Here's the update to CenCal's PDS 2008 info:
    www.centralcal.org  under PDS 2008  or    http://web.mac.com/cencalwebmaster/CenCal/PDS_2008.html

Pictures of the hotel, and pertinent links & info are on there!
I know Wendy and her PDS committee are going out of their way to make this upcoming PDS a success and a conference to remember, so my suggestion is we talk amongst our offices to get on this and make it happen!  If you know you are attending for sure send an email my way or hers & I will put you and your colleagues attending on the list, that way we see more & more people added daily on the site.

We are working on the CVENT thing, but for now the website will do.  It has all the links to workshop proposals, hotel registration, and Carries (treasurer’s) info to get registered which is whats really important now.  Let’s not delay on this.

BEN REYNOSO (communications chair)
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On 8/19/08 10:46 AM, "Wendy White" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>