First off, the Public Relations Team would like to take a few
minutes to introduce themselves to all of you:
Public Relations Chairman: Mitula Patel – Cell #818-292-2876 Email – mrpiwla@sbcglobal.net
Public Relations Liaison: Gina
Thomas Patterson, CISR - ginatpatterson@aol.com
Communications Liaison: Wendy
Pike, CPCU, CPIW - wendy_pike@yahoo.com
Education Liaison: Kathleen Soares, CIC, AAI, AIS, CPIW, DAE - mollykat50@earthlink.net
Safety Liaison:
Pamela Heard, CISR, CPIW – pheard@hoffmanbrown.com
Legislation Liaison:
Rebecca B. Aherne, Esq - raherne@khklaw.com
The entire team has been given some pretty hefty goals for the coming year, and you will be hearing from them often
with ideas in each of their areas for ways to get more exposure for your Association,
Educational & Professional Development Opportunities, Networking
within our organization, and Community Action challenges just to name a few. You will also notice changes to the CA
Council Website coming soon thanks to our Communication Liaison, Wendy Pike.
Please feel free to
contact any of the team members with any questions you have. Have a great idea you'd like to share with us?
Drop us a line anytime.
It is also the time of the year for the CWC application submissions
from the California Associations for the Speak off being held at the Council Meeting on September 24, 2010.
We
would love to have someone from your association and a Member at Large compete in CWC at the Council meeting this year.
Remember, anyone who has ever taken a CWC class at any time may compete. Those who have competed in the past (except
Regional winners, who must wait 3 years) are invited to compete again. We urge you to think of your current members,
and help someone out by twisting their arm a bit! It is a very proud moment for any Association when they are represented
at the Council meeting.
Attached is an application and a copy of the speak-off rules.
The rules include presenting a 3 minute speech topic to those in attendance at our California Council Meeting in September
2010. The topic criteria has remained the same in recent years: Claims, Current P/C issues, Current L/H issues,
or one of the following: Education, Legislation or Networking.