[Viva] After PWN ...

[shelly tognazzini]

Hello all vivacious ViVA women!

Thanks Kath! I have made an appointment to see Charisse next week and hope
to better express my views with less emotion. I plan on writing a letter to
the board so that they will perhaps appreciate where some of my personal
frustration with this "last attempt to be heard" meeting stems from. In the
meeting, I came from an emotional place for all the women that couldn't be
at the meeting and who truly do not have a place to go as they choose not
to go to PLBC or Friends for Life. I have frustration with when the time
line of shutting the doors came and, could we have been informed earlier,
and, why didn't that happen? Why, when the decision was already made by the
board to close the doors are we being asked now how to proceed? It seems to
me rather obligatory. The only remaining question is how to spend the
remaining money. And, what is the criteria for spending that money? That
may have all been discussed after I left the meeting, some of you in
attendance may already know this. I will talk to Charisse in person next
week and hopefully will have a better understanding of some of these loose
ends in my mind. I will as well request minutes to review if available.

I personally, will strongly recommend that any and all remaining funding be
directed solely to Women's Programming, with approval to spend and
determine programming the responsibility of the sub committee that will be
formed in the new building at PLBC, with ViVA voice(s) on that committee.
What that programming is or how it rolls out depends on hearing from as
many women as possible and organizing an effective voice to be heard at
PLBC.

There are other questions I have that I believe will be better answered one
on one and I hope to get some of these answers when I meet with Charisse.
Thanks everyone for listening to my views. Hope everyone has a relaxing
weekend! Thank you to all the women in attendance that night and a big hug
out to Val for her great hugging skills!




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*Shelly Tognazzini*
HIV Peer Research, Health and Wellness Coordination
604-440-1579 | shetognazzini at gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:39 PM, Kath Webster <kathwebster at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Please contact Cerisse to let her know what women specific services you'd
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