Sunday, November 1, 2020

OTSC Meeting Agenda and Minutes 10-26-2020

Attendance   

Council Members Present: 

Council Members Absent: Sarah Morris, Brendan LaScala, Alyssa Matlosz, Calvin Lee, Elmo Nicolas, Jessica Zhou, Joana A, John Jae, Justin Telles

 

Welcome & Goals

Hi

Action Items

Board Member

ITEM & DETAILS

ACTIONS

GSG (Sam Randolph)

How to appropriate the GSG funds

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PC (Adam Strizich)

-$25 gift card for Sydney Bast for leading the Chan Community Workouts this fall?

-Virtual Shared Plates gift card for the game winners?

-Request for $60 for Hopetober shipping for OTSC gear (this may vary)

-       Table virtual shared plates $ request until next mtg.

-       Voting

-       Passed 

OTSC Tech committee (Adam Strizich)

-       Introduce Adam’s tech committee!

-       Related to assistive tech, service learning, and wellness 

-       Integrating use of technology in our practice 

-       Contact Adam about more information 

-       strizich@usc.edu

-  Vote on whether to add a new committee to the OTSC board

- Pitch is still being formed and then will come again together to vote!

 

Begin offboarding process

-       This is the THIRD TO LAST MEETING of the Exec Board!

-       November 9th @ 12:00PM and November 25th @5:00PM for next meetings 

-       Begin transition of roles (if not already done) and responsibilities to 1st year counterparts

Updates

ITEM

DETAILS

OTSC account balance

-       $13,110.15 (as of October 16)

-       Email and contact Sam for requests and details about gift cards 

-       Calvin H. Lee is setting up a new budget sheet

Update on COVID relief spending?

-       @Sam Randolph, Kayla, and Sarah

-       To be discussed with Dr. Rafeedie (this meeting?)

-       Cannot use the money for the student relief fund 

-       Unable to use it as gift cards and needs to be framed into as an event because they cannot be handed out

-       This is also involved with USC financial support 

-       Disguise COVID relief payments and tie it to an event

-       GSG money goes to events

-       Possible raffle at the end of the school year to distribute the money 

-       Example would be to have raffle at the end of the event 

Events Committee - Trivia Night 

 

-       OTSC x PTE Trivia Night

-       Friday October 30th, 6:30pm

-       OTSC collaborating with PTE

-       Fundraising for The St. Catherine’s Challenge

-       Nation-wide student-led fundraiser; money sent to intervention grants from AOTF; novel ideas and science of occupational therapy 

-       Tell your friends! 

-       Sign up on a team or as an individual through this link

-       https://forms.gle/9ah9qqA7F3q87FwYA

-       4 teams currently signed up 

-       One team is faculty 

Faculty Meeting

-       Next faculty meeting is November 6th! Please send anything you want included in the OTSC update to John J or Alyssa 

Philanthropy Committee

-       Shared Plates was a huge success! Huge thanks to Sarah Morris for leading the event, John J. and Brendan for leading games, and to everyone who participated!

-       16 total participants! 

-       USC Chan HOPEtober Occupational Relay is THIS Saturday (HALLOWEEN) and we’d love to have you join. Goals: Raise awareness regarding pregnancy & infant loss, improve maternal health, fundraise for Return To Zero HOPE, get off Zoom and engage in a meaningful occupation. Thanks to Camille Chapus and Jessie Tien for organizing this event!

-       Time range of 6AM to 6PM

-       Currently have 5 teams signed up 

-       Already raised over $100 through Chan! 

-       Suggested $5 donation 

-       Currently finalizing a raffle system right now 

-       Point system to win OTSC gear! 

-       For more information contact Camille about signing up! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xGAKexMCTDtF8B8RvuigBHEZZnM2uADP_6u8gm64Zs0/edit#gid=0

-       chapus@usc.edu

Advocacy & Government Committee

-       AOTA elections

-       Plan for the organization of this is still under the works! 

-       Possible gift card idea similar to last year where voting enters you into a raffle

-       Still need new ideas to incentivize people to participate 

-       Meeting next week with Kim Kho and Mike McNulty 

-       Please send in ideas of how to vote through Zoom format 

 

Paying Sydney Bast $25 as a thank you for her Chan Community workouts18 responses

Yes

18

No

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$60 for Hopetober Shipping

Yes   18

No   0