I understand.  I'm in a graduate program as well, so all the time I'm spending bugging the membership could be spent elsewhere, so I need to know everyone's committment.  Thanks for your response.  

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." 

-Conrad Hilton 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luis A. Gonzalez" <[log in to unmask]> 
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:04 pm 
Subject: Re: Urgent PDS 
To: [log in to unmask] 

> Unfortunately, I will not be attending. I am starting my EdD 
> program this fall and have classes during the week that I cannot 
> miss. 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------- 
> Luis A. Gonzalez 
> Director, Upward Bound Program 
> phone: 805-756-2301 
> fax: 805-756-5122 
> "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than [their] 
> share of the blame and a little less than [their] share of the 
> credit." John C. Maxwell 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: CENTRALCAL [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
> Behalf Of Wendy White 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:46 AM 
> To: [log in to unmask] 
> Subject: Urgent PDS 
> Importance: High 
> 
> Greetings Cencal Family, 
> 
> I"m sending you this email as a friendly reminder for our annual 
> PDS scheduled for October. I just received an email from out 
> events coordinator at the Doubletree in Rohnert Park that so far 
> the only reservation made has been for myself and the deadline is 
> fast approaching for people to receive the $145.00 rate (Midnight 
> Sept. 7th). 
> 
> Myself and a few other committee members have been working hard to 
> provide our chapter with a quality, and worthwhile PDS, however, 
> our hotel reservations are evidence of our committment to attend 
> the event. 
> I have firm committments from Judge Cerena Wong and Efren 
> Carrillo, who is a ETS alumni from Sonoma State and currently 
> running for a 
> political seat in Sonoma County to be our Welcome/Plenary 
> speakers. As 
> of date, I still have not received any interest emails for 
> speakers to conduct various workshops. 
> 
> I realize that schools, community colleges, universities have just 
> started back up and that everyone is running around with their 
> heads cut off, but we need to decide as a chapter if this event is 
> going to go off as planned. I have confered with the hotel events 
> coordinator and have instructed her to reduce our block to 39 
> rooms based on participation from last year. I had forecast for a 
> room block of 60 which may have been a little ambitios, but 
> remember that CenCal has a tradition of breaking records and 
> setting the bar high!!!! 
> 
> I am also on the threshold of starting back full-time into my 
> primary position as a counselor for ETS next week and I want to 
> ask upfront for everyone's "yeah or nay" in pursuing this venture 
> any further. Time and money are at stake and I need 
> programs/individuals to state their committments at this time. 
> 
> Please know that I realize budgets are tight for everyone, so if 
> we need to pull the plug on this one, then the majority should 
> speak. Remember, we voted to have PDS this year in October 
> instead of December, so we may need to revisit this issue again. 
> 
> Thanking you all in advance for your consideration, support, and 
> constructive comments. 
> 
> 
> 
> "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people 
> keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit." 
> 
> -Conrad Hilton 
>