[Coagdu] Fw: [NFB_Colorado_guide_dog_users] meeting minutes from 3-9-14

Fri Apr 4 22:39:50 UTC 2014

Have a blessed day.
Best Wishes
Melissa R. Green and Pj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marty Rahn" <marty.rahn at juno.com>
To: <nfb_colorado_guide_dog_users at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 3:53 PM
Subject: [NFB_Colorado_guide_dog_users] meeting minutes from 3-9-14

Hi All,

Here are the minutes from la/ months meeting.

3-9-14

The meeting was called to order at 1:10 PM. People present were Melissa, 
Marty, Shon, and Beth. The minutes  were approved as posted to the listserv. 
Melissa sent out a draft agenda for our May seminar. The consensus was that 
the agenda was fine. We will ask for any corrections for the agenda to be 
sent to the list once people have a chance to review it so that we can 
discuss them. We discussed getting our flyer up on Newsline and advertising 
through AINC. We will send out the flyer to rehab counselors and pumpy 
raising clubs throughout the state. We will  print out a few  physical 
copies to have at the CCB to give out to people. Shon has put in a call to 
the Littleton Cafe and Luis's Diner and is still waiting to hear  back from 
them. The food committee has not met yet. We discussed contacting either 
Cudoba or Chipotle since they cater as other possible options with Noodles 
being a last resort once we have a firm number of participants. On the 
donation front, Melissa has received the Tax ID number for our division. 
Beth has gone to Dog Savie and the owner said that he would be willing to 
donate things for our seminar. She will also go to Lewis and Bark and some 
other places to ask about donations. Shon has received materials from 
Freedom, Seeing Eye, Guide Dog Foundation, and Leader. We still need to hear 
from GDB though Beth says that she has literature that she can print out. We 
also don't have anything from Guiding Eyes Guide dogs of the Desert, Pilon 
dogs, Southeastern Guide Dogs or Fidelco. Shon said that the Seeing Eye is 
sending about 50 pieces of literature and so he will need some help putting 
packets together. Beth said that she  could help with this project. Brad may 
be able to help also according to Beth. They ara also sending a tote bag, a 
wind chiime and a plush golden retriever stuffed animal. We decided to rafle 
off the stuffed animal. We then moved to another brief discussion of the 
agenda for the seminar. Beth said that we needed to finalize who would be 
presenting for each presentation. People are saying that they are  unsure 
about who they need to contact. Melissa will compile a list of people and 
who they are supposed to contact and send out this info to the list. 
Regarding fundraising, the Denver Chapter has given our division $125 which 
we very much appreciate. Melissa is gning in on Thursday, 3/13 to talk with 
Wellsfargo about our account and setting it up so that we do not keep 
getting charged fees. Beth suggested looking into an online bank called 
Simple. Beth will conduct some research  into this prospect in case 
Wellsfargo will not work with us. Melissa has sent  all  of the required 
documents to Amaoon in order to get our division on  to Amazon Smile. She 
said that we should be up there soon. Shon talked about putting together a 
snack pack for dogs and humans to sell at our state convention. Beth will 
look up dogie sreat recipes and Shon said that he may be able to make some 
dried meat snacks. He said that we will also have a basket of Avon to rafle 
off at our May seminar. We briefly talked about purchasing some pollo shirts 
at some point also to sell in order to obtain funds. We discussed sesting up 
a small fundraiser in ordou to raise money to help defray unexpected costs 
from the seminar. It was suggested that we sell candy such as skittles, or 
even to have a barbecue and sell hot dogs or brauts perhaps at the Wallmart 
in Englewood. Beth, Melissa and Shon will be on the committee to set up the 
barbecue. We briefly returned to discussing the Seeing Eye and their 
potentially presenting at our 'state convention. Shon said that the woman he 
had spoken with had asked him the following questions that he put to those 
of us on the call. How many people are we expecting at the convention? Do we 
expect guide dog users or people looking to get dogs? What are the dates of 
the convention and when would be the time during which we would want to 
present the seminar? Will we have other guide dog schools there and travel 
instructors there to do travel presentations? Will a representative of a 
school be granted any time to do a presentation? We will collect the 
information on this and Shon will relay it back in the  next couple of 
months. Shon also asked  about putting together a newsletter for our group 
called the Waterdish. Beth and Jenny said that they would help with 
proofreading articles. We decided that we wanted the first edition to go out 
in August after our first seminar and before state convention. We decided to 
try to have two issues a year. Some ideas of topics we may include in this 
newsletter are upcoming events, misccceptions abguide dogs, a q and a 
section and birthdays or anniversaries for dogs and their handlers. We also 
briefly discussed developing a brochure for our division. Shon will ask 
Julie about ideas for getting them printed. The members of the food 
committee will coordinate amongst themselves to set up a meeting to discuss 
food options for ouof May seminar. The next meeting was scheduled for Sunday 
APRIL 6 at 1:00 PM. The meeting was adjourned at 2:20 PM.

Respectfully submitted,
Marty rahn Secretary,
Colorado Association of Guide Dog Users
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