SAKE Election 2008........
News flash
March 4, Annual Meeting and election: Coming
soon.
The election results are as follow:
President:
Secretary:
Communications Manager:
Public Relations:
PLATFORMS........
Navigation Note: There are currently 4 positions to fill;
Public Relations, Secretary, Communications Manager and President.
The positions below are in bold and candidate names are underlined.
If there is more than one person running for the same position there
are hyperlinks to jump directly to each persons platform statement
for easier navigation.
Public Relations
Gordon Hom
Hello, My name is Gordon Hom. I would like to first thank you for
the opportunity to serve on the Board as your PR Manager. Next,
I would like to thank Elyse for her dedicated service to TSNW and
Club Sake. I have been with Club Sake for about a year, and it has
been a great experience. I have never met such a wonderful and welcoming
group of people as those with Club Sake. There is great camaraderie.
I am currently a real estate attorney with a major supermarket
corporation. There is an expectation that attorneys have the “gift
of gab,” and I can spin a good story. But as we see with the two
Democratic presidential nominees, there can be talk, experience,
or some of both. For PR experience, I was a co-founding member of
Team Global Releaf, an adventure racing team affiliated with American
Forests, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, to promote its reforestation
and conservation efforts. PR and sponsorships were a part of my
responsibilities. In addition to promoting the organization, the
team and this new sport of adventure racing, I establish relationships
with major corporations for equipment/gear, pro-deals, and monetary
contributions.
My goal as PR Manager would be to work with the other Board members
and the teams to continue building the strong relationship in the
Club and with other teams. I would pursue building relationships
with our communities to generate more interest in dragon boating.
I would also seek to build relationships with businesses to be a
team or race sponsor, general donations, and outfit teams through
pro-deals.
Together, we can work on promoting Club Sake and the sport of dragon
boating.
Secretary
Karin Carmignani
My name is Karin Carmignani, and I am running for the Board position
of Secretary.
Although there is not the excitement and intrigue of the Obama/Clinton
race—since I’m running unopposed—I do want to tell you a little
bit about why I decided to run for this office and why I’ll do a
great job in the position.
First off, I absolutely love the sport of dragon boating—the team
camaraderie; the excitement of traveling to different venues to
race; the racing (and sometimes winning of medals); the wonderful
and interesting mix of people in Club Sake; the opportunity to race
with other teams and get to know new people; and the wonderful friendships
that have developed and extend beyond just paddling together...
Because I love the sport so much and all it offers, I am always
talking about it to people I meet (I just recruited someone at an
Excel class I attended), and it’s why I wanted Group Health to have
a dragon boat team: because I want everyone to have the chance to
experience dragon boating and maybe get as much enjoyment and satisfaction
from it as I do.
Club Sake is the foundation that provides the opportunity for people
to try dragon boating, get hooked, and have many years of fun and
new friendships. In addition to being the foundation, Club Sake
is also the thread that ties us all together regardless of which
specific Sake team that we happen to be on. Because I have reaped
the many benefits of being a part of Club Sake, I decided to run
for Secretary as a way to give back to the Club by contributing
my skills and ideas to help it grow and continuously evolve in a
way that meets the needs of its members and we all feel a part of
something wonderful.
Since I support and facilitate several Board and quality committees
as part of my job at Group Health where I am the Quality Program
Manager, I am very good at organizing, coordinating, planning and
facilitating meetings to keep them on track so that desired results
are achieved. I look forward to supporting the Board’s functioning,
but also to contributing my ideas and feedback as a team member
of the Board to help the Club continue to grow and thrive.
I am requesting your support and your vote on March 4. Thank you.
Communications Manager
Dina Stark
Anita Steele
Dina Stark
My name is Dina Stark, and I have been a member of Club Sake for
5 years. Dragon boating has given me the opportunity to make great
friends while doing something I love. I believe our goal as a team
should be to communicate that passion to others and get people as
excited about the sport of Dragon Boating as we are. I see great
opportunity to use our website as a communication tool within the
club as well as a vehicle to recruit people into the club.
While handling communication for Sakeccino for the past 5 years,
I have learned about effective communication and, with the help
of our webmaster Adam, strengthened and made Sakeccino communications
more direct and helpful. www.sakeccino.com
- I propose that we streamline communication to a weekly format
that prompts our members to go to the website for information.
