March Meeting Agenda - March 1st, 2016

6:50 - 7:00 Pick up pizzas and beverages

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7:00 - 7:20 Settle in, pizzas and mingle (Shirts available for sale)

7:20 - 7:25 Introductions and Agenda Overview (5 min)

7:25 - 7:40  Chapter Announcements (10 min)

• Open Positions

• Volunteer Coordinator
• Beach Cleanup Coordinator (non EC position)
• Chair
• Vice Chair
• RAP / HOTYB Intern (application based, non EC)

• Financial update

• Issue update (general SF/Bay Area issues. trash can example)

• Chapter personnel update (if any)

• Surfrider Conference

7:40 - 8:10  Campaign Needs and Upcoming Events (30 min)

• RAP
• HOTYB
• Beach Cleanups
• Beach Trash Committee / Take 3 (NPS trash committee?)
• MOP
• Sloat
• Education

8:10 - 8: 25 Guest Speaker (15 min pres, 5 min Q and A)

We are also very excited to welcome Rebecca Prince-Ruiz as a guest speaker at our upcoming March chapter meeting. Rebecca is co-founder of the Plastic Free July challenge in Australia and is travelling the world as a Churchill Fellow to talk about plastic pollution and solutions. She is very much looking forward to learning about some of our local challenges and bringing back information to share with her community in Australia.

8:25 - 8:30 Public Announcements
8:30 - 8:45 Breakout