Central Coast Girl Scouts 2017-18 Board

GSCCC Announces Board Members During Annual Meeting in Aptos

VENTURA — Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast (GSCCC) announced the installment of its new Board of Directors, representing communities throughout the council. The new Board of Directors was installed during GSCCC’s 2017 Annual Meeting in Aptos at the Seascape Beach Resort on Saturday, April 22.

Appointed to the Board during the meeting were: Hayley Civian of Aptos; Dwayne Carey of Woodland Hills; Genevieve Evans-Taylor of Camarillo; Mark Lisa of Templeton; Danielle McCaffery of Santa Barbara and Ryan Van Ommerren of Thousand Oaks. The Board also appointed Sue Roth of Santa Cruz to serve on the Executive Committee as the inaugural Vice Chair of the newly formed Membership Connection Committee.

Hayley Civian: a fulltime mother and homemaker, a lifetime Girl Scout and a Gold Award Recipient. She earned her Bachelors of Arts Degree at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and specializing in communication.

Ms. Civian has worked with Girl Scouts since 2008 where she was the Volunteer Support Coordinator for San Diego Imperial Council to 2013 when she was Manager of Programs and Volunteer Services in Castroville.

Sue Roth: Area 1 trustee on the Board of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education; Trustee since 2006 on the Board of the Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast; Director Camp Artemis and Artemis Leadership Training Program.

“This year, GSCCC created a new bylaw-required committee, the Membership Connection Committee, that allows direct flow of information to and from the Board and CEO directly to our membership,” said Jody Skenderian, Interim CEO of Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast. “We believe this Committee will help us create a new level of communication that helps unite us as one entity for the benefit of all of our Council’s Girl Scouts.”

Board Chair Tammie Helmuth of Ventura; Vice Chair Lupita Renteria-Galvan of Salinas; Secretary Crystal Evans of Simi Valley and Treasurer Ashley Ogden of Paso Robles continue in their Board Member roles during this coming term.

Second-term Board Members-at-Large include: Kalpana Iyer of Thousand Oaks; Keisha Frost of Capitola; Susan Murata of Thousand Oaks and Jamie Ruffing of Santa Barbara.

Girl Scouts of California’s Central Coast serves over 10,400 girls across six counties and is committed to making the Girl Scout Leadership Experience available to girls in ways that impact their lives both in the moment and into the future.

Girls participate in troops, individual projects, council events, day camps and more. A variety of leadership, outdoor skills, and Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math (STEAM) based programs and events provide girls with opportunities to learn and explore in fun and informative ways.

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To join or volunteer in Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara or Ventura County, visit: www.girlscoutsccc.org.