Sister Cities Commission — Naperville, IL
Date: 2022-07-13

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



 Meeting Agenda

 Sister Cities Commission

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 6:30 PM Meeting Rooms A & B




A. CALL TO ORDER:

B. ROLL CALL:

C. PUBLIC FORUM:

D. OLD BUSINESS:

E. REPORTS:

SISTER CITY FOUNDATION UPDATE - SHAFEEK ABUBAKER

HISPANIC FEST UPDATE:

GENERAL: LANCE FUHRER

MARKETING - BILL DONOFRIO

ENTERTAINMENT - SOPHIA LUO

AWARD CEREMONY - BECKY RUDOLPH

COUNCILWOMAN GUSTIN UPDATE:

TREASURER'S REPORT: NEELAM SABOO

SISTER CITY UPDATE: ALAN LOWE


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, July 13, 2022

 6:30 PM



 Meeting Rooms A & B



Sister Cities Commission
Sister Cities Commission Meeting Minutes - Final July 13, 2022


A. CALL TO ORDER:

 Chairman Fuhrer called the meeting to order at 6:38 p.m.

B. ROLL CALL:

 PRESENT:
 Yuqin Wang
 Bill Donofrio
 Sophia Luo
 Neelam Saboo arrived at the meeting at 6:58 p.m.
 Lance Fuhrer
 Becky Randolph

 ABSENT:
 Peter Foyo
 Vidya Joshi
 Neelam Saboo
 Alan Lowe

 OTHERS PRESENT:
 Councilwoman Gustin,
 Rachel Pruneda
 Shafeek Abubaker, Sister Cities Foundation
 Tina Ciu, Sister Cities Foundation




C. PUBLIC FORUM:

 PUBLIC FORUM SPEAKER:
 Nena Menis, KidsMatter Director thanked Sister Cities for participating in the kite
 festival.

D. OLD BUSINESS:

E. REPORTS:

SISTER CITY FOUNDATION UPDATE - SHAFEEK ABUBAKER

 POSITION APPOINTMENTS TO THE FOUNDATION:
 Shafeek Abubaker, President
 Neelam Saboo, Treasurer
 Tina Cui, Recording Secretary
HISPANIC FEST UPDATE:

GENERAL: LANCE FUHRER


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 Chairman Fuhrer went through the budget line item by line item to make sure
 that we are on budget.
MARKETING - BILL DONOFRIO

 Bill Donofrio reported that to submit an article to Positively Naperville, cost will
 be $1000. This costs covers an ad in August for a 1/4 page, in September an
 1/8 of a page and 1/2 page column (article) in October and November.

 Labor Day Parade has a $200 entry fee, plus we would want to purchase 2500
 post cards to market the festival. We will also use facebook to advertise the
 festival, as well as the website.

 Bill is working with Acura to display/market their vehicle at the festival. He has
 also been meeting with the park district and the city to make sure that
 placement of a vehicle(s) at the festival is prohibited and to determine where the
 vehicle(s) should be placed.

 Bill is working with Cancun Visitors Bureau to provide chefs, artist or performer
 to come out during the festival. More information will follow as it becomes
 available.


ENTERTAINMENT - SOPHIA LUO

 The entertainers that have been booked will be linked on the Hispanic Festival
 website page. If the entertainers require a down payment, Neelam will complete
 the required form and submit it to Dawn Portner. This money will come from our
 SECA grant.

 Rachel Pruneda is looking into a deejay for the event and will report on her
 findings at the next meeting.
AWARD CEREMONY - BECKY RUDOLPH

 Becky Randolph will be working on the award nominees and report back to
 Commission.
COUNCILWOMAN GUSTIN UPDATE:

 Councilwoman Gustin reported that the ambulance that was going to Cancun
 went to Ukraine. CW Gustin plans to talk to the Mayor about attendance at our
 meetings and work with him to fill any openings on the Commission.



TREASURER'S REPORT: NEELAM SABOO

 There has been no changes in the Sister Cities budget.

SISTER CITY UPDATE: ALAN LOWE

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 Alan Lowe was not present at this meeting.

F. NEW BUSINESS:

G. ADJOURNMENT:

 Meeting adjourned at 8:20 pm.




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