CFC
Cabinet Meeting
Minutes of May 17, 2006
USDA Beacon Complex
Mokhtee Ahmad, FTA
Sharon Al-Uqdah, APWW
Michael Anthony, USMC
Lee Cason, IRS
Rob Cowan, DHS-NBC
Pat Clyma, SSA
Linda Day, USPS
Melvin Hawkins, NTEU #264
Andrea Henry, AFGE
Cindy Hillman, FEB
Larry Hisle, CFC
Mike Jaromin, DHI-CIS
Matt Mitchell, USDA
Samm Skare, GSA
Carol Starnes, VA Med
Leslie Tritten, DHS-NBC
Bill Turbitt, USDA
Alternates & Others:
Holly Ross, SSA for Ethel Johnson,
Welcome & Introduction – Rob Cowan & Sharon
Al-Uqdah:
Rob & Sharon
thanked the cabinet members for being involved in the campaign this
year. Each
member in attendance introduced themselves and their management/labor
counterparts.
Labor Cabinet Update – Sharon Al-Uqdah:
·
Reported on the Union Partnership Meeting held on April 27th
·
The purpose of the Union Partnership Council is to secure the support of
representatives from more than 20 area federal employee unions.
·
Up-dating of the Union Listing is an on-going process
·
Labor Division Co-Chairs with make peer calls on the Bargaining Units in
their area. Labor Co-Coordinators
were to be encouraged in all Agency Head Calls
·
Upcoming meeting will take place in July.
Agency Head Training & Calls – each Division
Chair:
Mike Jaromin (DHS-CIS)
reported that he attended the Agency Head Training at the
Each Division was asked to report out on their
progress on contacting the Agency Heads in
their respective Divisions.
Division
0:
·
Gary Beets, FMS and Lee Cason, IRS, are in the process of setting up
agency head visits. No visits
have been completed as of yet.
·
Lee Cason, IRS, will be the LE for this division.
Division
1:
·
Mike Jaromin (DHS-CIS) had made numerous calls to encourage
participation at the Leaders Breakfast. A
Loaned Executive has been committed from EPA, but no name has been submitted.
Division
2:
·
Ethel Johnson (SSA) and Team Leaders from Social Security &
HHS are in the process of setting up agency head visits.
·
There are two Team Leaders from Social Security and Fred Schuster from
Dept of Health & Human Services will be making these calls.
·
Pat Clyma (SSA) will be the LE for this division
·
Mokhtee Ahmad (FTA) and Debbie Danner (FAA), will
have scheduled remaining agency head visits, to be completed by the end
of June.
·
Debbie Danner (FAA) will be the LE for this division.
· Bill Turbitt
and Matt Mitchell (USDA) are working these accounts.
No visits have been completed as of yet, but are actively making calls to
encourage attendance at the May 25th Breakfast.
· Matt Mitchell
(USDA), will be the LE for this division.
·
Will report at next meeting.
·
Terry Penland and Carla Clay (USPS), will be the LE’s for this
division.
·
Mike Anthony (USMC) and Ed Kolodziej (USACE)
are making these calls.
·
No
appointments have been set up, but the bulk will be called the first part of
June. They
have already mailed letters to every agency
·
Ed Kolodziej (USACE) will be the LE for this division.
·
An Agency Head Breakfast has been scheduled for May 25th.
35 agencies in the population of 50 to 499 employees have been invited.
Agency Heads in attendance will
receive a customized packet of material that provides information on their
agency’s past CFC results (participation, funds raised, etc.)
·
Spreadsheets for tracking accounts will be sent out for completion by
the Division Chairs & Loaned Executives.
·
All completed Agency Head Agenda forms should be sent back to Larry.
·
Goals for each Division and overall CFC goal will be done at the July
CFC Cabinet Meeting.
·
Agency Head Call Sheets need to have the campaign coordinator identified
by late May/early June.
·
Get commitment from the agency head.
·
Identify agencies who have employees that are retiring, early outs or
layoffs.
Committee
Reports:
●
Awards & Recognition – Larry Hisle for Nadine Johnson
The cabinet was
reminded of what was approved at the April Cabinet meeting and a PowerPoint was
presented on the items
·
5’ tape measure
for all Coordinators and Canvasser
·
Lunchbox Set as a post
gift to the Coordinators
·
Give Smart Card for all
Donors
·
Pillar Club Pins for 1%
or $390 Donors
·
Commander Coins for 2%
or $650 Donors
·
●
Communications –Larry Hisle for Patrick Bustos
We
would like to remind the cabinet that “Hope Lives
… When You Give” is our
theme
for this year.
