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埃德蒙顿重建四川小学筹款进展汇报并邀请大家参加市府议政
! \2 m, e& L2 V1 T0 F& o: D4 N$ u) Q感谢大家的一直关心和关注,以下是最近一次会议记录。请注意红色字体部分,9月29日市政府将讨论我们让市府拨款8万加元到这个项目的申请,OMNI 中文电视台记者也会到场。希望我们社区有70人参加。讨论有可能是在白天,也有可能是晚上。具体时间敬请等待通知。
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; Z7 ]! V3 O+ oChina Quake Relief Rebuild School in Sichuan Committee0 r R/ N2 N+ |& M
Meeting minutes for Sept 4
3 d$ x: j0 z i# [4 P(Please note, this is the meeting minutes for Sept 4 plus the progress after the meeting till now)6 G5 I0 C' j+ i0 j9 ]9 O9 u( J2 {: _
1 `0 p# _8 A7 oTime : 9 pm
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, s9 _# R7 L$ W- Y( L9 xAttendance: Art Zhang, Sharon Zhang, Michael Phair, Franksoccer, Florence Yeung, Hubert Hsu0 j+ x8 f" q, T0 C6 ~
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0 O1 a& i/ {0 s }! w1. Hubert reports:
7 j$ J9 p- ^& P/ B. u: E. dThe progress of the collection for Sponsorship fee from the Chinese community - 30 of the sponsor groups submitted their $500 cheque except one organization. This week, the last one also send their cheque to Chinese Students & Scholars Association at U of A. Robin Hao will arrange CSSA to send a $500 cheque to our treasurer (Sharon). So we finished and completed this task.5 y, X7 k$ N* P8 x g; y! C
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2. Michael Phair reports:
! M) C5 j) v1 ]8 m* o9 B# R9 WThe Fund Raising Banquet on Aug. 23 - The banquet on Aug. 23 was very successful. It was organized by Florence Liew. Mary Lu was the MC. Michael Phair represented our committee to receive the cheque from them. They announced on the Chinese newspaper that they donated $11934.08 to us. When Sharon Zhang double checked and counted the cheques. We only received $11,369 from Michael. Yesterday, Michael sent a message to Sharon. Florence Liew confirmed that they only sent $11,369 to us. Hubert Hsu will send a 'Notice' to the Chinese newspaper. The Notice will indicate that we received $11,369 from Florence Liew, and appreciation to Florence and her company for supporting our Rebuild School Fund Raising. Please note, the Fund Raising Banquet was not organized by us.
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3. Don Iveson will make a motion to city council on Sept 17 for City of Edmonton to donate $80,000 to Rebuild School Project. At this time, Mayor Mandel is very support this ideal at this moment. The City council will debate this motion on Sept 29. We need a lobby group to work on the city councilors. Hubert suggested the following : Since Florence Yeung and Robin Hao are our PR and spokespersons, so these two ladies will join the lobby team. Mary Lu, Art Zhang and Hubert Hsu should also join the group if they have time. Michael will arrange and set up the meeting for the lobby group. Michael also suggested that we should invite some well known Chinese community leaders into our lobby group. Hubert suggested that we should consider our sponsor group first. In this two weeks, Hubert contacted Frank Gee(Chairman of Chinese Benevolent Association - CBA), Henry Fung(Chairman of Edmonton Chinatown Multicultural Centre- ECMC) and Barbra Fung (represent Alberta Chinese Cultural Society -ACCS & Chinese Free Mason - CFM). They all accept the invitation to join the lobby group.
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The above new members (Frank Gee, Henry Fung and Barbra Fung) to join the lobby group were approved by Florence Yeung , Art Zhang, Sharon Zhang and Robin Hao (telephone conversation and meeting on Sept 15 Robin's new Bubble Tea Shop ). J$ ^$ s* x$ {9 X7 M0 j
- U8 M6 N, H4 nFlorence Yeung, please coordinate with Frank Gee about any meeting come up for the lobby group.
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4. Michael Phair suggested that we invite lots of people to show up on Sept 29's debate. Art supposed to coordinate this with Laoyang and his www.edmontonchina.com. We need around 70 people to join the city council on Sept 29.
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' r* _# B0 Q1 x# \2 o I, d5. We need our Chairman Michael Phair to write a letter to request Chinese Benevolent Association(CBA) to donate $5,000 to our project. Sept 28 will be the CBA meeting. Michael, will you have time at 1 pm Sept 28 to CBA for this meeting? together with your letter. I will go with you to join this meeting too. Florence Yeung will make a motion for this request. Barbra Fung also will help for this motion.
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6. In the meeting, we suggested Florence Yeung to contact Dave Hancock for this Rebuild School Project. Since Barbara Fung also has good relationship with Dave Hancock. Hubert recommended both ladies working together on this area.+ A$ n/ \3 G% r& K; {7 E
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7. The bank August statement come in. We have to pass it to Ed Lam so that he can finish his audit. |
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