[Home-on-the-Range] June Board Meeting

[Alison Roets]

Join us on Sunday, June 14 at 3 PM Central for our last board meeting
before the national convention!

Below is the zoom meeting invite and the approved minutes from our April
board meeting.

Thank you,

Alison Roets

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NFB KS Board Meeting 04/26


Attendance: Roets, Page, Wood, Rob Tabor, Hemphill, Stanzel, Fuller, Nava

Guests: Eddy Morlan, Shauna, Anya Fuller


Secretary report: Hemphill said there was a typo in the numbers in the
financial committee report, accepted and approved by Page


Legislative report: Omnibus budget bill came out and was voted on. Sarah
will still have her position funded for Newsline. A rep from Augusta has
heard complaints from the elected vendor committee. Christy Williams was
able to drop a bill to create a task force to make recommendations on BEP.
Page wrote a letter for the testimony. The bill passes the house and was
rolled into the omnibus package under the VR section. We will try to get
someone from national association of blind merchants and someone from NFB
KS appointed. Tabor said Mike Miloy is thinking about starting a chapter
and would be a good person to appoint.

Roberds reported that Derick Schmidt has signed on to some of our bills,
blind Americans return to work and access technology.


Convention update: November 13-15 at the  Holiday inn and suites in
overland park.They just did a big remodel and as of right now we don’t have
to share the convention space with anyone. We will start convention
committee meetings around the end of the month.


Donna said she is missing the newsletter article from Johnson county. It
will be sent out soon.


Treasurer’s report: As of February- $191,164.16. As of Friday- $192,044.23.

The finance committee met with Rob Tabor as chairperson. We sold some apple
and SDY and bought BKDV, an ETF, and fidelity government cash. No assets
changed, funds were just moved around.

Susie Stanzel generously donated 6,000 and it is being added to investments.



Scholarship committee will begin meeting soon. We had 6 national
scholarship applicants we can reach out to and see if they will apply of
yours. Anya said last year’s numbers would work well again. We had one for
1,500 and two for 1,000. Donna Wood moved that we offer one 1,500 dollar
scholarship and two 1000 dollar scholarships this year. Seconded by Tabor.
Motion passed.


National scholarship allocations: Preference goes to leaders, first time
attendees and students. They also must be members. They write a letter to
their chapter president which is then forwarded to state president. Page
suggested making it a committee process if there are too many applications.
Stanzel suggested chapter president should decide who is forwarded to state
president. Page said he will accept emails from chapter presidents
suggesting their top pics for the grant but he will still try to stick to
the main three qualifications. Page says he has received 6 from south
central so far. Wood suggested look at covering some people at a higher
amount and some at a lower amount like our scholarship. Page said he would
like to keep them the same because everyone spends differently. Hemphill
asked what amount we gave last year. Fuller said it was 10 people at 12000
dollars. For couples we used to do 1500 or 1600. Page said we cut it off so
couples weren’t feeling penalized. Fuller said we didn’t use all 10 last
year so put the rest toward the museum. A motion was made by Wood to set a
cost of 14,000 in total for national convention grants with the ability to
ad more later. Seconded by Roberds. Motion passed. Nava moved that we offer
14 $1,000 grants, seconded by Wood. Motion passed.

We have two people applying for KJLS.

We will vote on roll call and museum at the next meeting.


Further discussion for the good of the organization. President Page updated
the board on the progress made on getting our zoom account changed over to
the affiliate. Chapter presidents, division and committee leaders are now
able to schedule meetings under the affiliate zoom account. This account
address is

zoomatnfbks.org

and the password is KSZOOM01!

next step is to get Robert Fuller set up with the e-mail

treasurerñfbks_org

and an e-mail for the affiliate president, which would be

presidentñfbks_org


Treasurer Fuller revised his treasurers report that  Fittswater did cash
the check  issued to her for the Washington seminar. chapter president Nava
will contact Fittswater to ask her  to write a reimbursement check to the
affiliate.


meeting adjourned 4:12 PMNext month’s meeting will be on the 17th due to
mother’s day.
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