[Viva] After PWN ...

[Tami Starlight]

here here shelly!
thank you
tami

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 11:59 AM, shelly tognazzini <shetognazzini at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>> like to see moving forward!  See attached document.
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