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=__**Meeting: March 14th 2012**__ =

__//Absentees//__ Allecion Peters Delicia Adonis Akram Ally Samantha Smith Aruna Deonanan Charlene Newton

At our first meeting with Ms.Verbena Wilburg, our community project lecturer, we were briefed on what our community project entails. Ms. Verbena emphasised on the spirit of giving. She said,"It's not about writing a cheque but it is the involvement, cooperation and hard work of members that embodies the spirit of giving." On this day, Ms. Verbena chose Ms.Maxine Rowe as the group leader and identified some of her roles and responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities included: Persons were also selected for a writing group. The names of those persons in that group are: They are responsible for taking the minutes and making log entries on the wikispaces website. This is for future reference and to keep members up-to-date with the progress of the community project.
 * Holding meetings in the absence of Ms. Verbena
 * Updating Ms.Verbena on plans, progress and any difficulty the group might encounter.
 * Reva Mentor
 * Dollet Williams
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Natasha Hodge
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Marshella Griffith
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allecion Peters
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Leona Jathoo

=<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__**Meeting: March 19th 2012**__ =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">//__Absentees__// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Delicia Adonis

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">In the second meeting, a number of issues were discussed. We were able to establish sub-teams to help with the smooth flow of our community project. The teams selected includes: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Members of the sales team are: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Samantha Smith was was identified as the leader for this team.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">A sales team
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">A banner team
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">An evaluation team
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Natasha Hodge
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allecion Peters
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Samantha Smith
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Charlene Newton
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Latisha Bowman
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Shameka Roberts

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Members of the banner team are: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The leader for this team is Anicie Campbell.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Anicie Campbell
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reena Kumar
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Marshella Griffith
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tonya Jones
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Latoya Qunintyne

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Members of the evaluation team are: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">In this meeting, suggestions were also made for items to be placed on sale. Some of these items are: channa, plantain chips, fudge, pastries, cake, fruit juice, roti and curry, puri, cheese straws, brownies, white pudding,egg ball, mattai, etc. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">This meeting was very fruitful,since it took us one step closer towards meeting our goal.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Samantha Smith
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maxine Rowe
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Aruna Deonanan
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Akram Ally
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Delicia Adonis

=<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__**Meeting: March 21st 2012**__ =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">//__Absentees__// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Anicie Campbell <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tonya Jones <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allecion Peters

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The community project meeting commenced at 14:00pm. The leader of the group informed the members that were absent for the previous class about plans which were made for the project. Ms. Maxine also explained to the members about the importance of team work. The writing team was asked to give an update on the progress of the report. She advised members of the various sub-groups to take their responsibilities serious, since it is very essential for the success of the project. Each group was encouraged to start working on their different duties. For example, the members of the banner team were advised to start putting their ideas together on what should be written on the banner and they were also asked to find out the prices for the materials needed.. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Suggestions were also made to assist in the executing of the project. Some of these include: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The meeting adjourned at 15:15pm.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">to ask for donation from organizations to assist with the preparation of the sales;
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">additional items for the sale were suggested- macaroni and cheese, polourie

=<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__Meeting: Marc____h 23rd 2012__ =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">//__Absentees__// <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allecion Peters <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Aruna Deonanan <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Charlene Newton <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Samantha Smith

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">This meeting commenced at 12:30, Ms. Verbena asked members of the group if they were able to join the website. In response, some members expressed that they have not joined as yet. She implored others to join the site. After the writing team expressed that they were having difficulty in posting the report on the website, Ms. Verbena did an adjustment to the website and demonstrated how to edit the wikispaces. Members were now able to post and comment on the website.The writing team was advised to start placing the minutes on the wikispaces website. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ms. Maxine took the opportunity to find out about a suggestion, which was made by a team member, in relation to receiving donations from organizations but Ms. Verbena said "it should be done using our own strength". <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this meeting, group members were told that the purpose of their community project was to build twelve cubicles for the research department of the library. Members were advised to get an estimate for the twelve cubicles and a photograph of the cubicles, from the previous community project group, was promised to us by Ms. Verbena. We were reminded that before we can start our community project we needed to write letters. For example, a letter to the Vice Principle of Curriculum stating what the project entails. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this gathering, the leader expressed some issues that the group was facing and Ms. Verbena provided solutions.

<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 24px;">__Meeting for March 26th, 2012__ <span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__//Absent//__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allicion Peters

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The meeting among community project members commenced precisely at eleven hours in the morning. Mrs Rowe, group leader, was the facilitator of this meeting.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The meeting was opened by remarks from the leader. She welcomed members and thanked them for making an effort to be present at the meeting. Following that, she recapped what was discussed at the previous meeting. Some things that were mentioned in her recapitulation were: food sales will be held at April and May month end, the concern proposed by Seventh Day Adventists team members was addressed, shirts as well as t. shirts can be worn on day of sales, providing that they do not have any writings at all, etc.

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The leader then advised members to begin editing the work posted on the wiki spaces website since the contribution of each member in every area of the project is vital and most importantly because Miss Wilburg will be monitoring each member’s contribution closely.

