SEDONA PROUD
With everyone a bit stressed due to the slow economy, Sedona construction and the election, we all have our minds pre-occupied and fearful to take on another project. The last thing we are generally thinking about at this time is volunteering for another project, therefore we have structured the tax credit program this year to accommodate such fears and allow us all to come together as a community to help our kids.
All we need is a small piece of your time to help us provide our school students the most our community and school district has to offer. We need a large number of volunteers to help do JUST a little bit each for this program to come together, otherwise the alternative for our kids is not a good one. We have an organizational meeting scheduled at the High School on November 5th at 3:30 PM and we hope you can attend.
The purpose of the November 5th meeting is to set up the organization to move this program forward. We need to fill some key positions in the organization and recruit a number of worker-bees. Unlike this program in the past, and other volunteer programs where a few volunteers take on way too much, this program has been structured for a lot of volunteers to just give a few hours to an assigned task for the program to be a success. As part of this change, our school’s Kids Tax Credit Program is now being marketed as Sedona Proud.
I have broken down all the tasks that are required to be completed into key committees with sub-committees to do the work. Each position on the committees have codes so people can volunteer for one or more specific small tasks in a committee or several committees. For example one volunteer can help procure marketing posters for the Marketing Committee (position MM1) and then work a school Kiosk for 2 hours for 2 days on the School Awareness Committee (position SPB1) and then find 3 volunteers for the Recruiting Committee (position R5).
At the November 5th meeting we need to assign tasks to move forward for this year – we are starting very late. In January we will have a meeting to review what happened and improve for 2009. An objective for this year is to have an ongoing organization. Since we are under a time crunch, we can make adjustments for next year.
The Charter School – If they want to be linked to our website, provide volunteers and contribute to the budget, great. Matthew Fiori has taken on the liaison with the Charter School and hopefully we have an answer by the November 5th meeting. We will then have to work out the logistics and it might be too much to get together for this year.
See you November 5th.
Thank you for being on our list of potential volunteers to help our school students with the tax credit program.
Zachary Richardson
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