[Home-on-the-Range] Board Meeting

[Alison Roets]

Good evening,
Below you will find the December board meeting minutes approved at the
January meeting.
We will meet again on Feb. 9 at 3 p.m CST. Join by calling 916-235-1420 and
use code 879925#.
Have a great weekend!

12/08/24 Board Meeting Minutes


Attendance: Roets, Hemphill, Tabor, Schlenker, Roberds, Fuller, Wood, Nava,
Page, Morgan, williams-murphy


Called to order at 3:09 p.m


Secretary’s report: Approved by Page


Treasurer’s report:

total for October- $220,159.61

Total as of Friday- $209,400.

Approved by Page

We talked about ways to cut costs at convention next year.


Affiliate ADA training session occurred last month, Page will send out the
policy to the board.


Tabor made a motion to allocate up to 7,000 for people to attend Washington
seminar , motion was seconded and passed.


We need to rally people to write testimonies at our chapter meetings to
help support the Newsline bill. We might need people to go to Topeka.


We were asked to participate in the lobby day with KSSB and we were asked
to provide content. Page said we should present the bright bill. It
includes o&m support and tactile graphics now.


Emily mentioned a TVI told her some of her students need the NFB because
they have one on one paras doing everything for them. Page said we’ll get
more brochures and to get contact info to the TVI.


Dianne said we should keep up with the youth programs.

Donna suggested doing a separate seminar from convention to make sure
there’s enough people to help


Page said he’ll invite Pam to see if she can come to the next meeting to
give up some feedback


Next meeting topics:  we need a chapter report, Michael will ask Johnson
county to come on next meeting.

We will review the affirmation of the ADA policy


President Page would like each board member to give a report on what
projects they are working on, at  the board meetings in 2025.



Dianne Hemphill asked do we pay yearly for insurance and zoom.  Insurance
and zoom will be paid for in 2025.  They have already been paid for 2024.
In addition the license for quick book will be coming up to be paid in 2025.



President Page stated that we may need to think about appointing an ADA
coordinator.



Tom Page requested that the board members write a brief job description of
the positions they hold.



Emily Schlenker announced that Rowin will be leaving for the CCB in January
2025.



Laridda Williams-Murphy will be graduating from the Accessibilty Training
program in December 2024 or January 2025.



Newsletter articles were requested.  Article submission deadline is
February 15, 2025.



Tom Page announced that Patty Chang will be holding a seminar on contracts
with hotels.  Tom, Rob and Donna will attend.



Next board meeting will be January 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM.



Meeting adjourned at 4:49 PM.

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Alison Roets
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