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Project: Cinema Chisasibi

Our team hopes to bring a fully functioning Movie Theater to Chisasibi. We anticipate showing current release films at the same time as other cinemas across North America. In this project, other than two adults (one manager and one assistant manager), all workers will be employed from our high school students between Secondary 3 and 5 groups.

The operating company will be charted as non-profit, governed by a Board of Directors. First priority will be repayment of the initial loan in less than three years. After that, usage of all profits will be determined by students. Their request will need to pass the Board of Directors.

We believe that when a student graduates while working three years at the cinema, s/he will graduate as a businessman with increased business and socialization skills.

Students will have fun entertaining Chisasibi residents and visitors, and learn about business and its principles, such as being on time, caring out responsibilities, etc, while being in high school.

In the following pages, you will see how we plan to do this. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach me with any contact method above.

The Objective…

• Bring Chisasibi the latest released movies
• Let students be involved and help run the business
• Create three high school graduates every year with businessmen skills implemented in them
• Entertain Chisasibians and visitors from Radison, Wemindji, and other communities
• Show live events for free, such as hokey play offs
• Create jobs for youths
• Pay back to the community

Student involvement

• 2016: The Company will hire 25 of Secondary 3 students.
• 2017: Out of those 25 students, 15 of them will leave the job.
• 2017: 10 students will be kept, and will be at Secondary 4.
• 2017: New 15 Secondary 3 students will be hired.
• 2017: The total number of working students will be
  15 (Sec 3) + 10 (Sec 4) = 25 students.
• 2018: From this year and on, every year;
• Secondary 3: New 15 students will be hired every year,
• Secondary 4: 7 of 15 students from previous year will be kept every year,
• Secondary 5: 3 of 7 students from previous year will be kept every year,
• The total number of working students will be
  15 (Sec 3) + 7 (Sec 4) + 3 (Sec 5) = 25 students.

Job description grade-by-grade

• Secondary 3 students: Usher
  Clean theater, assist guests finding their seats, check IDs for R rated movies, rip tickets, clean washrooms, welcome customers with smiles, concession preps
• Secondary 4 students: All Secondary 3 jobs
  + concession sales
  + box office sales
• Secondary 5 students: All Secondary 3 & 4 jobs
  + management

About 3 of Secondary 5 students

• Students will race to be one of those 15 new Secondary 3 students that are hired to work at the cinema every year.
• A year after, those 15 students will race again to keep their work. 8 of them will be gone. Only 7 of them will continue and change work title and receive a pay rise
• Two years after, those 7 students will race again to keep their work. 4 of them will be gone. Only 3 of them will continue and change work title and receive a pay r
• Three years after, those 3 students will graduate from our high school as businessmen. They will have 3 years of experience working at a movie theater doing all type of works, starting as an usher and ending as a manager.
• This project, every year, will prepare 3 of Secondary 5 graduates for our community, Chisasibi, as businessmen, who know how to run a business from bottom to top.
• We believe every business in Chisasibi will race to have one of those 3 new graduates in their team.

Structure of the company

• Non-profit organization
• Company with social responsibilities
• Governed by Board of Directors, plus a non-voting experienced advisor.

Two adults

• A general manager: a full time position working approximately 40 hours in a week
• And an assistant manager: a part time position working approximately 25 hours in a week

Board of Directors (BOD)

• There will be 7 members
• One member from James Bay Eeyou School teachers
• One member from Chisasibi council members
• Three members from local business owners or managers
• Two members from public contact or service

An advisor/consultant

• One advisor/consultant to guide from beginning to a point where the service is
  no longer needed.
• Scheduled to be here in Chisasibi July/August for 4 weeks

Estimated start up cost

With reasonable rates, we propose to be loaned $300,000,
which will be paid back in less than three years.

Income and expenses

(Film advances & concession stock quickly recovered.)

How the profit will be used?

• This is the best part of this initiative
• The company anticipates being able to pay back the loan in the first three years.
• After that, the company anticipates it will make $100,000 or more profit every year.
• We want students to decide how to spend the profits. For example, they can build a basketball field in front of the school or sponsor our local American Football team or anything else.
• All of their decisions must be approved by the Board of Directors. For example, BOD can approve building a basketball field, but can reject for purchasing iPads for themselves.

Location of cinema

• Mitchup building auditorium was build to be used as cinema.
• It needs theatre style seats
• Can be used for meetings, conferences, stage concerts, live theater performances, as well.

Schedule of work

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