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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=marty.rahn@juno.com href="mailto:marty.rahn@juno.com">Marty Rahn</A>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=NFB_Colorado_guide_dog_users@yahoogroups.com
href="mailto:NFB_Colorado_guide_dog_users@yahoogroups.com">NFB_Colorado_guide_dog_users@yahoogroups.com</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, March 08, 2014 8:33 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [NFB_Colorado_guide_dog_users] meeting minutes from
2/9/14</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Please find the minutes from our last meeting
below. Thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2-9-14<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The meeting
was called to order at 1:08 PM. People present were Marty, Melissa, Beth, Becky
and Daniel. Shon is participating in a race today and will not be on the call.
Andre Vanhall, Mike Hinkson and Penn Street were all present as guests. The
seminar is all set for May 31 at CCB. We have the center for the day. We first
began by discussing the food arrangements. The committee was waiting on a date
and will get together now that a date has been set. Becky said that she
contacted Guiding Eyes and hasn't heard anything back from them about sending
literature and other materials from their school to give out at our seminar.
Melissa has contacted Pilot, Leader Dogs and The Guide Dog Foundation. GDF will
send out a rep for our state convention. Leader and Pilot said that they would
both send literature. We need to contact businnesses to see if they will donate
door prizes. Mike Hinkson asked if anyone had contacted GDB. Beth said that she
had contacted them but had not heard anything back yet. Andre said that he was
the Alumni association president for GDB and that he could help reach out to
puppy raising clubs and also alumni from GDB that are in the area. Penn
suggested that we have someone who can speak about the law and guide dogs come
to do a presentation at our seminar. Mike suggested that we create an agenda. We
talked about opening our access rights and law session to taxi drivers, RTD
drivers and others to help educate them on the law. Regarding the law and our
guides, Mike explained that there are requirements that state that public
transit agencies<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>must have someone
for you to speak with upon your<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>request if you are having issues with someone at that company requesting
your ID which is not something they can legally request of you. He also said
that there was an airport service number for people with disabilities that one
can call to get help in resolving issues. We decided to put the topics of
transportation and also of the law into our agenda. Andre will see if he can get
someone from RTD to come and speak with us. Beth said that she would try to get
contacts from the taxi industry to come to our seminar. Regarding format, we
decided that we should have a pannel for the transportation piece with up to 20
minutes for each person to present and then allow those people to go out into
the hall to talk further with individuals. It was also suggested that we get
someone from HUD to come and talk to us about laws pertaining to guide dog users
in the housing sector. We would also like to have a tosic on getting a dog so
that those considering getting a dog can ask questions. Beth suggested breaking
the seminar up into sessions for those who are dog users and those who aren't.
She stuggested splitting the seminar into parts, with the first half dedicated
to those looking into getting a dog and the second half dedicated to topics that
would<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>interest the more
exserienced dog user. It was suggested that a vetrinarian come to talk about
basic dog care also. Beth and Becky will help find a vet for this purpose. We
then moved to discussing how long each<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>topic should take. We discussed having a general session in the morning,
followed by lunch and then breakout sessions in the afternoon. Our general
session would be about the laws, transportation, housing, etc. This would begin
at 10:00 AM and last until noon. At lunch, we talked about having discussion
groups at each table with at least one to two current guide dog users at each
table to answer questions from those who are looking into getting a dog. We also
discussed getting door prizes and creating some time in the agenda for people to
explore venders and exhibits. Penn said that she would be willing to contact
businnesses for door prizes. She also said that she would be willing to put
together the flyer for the event. The format of our seminar is shaping up so
that we will have a pannel discussing access rights, transportation, etc in the
monrning, a working lunch where we divide people up into groups to discuss dog
use, and then have breakout sessions in the afternoon dealing with vetrinary
care and other aspects of having a dog. We decided that we needed to have people
RSVP in order to get an accurate count for lunch. We also decided to charge $5
for lunch, and also to have a table for people to register for door prizes and
join our division if they so choose. Melissa will send out the tax letter
statthe that we are a nonprofit that is needed to request donations from
businnesses out to people. We will look at having a wrap up at the end complete
with a big door prize to keep people interested. Melissa then said that she was
looking at setting us up on a site called Amazon Smile. This is a site where
when people shop and pick us as their charity of choice, then we would get five
percent of each purchase. We further decided that we would focus solely on
making our seminar good and then concentrate on fundraising. Our next meeting
will be on March 2nd at 1:00 PM. We had a brief discussion about how people deal
with dogs in their neighborhoods that are off leash. The meeting was adjourned
at 2:35 PM.</SPAN></P>
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Submitted,</SPAN></P>
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Secretary</SPAN></P>
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