Sister Cities Commission — Naperville, IL
Date: 2021-10-13

400 S. Eagle Street
 City of Naperville Naperville, IL 60540



 Meeting Agenda

 Sister Cities Commission

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 6:30 PM Meeting Room B




A. CALL TO ORDER:

B. ROLL CALL:

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

D. OLD BUSINESS:

Penpal Program Status (Lowe)


E. REPORTS:
 21-1180 Approve Sister Cities Commission minutes of August 11, 2021

 21-1337 Approve Sister Cities Commission minutes of September 9, 2021

 21-1187 Receive and file the Treasurer’s Report for August 2021

 21-1338 Receive and file the Treasurer’s Report for September 2021


 Chairman Fuhrer: Thank you for all your work on the first Hispanic Fest

 Councilwoman Gustin: Thank you to the Foundation & Sister Cities
 Commissioners

 Foundation Update:

 Website Update:

 Festival Update:

 Sister City Update - Cancun, Mexico


F. NEW BUSINESS:



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G. ADJOURNMENT:
 Any individual with a disability requesting a reasonable accommodation in order to
 participate in a public meeting should contact the Communications Department at least
 48 hours in advance of the scheduled meeting. The Communications Department can
 be reached in person at 400 S. Eagle Street, Naperville, IL., via telephone at
 630-420-6707 or 630-305-5205 (TDD) or via e-mail at info@naperville.il.us. Every effort
 will be made to allow for meeting participation.




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City of Naperville

 400 S. Eagle Street
 Naperville, IL 60540




Meeting Minutes - Final

 Wednesday, October 13, 2021

 6:30 PM



 Meeting Room B



Sister Cities Commission
Sister Cities Commission Meeting Minutes - Final October 13, 2021


A. CALL TO ORDER:

Lance Fuhrer called the meeting to order at 7 pm.

There was no quorum present.
B. ROLL CALL:

PRESENT: Lance Fuhrer, Alan Lowe, Bill Donofrio, Arista Wang (arrived
to the meeting late)

ALSO PRESENT:
Councilwoman Gustin, Council Liaison
Rachel Pruneda, Staff Liaison
Brent Lindstrom, Sister Cities Foundation
Patty Lindstrom, Sister Cities Foundation

There is no quorum. Sister Cities will proceed with their meeting, but will
not vote on any items. Those items will be moved to the next meeting.
 PRESENT:
 Arista Wang
 Lance Fuhrer
 Bill Donofrio
 Alan Lowe

 Sister Cities Foundation:

 Others Present:
 Councilwoman Gustin
 Rachel Pruneda


 ABSENT:
 Vidya Joshi
 Neelam Saboo
 Sophia Luo
 Peter Foyo

 There is no quorum. Commission continued to meet, but did not approve any
 items.



C. PUBLIC FORUM:

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 There is no speakers under Public Forum.

D. OLD BUSINESS:

Penpal Program Status update. Pete Foyo will connect with someone on the school board in
Mexico in order to get this project underway.

 Alan Lowe would like to hold a Webx meeting with Chief Hurtado of Cancun at a
 future date.

E. REPORTS:

 Approve Sister Cities Commission minutes of August 11, 2021

 There being no quorum, minutes will be held until the next meeting.

 Approve Sister Cities Commission minutes of September 9, 2021

 There being no quorum. The minutes will be held until the next general meeting.

 Receive and file the Treasurer’s Report for August 2021

 Neelam Saboo was not present for this meeting and there was no Treasurer's
 report to present.

 Receive and file the Treasurer’s Report for September 2021

 Neelam Saboo was not present for this meeting and therefore there was no
 Treasurer's report presented.

 Chairman Fuhrer: Thank you for all your work on the first Hispanic Fest

 Thanking the Commissioners for their work on the festival.

 Submit SECA grant in the area of $33K

 Patty: Intends to grow the Foundation. We have to engage people and bring
 everyone together.

 CW Gustin - Council was very happy with this event. NCTV did an interview for
 the event. So many positives and some rubs.

 Bill - Can we buy the video from Hispanic Fest. Can the commission purchase
 the video?




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 Councilwoman Gustin: Thank you to the Foundation & Sister Cities
 Commissioners

 CW Gustin reported that NCTV took video footage of the festival and it was well
 done and the overall feedback of the festival was positive. City Council was very
 happy with the event. We should reach out to NCTV to see about purchasing the
 video using Foundation monies.

 Foundation Update:
 Patty Lindstrom shared that the Foundation has submitted the SECA grant for
 2022.
 Patty: Strategy going forward and who we bring to the table to expand that. The
 website - There's nothing to report. There's not someone who has a budget to
 manage that. There needs to be a conversation about what that looks like.

 Alan: Website is owned by the City and the Commission.

 Lance:

 Brent: As a frame of reference.

 Patty: Clarification of what the site is. Look and feel of this year will not be the
 look and feel of next year. There are reasons that things have been slowed.

 Bill: The reason the website went up the way it did. We went to Plan B.

 Lance:



 Website Update: There has been no update on the website.

 Festival Update:

 Arista suggested that we prepare 'thank you' letters to the students that helped
 with the festival. Bill, Shruti and Arista should have this information.

 Sister City Update - Cancun, Mexico

 Alan proposed connecting with the commissioners from Cancun via zoom. He
 will connect with Cancun Fire Chief, Tom Hurtado to make these arrangements.
 Chief Hurtado has requested an agenda of items to be discussed at this meeting.
 Gustin: Ambulance has not been shipped. We are waiting for authorities in
 Mexico.




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F. NEW BUSINESS:

There was no new business to discuss.
 Sign up form for the volunteers. Get that sheet signed for service hours.
 Arista has the form.
 Send to Lucy and Shruti for signed.

 Patty: Police Services

 Belgio: They did not give a donation and charged for labor & set-up.




G. ADJOURNMENT:




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