[Capchapohio] April minutes

Mon May 25 15:09:52 UTC 2015

Salutations, I hope this message finds everyone doing well. I wanted to know the most efficient and effective way to offer to the chapter meetings. It is very likely that Sunday's meetings I will not be able to attend, but definitely want to contribute as much as possible. Madam President, are you okay with those thoughts, suggestions, and future plans be listed here on the chapter listserv? Additionally, is it possible to request copies of meeting minutes sooner than the day of a meeting? Also, is it possible to have a meeting reminder set up through the list? I didn't even realize there was a meeting until The evening before. I'd like to post those thoughts and ideas, and just want to know what the chapter does regarding that. Thanks in advance for your response. 

Jordy D. Stringer, president, performing arts division, national Federation of the blind 
Sent from my iPhone

> On May 24, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Shelbi Hindel via Capchapohio <capchapohio at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Pasted below are the minutes from the April 2015 meeting. These are the minutes that we will be dealing with today at the meeting.
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> Shelbi
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> April 26, 2015
> Minutes Capital Chapter
> National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
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>                 Shelbi Hindel, president, called the meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. In attendance –
> Shelbi Hindel, Angela Clark, Stephanie Claytor, Eric Duffy, MariLyn Piepho and guest Jordy Stringer.
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>                 Jordy introduced himself to the group. He graduated high school in 2002. Is the president of the national division of performing arts. Has served on the board of directors in the Indiana affiliate. He is interested in working on growing the chapter. Has applied to work with the BELL program. Jordy is originally from Columbus and is a vendor.
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>                 Stephanie gave the treasury report. The balance for the March meeting was $736.48. She has paid all of our obligations to the state affiliate. The balance for April is $461.33. Dues are $10 for the year.
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>                 Eric moved that the October and November minutes be approved as circulated by email. Angie seconded the motion and it passed.
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> Angie moved the March minutes be approved as sent out by email. Eric seconded the motion. It passed.
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>                 Shelbi reported that the gift cards to be given for door prizes at the National convention are $10 Bath and Body Works, $10 Denny’s Restaurant because there is one near the hotel, and $15 iTunes. In addition a $15 iTunes gift card was purchased and donated to the students division for their fundraiser on behalf of the chapter.
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>                 The dates for BELL are June 22 through July 2. It will be at OSSB. The times are 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Children will be bringing their own lunches and adults will be on their own for lunch.  We will not be getting books donated from Seedlings this year. 
>                 A sympathy card was sent on behalf of the chapter to the family of Cynthia Johnson.
>                 At the April meeting of the board of directors the charter for the Ohio Parents of Blind Children was lifted. The division has been inactive for quite some time. The division will be reorganized at a later time. The board recognizes the importance of this division.
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>                 The Drive for 75 is winding down. On April 29 J.W. Smith will be performing at Arnold’s Bar and Grill in Cincinnati under his persona of Dr. Feel Good. He will also do a gospel performance at the end of May in Cincinnati.
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>                 Stephanie was supposed to do the Monitor article report but forgot so volunteered to give the report at the May meeting.
>                 NFB Scrip Ohio orders are due Sunday, May 3, 7:00 p.m. Our chapter has three new folks signed up. Lets work to get two more so that state convention registration fees will be waived for our entire chapter.
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>                 If we can grow our chapter membership we will look at other meeting days, times, locations. We have tried multiple options and currently the Sunday schedule works best. We have to work with people’s schedules as well as when the church is available. They do not charge us to meet in their building. That is a significant consideration for our chapter.  
>                 Jordy did the presentation on a national division this month. He reported on the Performing arts. This group includes a wide variety of talents such as singing, instrument playing, public speaking, dancing, and behind the scenes gifts like recording and sound equipment operation. Some states do have divisions, example – California. J.W. will be playing keyboard at the national convention opening ceremonies. He will be joined by others but details are not yet in place. The Performing Arts division does have a scholarship program but it is currently suspended because of being reworked according to our national standards and should be available for the 2016 convention. Dues are $5 per year to be a member. They have a mentoring program. A listserv is available for those who are interested and it can be found on the NFB.org website.
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>                 Eric reported that there is a new app for the iPhone, NFB Connect. You can read the Monitor, Presidential Releases, press releases, and more. He encouraged people to download it and familiarize themselves with it. It will be improving as time goes. 
>                 We listened to the Presidential Release.
>                 We received $6 from the sale of pony tail scrunchies that Shelbi made. These were sold at the church’s store, Donna B.’s. It was agreed to send the money to the Drive for 75 campaign fund.
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>                 The meeting adjourned at 4:21 p.m.
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> Respectfully submitted,
> Shelbi Hindel
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