: 11-0, Absent: Pepe Avila, Julia Erdkamp, Debbie Juliani and Jeanne Tran) that the Anaheim ITEM NO. 04 Anaheim Sister City Commission January 23, 2017 Page 2 Sister City Commission does hereby appoint Debbie Juliani to serve as the Sister City Commission Chair through June 30, 2017. III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES MOTION: Commissioner Anna Piercy offered a Motion, seconded by Commissioner Brian O'Neal AND MOTION CARRIED (Vote: 9-0, Abstained: Yanni Guo and Taline Cole; Absent: Pepe Avila, Julia Erdkamp, Debbie Juliani and Jeanne Tran) that the Anaheim Sister City Commission does hereby approve the minutes from the ASCC meeting held on November 28, 2016 as presented. IV. APPROVAL OF TREASURER'S REPORTS Erin Ryan presented the Treasurer's Report dated January 23, 2017. The report reflects a credit of $5,000 that was charged in error for the Mito Anniversary Lunch held in October. The statement shows a current balance of $14,416.07. MOTION: Commissioner Brian O'Neal offered a Motion, seconded by Commissioner Anna Piercy AND MOTION CARRIED (Vote: 11-0, Absent: Pepe Avila, Julia Erdkamp, Debbie Juliani and Jeanne Tran) that the Anaheim Sister City Commission does hereby approve the Treasurer's Report dated January 23, 2017. V. AD HOC SUBCOMMITTEE REVIEW & REPORTS a. Cultural/Government Exchange Subcommittee Commissioner Lori Dinwiddie passed around a Christmas card that she received from one of the students she hosted last year. She also passed around a memory book that the Mito students prepared from their visit in the summer of 2016. Furthermore, Commissioner Dinwiddie reported they received nine applications for the 2017 Outbound Student Exchange. The students that applied are from Magnolia, Anaheim and Oxford and all of the applications were submitted online. Commissioner Dinwiddie also announced that the student meet and greet had been rescheduled to Feb. 1 at 6 p.m. and the location was to be determined. The number of applications received was half the number that was received the year before. The cost remained the same, so the Commission does not know why there were less applications submitted this year. Anaheim Sister City Commission January 23, 2017 Page 3 After further discussion, the Commission extended the application deadline to Monday, Jan. 30 to give an opportunity for more students to apply. The Commission is going to pass the word around to schools and teachers. b. Marketing/Fundraising Subcommittee None. c. Economic Development Subcommittee Chair Anthony Al -Jamie is going to set up a meeting with the Economic Development Subcommittee before the next scheduled meeting. Greg Garcia reported the Anaheim Chamber of Commerce has been working on providing the Commission a snap shot of the local businesses in order for the Commission to use that information whenever they look at other future potential cities. A snap shot of Anaheim's business environment will be a good resource to have when trying to decide how they can connect our businesses with those in our existing sister cities or in any potential sister cities in the future. VI. PUBLIC COMMENT David Bracey thanked the commissioners who purchased raffle tickets from Sister Cities International, SoCal Chapter for the Japan trip. Though the commissioners did not win, he very much appreciated their support. David also indicated that Sister Cities International will have its annual Youth Leadership Summit in July in Virginia Beach. SoCal Sister cities has a scholarship for sending a youth representative from one of the sister cities in southern California. This is a 4 -day event with special speakers and they have a diplomatic simulation moderated by the US Diplomacy Center. The scholarship covers the fees and the accommodations to attend while the youth will need to cover the cost of airfare. This may be something that one of the youth ambassadors may be interested in applying for. VII. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS Commissioner Laurie Dinwiddie introduced Kimberly Kelemen from Community Services. Greg Garcia added that Kim is going to be working closely with the Sister City Commission as Erin transitions to more of a communications role in the City Manager's Office. Anaheim Sister City Commission January 23, 2017 Page 4 Commissioner Jackie Filbeck will be putting together gift bags for the students participating in the inbound student exchange and she would like the Commission to start thinking of what items they can contribute. She would like 12-15 of each gift item. Greg Garcia advised that the City Council is looking at possibly redoing all of the City's boards and commissions. There are 10 boards and commissions citywide. Now that the City is in a district system, where council members are elected by district, the City Council is interested in looking at all the board and commissions to determine if there should be representation from each district on each board or commission. A workshop will be held on Jan. 24 outlining all the boards and commissions and some options for the Council to consider. There is also an item on the Council agenda where the Council can choose to direct staff to take action one way or another. It is an unknown at this point, but staff will know more after the meeting on Jan. 24. Commissioner Jackie Filbeck stated she read the agenda and it states very clearly that Council could eventually wipe out all of the commissions. She asked if staff is going to be there to let Council know that the Sister City Commission has some major programs in place that they are working on, such as the exchange, and if they wipe out this particular Commission, there will be some consequences that could affect the student exchange program. Greg assured the Commission that it's staff s job to explain that this commission is a lot different than any other commission. It will be noted that the Sister City Commission is the largest commission, the only commission without a residency requirement because of the need to have industry partner involvement and the existence of permanent seats from the school district. Erin Ryan will inform the Commission of any action that Council takes on Jan. 24. VIII. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 4:55 p.m. to Monday, February 27, 2017 at 4:00 p.m. at the Anaheim City Hall, 7th Floor, City Manager's Office Large Conference Room.