<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi everyone,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks so much for joining the meeting yesterday - it was really nice to see so many new faces! I have posted below the minutes from our meeting. Feel free to email me with any comments or questions. I would also like to schedule our October meeting as soon as possible, so I will be sending out a doodle poll with possible meeting times in the coming days. We talked about alternating the meeting location between Eastgate and Westgate, so the next one will hopefully be a Westgate. </div><div><br></div><div>Finally, please remind your MIT friends and neighbors who have children to register for the new Back-up childcare program as soon as possible. It is a great benefit; 10 days of care for only $5 per hour! Please register before you have a need for babysitting, so you will be all set for the unexpected times when you actually will need the service.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally (for real this time!), if you know someone who wants to get involved, please send me an email and I will add them on the mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Anna</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Meeting Minutes</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Tuesday Sep 17, 2013</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- Introductions: Brittney, Nora, Emily, Sarah, Tiky, Anna and Marzyeh were present.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- Marzyeh talked about the Family Subcommittee’s role within the GSC as being a subcommittee under the Housing and Community Affairs Committee.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- Anna talked about the Family Subcommittee’s past projects, especially the recommendation to EBOC with regards to enrollment and tuition policies at the new TCC Koch childcare center, and the recently launched Back-up Child Care Program for students, as well as the ODGE and GSC funded project to research the potential for creating a need-based childcare or a family grant for students with children.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- We talked about ideas for advocacy and activities for the academic year 2013-2014</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. We would like to broaden our scope beyond childcare as it seems that our most important goals, back-up childcare, family daycare network and a need-based grant, have already been reached (back-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>up childcare program) or have received positive reactions from the administration (family childcare network and need-based grant).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. Changing the on-campus family housing policy to take into account better the families’ needs for stability in terms of schools and childcare arrangement</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>3. Creating one location for all family related information which will be easy to access. Currently information is very much dispersed among different offices.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>4. Increasing spousal access to on-campus facilities. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>5. Giving MIT affiliated families access to Eastgate playground and creating an after hours access to the playground at Stata (card access).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>6. Providing childcare through MIT babysitters at the Z-center during certain days and hours of the week (e.g. 2 times per week at 8am-noon).</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>7. Creating fun, regular activities for MIT children, e.g. Simmons Hall play hours once a month, activities through the Lifelong Kindergarten group at Media Lab.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- We will discuss these ideas more in the next meeting and choose the ones we would like to focus on first.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- Next meeting will be in October (date TBD) and meeting place will alternate between Eastgate and Westgate throughout the year.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">- We talked about creating a poster advertising the subcommittee. This is a great time to recruit new members.</div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div></div></body></html>