Meeting was called to order by Secretary Sharon Freitas due to the absence of both the Chairperson and the Vice-chair. Jackie Linn, Chair is out of town on a business trip and Kathy Patterson could not get a sub so she could leave her classroom.

The following were present: Barbara Branch (SCUSD), Jordan White (Galt ESD), Deb Gilchrist (Buckeye USD), Ginny Bateman (FCUSD), Kim Baioni (Center JUSD), Nancy Bodenhausen (Woodland USD), Sharon Glover (Rio Linda USD), Valerie Himes (San Juan USD), Susan Macaluso (Rescue USD), Marsha Mobley Kilian (M. Charter-Rocklin), Marilyn Roessler(Rocklin).

The minutes of the February 7 Luncheon and the March 7 business meeting were approved by a motion by B.Branch and a second by K.Baioni. It was discussed that minutes be sent only to those who were not in attendance and further discussion be held about not mailing minutes due to the availability of all minutes on the organization’s website..

Treasurer B. Branch indicated via email that there was $1,828.17 in the savings and $1,413.73 in the checking. All bills submitted have been paid.

CAG Reports:

Jordan White, CAG educator rep for this region stated that CAG is currently awaiting the results of the election for the Board for the next two years as well as the financial report from the Conference held in Palm Springs. Ballots were sent to all CAG members and are returned to a "counting house" that will report the final results to the CAG Board. He mentioned that the CAG Board will be meeting in Anaheim on May 31 through June 2, 2002. Jordan welcomed Marcia Mobley Kilian who has applied for the open position of the Parent Rep from this CAG region.

In discussing the conference, it was suggested that a box be put on the Call to Presenters’ form where the presenter could indicate if their session was for novices or advanced participants. Also could indicate if the presentation was hands-on and a practical type of workshop. This suggestion will be passed onto the next conference committee to discuss.

One of the most popular speakers at the conference was Susan Winebrenner. She will be presenting in Folsom-Cordova in December and Galt in January. 2003. It was discussed how to piggyback these sessions with a weekend one for local parents. More discussion on this at the next meeting.

No CAG-PAC report due to Jackie Linn being absent.:

The local Classrooms in Action summer session is being planned with 37 teachers and 94 children signed up as of this meeting. (the number of teachers allowed will be 45 – it is now full).

A meeting to work on materials, budget and details will be held on Monday, April 22 at 10:30 am in the Folsom-Cordova GATE office – call Ginny Batemen at 985-3024 if you want to attend & need directions.

More parents are needed to actually offer the Parent half day seminar. This will be discussed at length at the next meeting.

A SENG facilitators training will be held in Sacramento on June 20-21 with Dr. Jim Webb in charge. See attached flyer for registration information. On Thursday evening, June 20, he will need a large group of parents (80-100) to participate in model groups with the facilitators being trained. A flyer will be developed to invite folks in for this free evening as soon as a location is obtained. .

B.Branch reported on her and Nancy Craig’s trip to Texas for training. She indicated that there were a lot of great materials given to them and she will be sharing these at a future meeting. The materials are the result of a Javits grant and she will bring the Identification Tools to distribute at the next meeting in May.

Academic Talent Search – Dr. Thomas, Director of both the ATS and the ACE programs at CSUS was not present. However Sharon Freitas asked the group to discuss making a donation to the ATS scholarship fund. The minutes do not indicate that this has been done during the present year. B.Branch moved that $500 be allowed at this time, it was seconded by K.Baioni and approved by those present. The check will be presented at the next meeting when both the Chair of this group and Dr. Thomas are expected to attend..

There was a discussion on Visually Impaired Gifted – S.Freitas offered to find a booklet she had from the Federal Government entitled Gifted At Risk which was related. She will bring it to the next meeting.

Barbara Branch passed out samples of how she and Nancy Craig are writing their GATE application in order to reflect the new GATE Standards. Their use of the columns seemed to be concise and easier than text – she will send samples via email to all interested. Contact her at drbabs@earthlink.net..