NYSFAAA Region VI
The following individuals attended the holiday meeting:
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Hassan Adams |
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Anita Algernon |
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Fiona Approo |
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Amanda Baright |
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William Berrios |
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Bill Cavin |
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Jim Cirillo |
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Chris Constable |
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Jason Cook |
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Dzelika Daniel |
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Daffodil Dennis |
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Patricia Donowski |
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Nalini Dyal |
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Tracy Ercetin |
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Angelica Esparza |
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Lori Farrior |
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Mildred Figueroa |
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Barry Fischer |
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Mina Friedman |
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Socorro Gago |
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Dawn Germano |
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Brian Ghanoo |
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Martha Giannasio |
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Theresa Gieseke |
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Ed Gilbert |
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Donna Gill |
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Mark Goldstein |
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Leany Gomez |
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Ed Gonzalez |
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Janet Gray |
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Lorrinza
Grazette-Jordan |
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Janet Gray |
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Luis Guaman |
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Juana Ham |
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Gary Hayes |
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Judy Hernandez |
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Clair Jacobi |
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Anthea Jeffrey |
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Anne Johnson |
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Edward Keough |
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Kermit Kook |
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Tom Kokis |
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Anna Kopit |
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Beatrice LaRue |
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Howard Leslie |
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Joanna Liadis |
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Brian Matthews |
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Jeanne McCarthy |
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Sharon McMillian |
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Eugene Monroe |
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Ben Morales |
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Michael Morozuk |
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Alex Ormeno |
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Jaimes Perez |
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Miriam Perez |
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Anthony Pizzuti |
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Ann Planell |
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Aristalia
Rodriguez |
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Patti Ronan |
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Ivette Rosa |
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Rick Ross |
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Jefferey Sampson |
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Jason Santora |
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Julieta Schiffino |
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Kenneth Seabrooks |
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Vera Senese |
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Lisa Simpson |
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Brenda Smith |
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Henry Solorzano |
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Ken Storms |
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Steven Sweet |
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Carole Taylor |
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Michael Taylor |
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Erika Terwilliger |
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Mary
Torres-Erickson |
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Angela Van Dekker |
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Oscar Vasquez |
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Xavier Vega |
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Eddie Viera |
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Barbara Wakie |
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Joe Waldron |
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Savior Wright |
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Tsering Yankey |
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Frances Zuringa |
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If by chance anyone was
inadvertently added or omitted from the attendance list, please contact Shelley
Worrell (sworrell@gc.cuny.edu).
Anna Kopit welcomed
everyone and thanked everyone for attending.
Steve Sweet distributed
and briefly spoke about the HESC update.
Mary Torres-Erickson spoke
about the Region VI survey. It is a
vehicle through which region VI members can indicate what they want to see/hear
at meetings as well as a chance to voice their concerns. Only 48 members of
Region VI replied. The survey will be
sent out again. Anna Kopit pointed out that there are almost 500 members in the
region and it’s inexcusable that only 48 replied.
Angela VanDekker gave an Executive Council Report.
Regional funding - The proposal for funding of regional activities for one
transitional year was approved. It gives
an additional $10 per member revenue sharing to each region, to be paid in
November following the conference. If a regional treasury falls below $2500,
the region can apply for more funds if they come back to Council with a
legitimate request.
With $30,500 sponsorship, roughly $14,000 already
planned in standard Revenue Sharing and the $16,000 already available ($1000
Training and $1000 Support Staff), on request, $60,500 is available for
Regional events statewide. 6 regions have submitted budgets totaling just
under $42,000. There are also remaining balances in all of the Regional budgets
(some sizable). So there should be adequate funding for Regional activities.
After the "evaluation year," the process
will be reviewed. This plan appears to offer some ease for the State Treasurer,
preserves significant Regional autonomy, yet provides for variations in
Regional costs and the Tri-Regional. This also avoids Exec Council micro
managing every Regional initiative.
Committees that are working on
projects may now use NYSFAAA’s corporate BJ card. The Treasurer has the card.
My Rich Uncle was not allowed to
buy space at NYSFAAA’s Conference since they were not a member.
All Executive Council members
solicited feed back on the Proposed Statement of Principles. The region 6
comments from the September meeting and from the list serve are being presented
to Executive Council. Feedback can still
be sent.
Exec Council meetings are open to
anyone who wants to attend.
The next meeting is at the
Marriott Courtyard in
Executive Council Meetings will no
longer take place down state due to the cost. (since
this meeting there has been a change to this statement. There will most likely
be a meeting on
There is a new Ethics and
Professional Standards Committee.
James Cirillo shared a
brief summary of the first meeting of the Ethics and Professional Standards
Committee in
The chairs of the committee are
Mark Humbert of SUNY Oswego and Doug Schaeffer of T.H.E. However, Dave Canaski
(NYSFAAA President) ran the meeting and made all of the proposals. Dave wants
to separate NYSFAAA’s revenue into two categories. These are operating funds (dues, fees, money
for advertising) and donated funds. He
then wants to separate our functions into two categories as well. Functions will be categorized as either
Administrative (dealing primarily with the internal operation of NYSFAAA
itself) or Mission Driven (dealing primarily with the Association’s charitable,
training, and outreach efforts.
His proposal is that the
administrative functions (including the conference) are funded solely by
operating funds and mission driven functions are to be funded by
donations. This makes it nearly
impossible for there to ever be another conference south of
expensive here compared to upstate.
I was the only Region VI person at
this meeting. Although no vote was
taken, no one else made any comments questioning these ideas in any way. I feel we need to take more time before going
forward with this and a larger group of members should be involved. I am asking that more region VI members get
involved in this committee. This is just
one of many issues this committee will be working on.
For now, all of the meetings are
going to be in
You can email me at cirillo@fordham.edu if you have questions. You can also email the chairs of the
committee at humbert@oswego.edu
and Douglas.schaeffer@theloanprogram.org.
Anna Kopit called
Brian Ghanoo – In
closing, Brian thanked everyone for being patient and for coming. He also
thanked the sponsors and read their names which were printed on the last page
of the agenda.