Location: Margery's House, El Cerrito Attendance: Margery, Bill, Chris, Natasha, Ryan, Mel, Juan (phone) Notes by Ryan Clark Retreat Recap- ICO Dream follow-up meeting scheduled for February 21.
- Margery: Many (not all) of the 2011 goals achieved.
- Great class of new G-guides!
Season without Chicken- Need a new lead for Instructor Training
- Bill is seeking a replacement Instructor Training
- Bill has called Delton, Damien, and Anja. Waiting for return calls.
- Also need a TL for March 10-11 Tune-up/Instructor Training combination.
- We need more trainers. The BTs are thin on Trainers.
- Need someone to lead Beyond Basics training.
- Margery will lead one BB trip: May 5-6.
- The other BB trip needs a TL. will likely cancel. Maybe that's okay; we don't want to burn out before the season starts.
- We still have to address his Participant groups.
Selection & RecruitingHow many new applicants can we take?
- We already have two returning Basic Trainees (Corey and Jesus)
- We already have three Advanced Basic Trainees (Dave, Zach, Kristie).
- Trainer and Trip Leader resources are thin.
- Bill believes that we can handle 8 total (non-Advanced) Basic Trainees.
- It will be challenging.
- That means 6 new recruits MAX. (There are 9 applicants)
Scholarship ModelAre encouraging the wrong kind of trip? - Current scholarship model is $500 per trip, regardless of length or size.
- Does this encourage small, one-day trips?
- Scholarship goal is simplicity.Often scholarship is not used.
- Many Trip Leaders do encourage two-day trips.
- Group chaperone logistics are often a bigger obstacle than trip costs.
- Often the choice is a one-day trip or no trip at all.
- Use of scholarship funds is increasing.
- As awareness increases, change policy to encourage multi-day trips?
- More precise numbers would be useful.
- Let's discuss again in the near future.
SOPs Meeting- Temporarily on hold.
- Lots of other important meetings going on.
- Don't want to distract with other stuff going on in ICO
- Don't want burnout
- Want good turnout.
- A reminder about SOPs-Discuss would be helpful.
- Discuss ICO Dreams are regular monthly meetings?
- Positive, open-ended way of getting people involved and energized.
- Much more engaging that SOPs discussions.
Off-River Jobs- Lots of off-river jobs to fill.
- Jon would like to step back from both Finance and Fundraising Coordinator. Replacements welcome!
- Lots of volunteers in transition (injuring, relocation, etc)
- Will be an on-going challenge this year.
Next Meetings- Steering Committee Meetings
- Regular Monthly Meeting
- April 4, 2012 at Margery's House
- May 2, 2012
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