We will begin filming for the local piece for the video.
Some areas which we hope to cover:
·
Day of Caring volunteer events
·
Check presentation at
·
Activities at local non-profits
·
Golf Tournaments, SSA’s
Golf Tournament Event on June 19th at St Andrew’s Golf Course;
Buck O’Neil will be the special guest
·
Special Olympics Games in
Needs
from the committee:
Graphic
design
Local Film
Web Design
Newsletter
Brochure Design
Media
Please contact Patrick
Bustos with any comments or suggestions.
●
Eligibility Status –Samm Skare
·
Eligibility Committee
has completed its review for this year.
·
The final review of
appeals was Thursday, May 18th. There
is still a possibility of appeals going to OPM in
·
This year we had 24
volunteers from various federal agencies served on the committee.
·
This year we had a
total of 321 local agencies approved to be included in the campaign.
P.S. At the May 18th
Eligibility Meeting, 4 appeals from applications which were not approved, were
reviewed again. All 4 decisions for
sustained. The order of the
federations and local un-affiliated was randomly drawn and will be listed in the
following order in the 2006 Catalog for Caring.
Community Health Charities of
Heart of
Local Un-Affiliated Agencies
Bi-County United Way of Cass & Jackson, Inc.
United Way of
Earth Share of
United Way of
Events – Larry Hisle:
· Kick-off
·
The Kick-off Committee met on Tuesday,
May 16th
·
We do need to do some recruiting to boost the numbers of volunteers for
this
activity.
·
The planned date for this event is Wednesday, September 20th once
again
at
the
·
Christine Allen, GSA is chairing this committee this year.
·
The plan is to invite those
committee members back who participated last
year,
or ask for replacements. We also
will be inviting volunteers from
the
federal agencies to participate this year.
·
More detailed information will be available at the next meeting.
· Golf Tournament
·
CFC Championship Golf Tournament has been scheduled for October 9th
(Columbus
Day).
·
Tim Gosnell form GSA is once again helping us with this.
·
We are hoping to have Eagle’s Landing host this again.
·
Save-the-date messages will be sent to all campaign coordinators.
·
More detailed information will be available at the next meeting.
· Training
Committee - Recruitment & Workshops – Nadine Johnson & Melvin Hawkins
·
Melvin Hawkins and Nadine Johnson have agreed to co-chair this committee.
·
Campaign Coordinators’ names need to be identified by the end of
May/June.
·
Two Campaign Coordinator trainings are coming up on August 2nd at
Alphapointe and on August 10th at The Gem Theater.
·
Will be changing the format on both workshops.
A powerpoint presentation
will be part of the training.
LE
Training
·
CFC LE Training will be done separately again this year from
·
Need to Complete and confirm
training locations for the Loaned Executive training.
·
The following Speakers are needed for the LE Training – Sales Training,
Communication Skills, and Marketing Skills.
·
Former LE’s will be used as Speakers.
·
If you have a speaker in mind or if you would like to volunteer for this,
please forward that information to Larry at Larry.Hisle@gsa.gov
or call at 816-823-2010.
Other Discussion
Discussed
earlier in the meeting. A special
agency head breakfast has been scheduled for May 25th at the Phillips
Hotel in downtown
When
the complete regulation changes are released, it was suggested to have a special
meeting regarding these proposed changes.
Day
of Caring Update
·
Currently have 56 federal agencies and labor groups at 79 locations
volunteering for Day of Caring.
·
Day of Caring is Saturday, June 24th.
CFC
Catalog & Materials
The
Catalog was discussed and a motion was made to go away from the bonded Catalog
to a newspaper tabloid lay out.
The
pledge card was discussed and a decision to create a larger pledge card was made
(1/2 page vs. 1/3) and to retain the cover for the pledge card.
Sponsorships
for 2006 Campaign
·
A request has been made to GEHA to sponsor the CFC Victory Awards
Breakfast.
Ps.
GEHA has responded and agreed to support us again this year
·
A request has been made to Blue Cross and Blue Shield to be a sponsor for
our Kick-off.
·
Letters have been sent out to hotels requesting donations for the
upcoming campaign.
·
Cabinet Members are urged to share ideas of possible sponsors for this
year
Upcoming
events
Agency
Head Breakfast
May 25th
June Cabinet Meeting
June 21st
Agency Head Calls completed
by June 30
Day of Caring
June 24
Campaign Coordinator Workshop
August 2
Campaign Coordinator Workshop
August 10