Minutes of the FPAE Meeting, April 3, 2010

Minutes of the FPAE Meeting, April 3, 2010, Lilia’s Residence

The meeting began at 11:30 A.M.
Attendance: Celia Morales, May Acero, Lumen Castaneda, Edna Alcantara, Lilia Juele, Mercy Dungog, and Chit Ros
A suggestion to alternate the meeting venue from a Manhattan site to a member’s residence and the day from Friday to Saturday in order to minimize travel and expenses of attendees and for increased getting-to-know-you opportunities for the members. (Ex. Saturday at a member’s residence one month then in Manhattan on a Friday the following month, and a member’s place one Saturday the next month, and so on.)
FPAE Original Goal: FPAE is a collaborative group; member organizations keep their unique identity; support and help member organizations to flourish by making FPAE resources available to them.
What do we want to do? FPAE can be a clearinghouse of information, a go-to place for information that we may be able to provide re education, Filipino educators, etc. Each member organization’s web site will be linked to the FPAE blog or site.
Individual members are accepted; invite Fil-Ed of Baltimore and Filipino Teachers’ Network of Prince George (Maryland) since these two organizations wish to be a part of an umbrella group. Lilia is sending them a formal invitation to join the federation.
The development of the Task and Mission has been overdue. The current executive officers of FPAE are presidents of their own organizations and are quite busy running them. Some questions are raised, such as
How committed is each one of us to continue with FPAE?
Can we regroup so that those who can and are willing to do the work will be appointed to an office that is otherwise inactive? Lilia will contact via email all FPAE incorporators/individual members to find out about their intent to continue with their membership or position.
Next meeting will be on Friday, April 23, 2010 at the Phil. Consulate Library (if available) or Smiler’s (next to the Phil. Center) at 6:00 P.M. Agenda: Invitational get-together to inform about the federation and to network; resolve our thrust-educator or education? finalize mission statement.
The May meeting will be at Chit’s place in Ozone Park, Queens on Saturday, May 22, 2010. A get-to-know-the-members gathering is planned to take place around the third week of June.
As suggested by Mercy, here’s a complete list of the officers and members of FPAE:
National Executive Director: Lilia Juele
Executive Director for Grant Writing and Development: Vicky Rey
Executive Director for Professional Development: Pennie Badana
Executive Director for Membership, Culture, and Promotion: Lumen Castaneda
Executive Secretary: Chit Ros
Asst. Executive Secretary: Essy Malibiran
Executive Treasurer: Bella Estanislao
Asst. Executive Treasurer: Edna Alcantara
Executive Auditor: Ronie Mataquel
Asst. Executive Auditor: Celia Morales
Executive PRO: Miliza Romero
Asst. PRO: Mina Torralba
Executive Business Managers: Linda Castiglioni/Joel Agustin
Board Member: May Acero, Mercy Dungog, Belen Castillo

* The meeting adjourned at 1:15 P.M.

Prepared by Chit Ros