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face=Calibri><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The meeting was called to order at
6:10 p.m.. People present were Becky, Rene, Melissa, Shon, Ellie, and Marty.
Korena was absent. Bianca was excused. Melissa first discussed the retreat that
was held at the CCB for presidents of chapters and divisions last weekend,
January 6<SUP>th</SUP> and 7<SUP>th</SUP>. Fundraising will be a state wide
thing with proceeds being dispersed to all of the divisions instead of soley the
state affiliate. There are also other committees such as communications on which
members can volunteer to serve. Melissa will email the list of chairpersons to
the board. Phil and Suzy Harris are with Complete Financial Spectrum. We are
working with them to set up a financial presentation during which we would get
$20 per person that fills out the questionnaire during the presentation. The
Treasurers report indicates that we currently have $108.91. We still have
charges on the account of $5 for the PAC.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Plan and another $5 to get the paper statements sent to the CCB. We
decided to eliminate the paper statements being sent to the center in order to
save $5, and having someone such as Becky print them out. Melissa asked about us
selling the King Soopers Gift cards and the consensus was that there were
already a lot of chapters and divisions doing this. Rene has looked into Bark
Box and has sent them information about who we are. She is waiting for a call
back from them to discuss fundraising options. Some of the divisions and
activity groups within the affiliate are also attempting to raise money on Go
Fund Me, however we felt that this way of fundraising is meant more for personal
situations rather than raising money for organizations. The date of our next
seminar was then discussed. We decided that the seminar should be held in the
summer when we have summer students and others who are interested in dog guides.
Saturdays in June are the 3<SUP>rd</SUP>, 10<SUP>th</SUP>, 17<SUP>th</SUP>, and
24<SUP>th</SUP>. We tentatively settled on June 24<SUP>th</SUP>. Shon will leave
a message for Julie to see about reserving the center. June 10<SUP>th</SUP> will
be our backup date in case the 24<SUP>th</SUP> doesn’t work.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Regarding a face-to-face meeting of the
COAGDU board, we discussed April. We decided on April 8<SUP>th</SUP> for our
in-person meeting, and Shon will ask Julie about this date also. Board members
are strongly encouraged to research fundraising ideas!! Regarding our
newsletter, The Waterdish, we would like to disseminate this quarterly. We
discussed ideas for content including potential articles about our division,
getting a guide dog, and others. Shon, Melissa <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and Rene will work on the newsletter, and
Ellie will take ownership of making sure that the dog guide schools know about
our division and can let their new graduating teams within the state know about
us as well. Everyone is strongly encouraged to think of one other topic that we
can focus on four our June seminar and bring this to the next conference call.
The next conference call was scheduled for Sunday, February 26<SUP>th</SUP> at
6:00 PM. The meting was adjourned at 6:55 PM.</FONT></FONT></P>
<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000">Have a
Blessed day.<BR>Melissa R. Green And Pj<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>