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">After the leader was finished with her remarks she opened the floor for members to make suggestions, state difficulties (if any) or highlight any concerns that they may want to clarity on. Miss Campbell, leader of the banner group, suggested that oil paint should be used instead of water paint on the banners. She added that oil paint will survive in case of rainy weather. The group leader then told the banner group that two banners were needed; one banner for each location.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this point in the meeting, members were asked to pay attention on the chalk board where the leader had written the names of each member and to which group they belonged to. Two new groups were formed; a history group and a logistics group and some members were also shifted to other groups. In addition, the leader gave an overview of the role and responsibilities of members within each group. The names of groups and members are as follows:

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">History Group <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">– Dollet Williams (leader), Reva Mentor, Charlene Newton, and Aruna Deonanan. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Logistics Group <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">– Akram Ally (leader), Maxine Rowe and the members of the banners team. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Evaluation Group <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Maxine Rowe (leader), Marshella Griffith and Samantha Smith. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Banner Group <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Anicie Campbell (leader), Reena Kumar, Tonya Jones and Lotoya Quintin. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Sales Group <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">- Charlene Newton, Latisha Bowman, Samantha Smith (Leader), Natasha Hodge, Delicia Adonis, Shemeka Roberts and Allicion Peters.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The members of the writing group remained the same.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Members were now aware of changes made by the group leader and took notes of those changes. They were asked by the group leader to meet in sub- groups and discuss plans and propose ideas for effective functioning in each group. Before members met in groups the leader read quotes based on team work and cooperation. She said that we should keep quotes in mind as we were preparing to meet in our groups. The discussion in each group lasted twenty minutes and the leaders reported on plans proposed by members in each group. For example: the leader of the history group informed members of some things the team will be including in the history report; founder, past and present population, etc. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The meeting was called to a close by the leader after she thanked everyone for attending and for their valuable contributions.

=<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__Meeting: March 28th 2012__ =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__//Absentees//__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Aruna Deonanan <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Leona Jathoo <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Samantha Smith

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">At the commencement of the meeting Ms. Verbina Wilburg asked if anyone was still having problems joining the wikispaces website. In response, Allecion Peters said "yes, she was having problems joining the site". Ms Wilburg told Allecion that she should ask the assistance of her colleagues, since no one should refuse to help, and if she is still having difficulties then she should approach her. The facilitator informed the group that she was unable to print the pictures of the sample cubicles for us to see, but she has them on her laptop so we can view them there. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The group was also told that the cubicles do not have to be of the same style as the ones that the previous community project group built. It can be of a different style, one of our choice. In addition, she told the group the amount of money needed for the project will depend solely on the style of cubicles we selected since our general consensus is hosting too big food sale at the end of April and May 2012. Further, she shared with us which items went lightly for the previous community project group food sales. Items such as roti and curry, plantain chips, mattai, etc. She also said, that they had a punch whole game but although it made quick money, the group reported that it was tiresome and embarrassing; they had to walk from class to class enduring many harsh comments from persons. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">At this meeting, the community project lecturer notified the group that they were responsible for financing whatever items are placed on the food sale. Ms Wilburg, reminded the group that as much as it may seem like the college is not doing anything for us, except excessive work and stress, the college is in fact giving alot of things. This includes the tools that will make us seasoned teachers when we go out into the schools. Whatever the college is giving us is priceless, and what we are doing now (community project) is our form of giving back to the college. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The facilitator, also briefed the history group on what the history part of the report should entail. It should have the following details: <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ms Wilburg then promised the history group a document prepared by the International Development Bank (IDB) containing a brief history on the college to assist them with their writing up. She also promised the entire group to send the picture of the cubicles that they have chosen to the group leader's email address.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">When the college started
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Who the college is named after
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Branches/arms of the college
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">What was the name of the college before CPCE
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Highlights of the college, more specifically the ADE aspect
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Newspaper clippings on the college, etc

=<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__Meeting: April 2nd 2012__ =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">//__Absentees__// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Aruna Deonanan <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Natasha Hodge

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">This meeting was called to order by the leader Maxine Rowe at approximately 10:32am. She welcomed and thanked persons for being present. In this meeting three persons were added to the group, as indicated by Ms Wilburg the community project lecturer. These persons were once again welcomed by the group leader and asked to formally introduce themselves. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">The new comers were then given an update, as to how the group is organised. They were made aware of the plans for each group and the progress the group is making as a whole. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ms Maxine then made mention of the quotes she shared at a previous meeting about team work, and went on to share three on respect. She expressed sentiments and emphasised the importance of teamwork and respect. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Printed pictures of the two cubicles selected by the group were passed around for viewing as promised by Ms Wilburg in a previous meeting. Group members were then asked by the leader to inquire about contractors in order to receive an estimate. Akram Ally, Marshella Griffith and Reva Mentor volunteered to do so. Reva made a suggestion that the contractor be visited by a few members of the group. Ms Maxine closed the meeting by offering a few words of motivation and encouragement as well as telling members that they are are responsible for the marketing of the food sale events.

=<span style="color: #ff7000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">__Meeting: April 4th 2012__ =

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">//__Absentees__// <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allecion Peters <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Charlene Newton <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Latoya Quintyne <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Anicie Campbell <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Aruna Deonanan <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Marshella Griffith <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tonya Jones <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reena Kumar <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Akram Ally <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Dollet Williams <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Delicia Adonis <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Lloyd Thomas <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Nieshellann Lall <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Marva Langevine

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Meeting started at 10:20am. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ms. Verbena welcomed the group to the class. She then told the group that the estimate for the cubicles must be in by next Wednesday. In response members expressed that the estimate for the target could not be finalized since it depended on the estimate. Ms. Verbena then said to the group that a letter must be written to Ms. Monfort asking for permission to implement the project. She also added that by Thursday the letter for the bank should be written and stamped in order for it to be taken to the bank. The letter must also be grammatically accurate. Money must be paid to the city council for selling in front the bank. Ms. Verbena said that tables can be taken from the Bain Grey to be used on the sale days. She agreed that there should be a hot dog sale should be done along with the food sales. Ms.Verbena told the group that receipts and bills must be included in theproject report.