Not only would e-mails be specific to the communication contact
to each team, it would allow anyone to access announcements that
were of interest to him or her.
- I would like to establish a live calendar to track all club
activities, so we have clear timelines and can plan appropriately.
I would like the calendar to functionally enable people to sign
up for events -- whether they are volunteer based or race based.
- I suggest that we publish regular board minutes and updates
so the broader club knows what the board leadership is working
on.
- I would like to establish a sub group with a representative
from each team to get regular feedback and suggestions on how
we can improve communications and operations within the club.
- I also recommend changing the format of the club newsletters
to be blog style, so teams could let the broader club know what
they are doing on a more regular basis. The newsletter could include
personal updates like it does now, but also what teams are doing
to prevent injuries, refine techniques, fundraise, recruit, etc.
I strongly believe that all of our teams add great value to the
club -- each with its own personalities, strengths and weaknesses.
My mission as a board member would be to foster inclusiveness and
leverage each team’s strengths. I hope by modernizing our communication
vehicles we would enable all teams to be more active within the
club and feel more informed and more involved.
Club Sake is very important to me, and I want to build better ways
to communicate and share the passion for dragon boating and for
our club. If you elect me as your Communications Manager, you can
look forward to a more accessible, interactive and streamlined communication
process.
Thank you very much for your vote. I very much look forward to
serving the club.
Anita Steele
My name is Anita Steele, and I am running for the position of Communications
Manager. I have been an active member of Club Sake since summer
of 2005 paddling with Vintage Sake. I was a long time supporter
of Team Sake prior to that. I’ve been the Treasurer/Communications
chair for Vintage Sake since January of 2006. Besides keeping track
of the funds for races, I distribute Club communications to the
Vintage team in a timely manner, register the team for races and
do race day team management. This includes keeping track of races,
making sure everyone knows when and where to report and tracking
other Club Sake teams race times to insure we can support them during
their race.
As a member of the club, I’ve chaired the food committee for one
of the Kent races, helped at the Club Sake booth at the Chinese
New Year’s celebration, the U district street fair and the summertime
International District fair. I was also co-chair of last year’s
International Cancer Cup. In addition, when not racing with Vintage,
I’ve joined other Sake teams to help fill out their boats when they
were short paddlers. I have a real passion for dragon boating and
this Club. I’m ready to pitch in at any time to get things done.
I have a strong history in volunteering. I’ve done everything from
ushering at Husky games to cooking dinner for 100 homeless teenagers
and everything else in between. One of my past roles was to serve
as Membership Chair for the Washington Financial Aid Association
for 3 years. I am the current Database Manager for the U of W Alumnae
board where we have raised over $1 million dollars for full tuition
scholarships.
As Communications Manager, I’d like to continue the Club Newsletter
to promote club unity. I would also like to start a Club racing
calendar so we know which teams are participating in which races
and available paddlers to help fill teams when needed. I am very
excited about serving the club in this capacity and will do everything
in my power to see it succeed.
President
Matthew Goossen
- Organize a paddle from Leschi through the Ballard Locks to a
local destination such as Blake Island or Golden Gardens Park
and back. A party could be held at the destination with family
members/friends invited. This could be a lot of fun and great
publicity for the club.
- Have more involvement with other local clubs with races and
practices by going to their practice place and paddling. The Sunday
Paddle group just went to Lake Union and practiced and raced with
TDBA Lake Union and had a wonderful time dodging float planes
and seeing the new Lake Union park.
- Work with Bill Traub, equipment manager, to develop a system
to quickly tie up the boats with carabineers. Also label all club
paddles with height and look into purchasing more paddles for
the club of different height so that more people can use them
and determine the right paddle length for themselves.
- Check with Mount Baker Rowing Club for winter storage of dragon
boats
- Encourage more mini-races among the club teams.
- Work with the communications manager to have a more dynamic
Club Sake website so that results or news can be reflected instantaneously,
more like a blog such as westseattleblog.com.
- Keep the Sunday practices going and use them as outreach for
new paddlers.
- Develop more open practices for paddlers who can't make their
regular paddler or just want to paddle more often. See if a summer
Wednesday paddle would work or a winter Wednesday night paddle.
- Seek input from members to continue to make Club Sake an enjoyable
place to paddle and meet other people.
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