[IABS-Talk] Chicago Chapter Draft of April 2021 Minutes

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Chicago Chapter Meeting

April 10, 2021

 

The meeting was held via Zoom.

President David Meyer called the meeting to order at 12:02 pm.  There were
38 participants.

Beginning Activity: Dave asked all in attendance how they would want  to be
contacted for the meeting, by phone, by text, by email or through Ill-Talk.
Denise Avant made notes on how people wanted to be contacted.

Program Item:  Second Vice President, Jemal Powell, introduced Jim
Ferneborg,  a longtime advocate for people with disabilities and a longtime
professional in the transportation field. 

Jim works for Metra, the commuter rail system in the Chicagoland area. He
has been at Metra for 19 years.  Metra is part of a renovation project at
Chicago Union Station. Amtrak is putting in an entirely new audio and visual
system in that station. For blind folks, it’s better than it was before. We
have installed 72 huge monitors that are going to go all over the station
and on all of the platforms on both the north and south concourse at Chicago
Union Station. It will be completely audio, so that you’ll be able to hear
everything. There will be a better synthetic voice. Metra is putting in an
entirely new train tracking/train announcement system because ours is dying.
It will be much better with regard to announcements on the trains,
announcements in the stations, announcements outside your suburban stations
when you’re standing there waiting for a train, announcements at the
downtown terminals. Our highest priority are people who are blind and people
who are deaf. All of that information is going to be much more accessible
than it ever was. We’ve been working on new stations. We have a couple of
new stations going up in the system. We have a station at 79th and Lowe on
the Rock Island District. We’re putting in a new station at Peterson and
Ridge on the Union Pacific North Line because that line has gotten so heavy
that we need another station there. We have audio at all of our downtown
terminals There are 2 pieces of information you need when you walk into a
downtown terminal. What track is my train leaving from and where is my
track?  The information is all audio. The Halstom Company in New York are
going to be building new diesel rail cars for us. People with disabilities
aren’t going to have to fight with people who have bikes anymore on trains
because we have a special area for bikes. There’s going to be plenty of
audio information on those trains. They will be more or less level
boarding-type trains, so we’re not going to use wheelchair lifts on those
trains like we do on our gallery cars. There is a single step up and we’ll
be working with the company to fabricate some type of retractable ramp for
people with wheelchairs. 

Debbie Stein asked where the funding is coming from. Jim said that they got
a large federal package for all of this to run our operations and for
capital expenditures, 

Bill Schmidt asked if Metra offers timetables in Braille or other accessible
formats. Jim said we do not. He says that we will produce them on demand. If
a person called or emailed him and requested a timetable in Braille, Jim
would get that produced for that person. Jim says that we get all that
through Horizons for the Blind. If you want to take a trip, the best thing
to do is to go on the website or go on the Metra mobile app on your phone
and get those times or you can call Metra at 312-322-6777. You can talk to
one of our friendly passenger assistance people and they will give you all
the times. If it's off hours and those people aren’t on, you can always call
836-7000 from any area code. That’s RTA Travel Information and you can get
your information there. 

Jim produces a Braille station’s guide. It has a ton of way finding
information and it goes through every single line with way finding
information and lists stations from the downtown terminals to the suburban
terminal point, telling you whether they’re accessible or not. It’s like an
8 1/2 x 11 booklet. You can also go to our website and there’s an ADA
webpage there and you can get all that stuff in text as well.  

Dave asked if the new track announcement system will be a little more
isolated or perhaps a little easier. Jim mentioned that one of the people
that he met with asked does the announcement have to repeat every 5 seconds.
Jim said that we do like it to repeat because that’s good way finding
information, but it will be less repetitive. There will be more space
between announcements. The track enunciators are telling you what track they
are and then when you go to the departures monitors, they are telling you by
train what track it’s on. 

Jemal asked if live human voices are still going to be announcing on Metra
trains. Jim said that they are committed to keeping the human beings
announcing those trains because you can always go up to those people and ask
a question. There is a real way finding to the audio systems of the downtown
terminals. If you shut down all that down tomorrow and ask Jim to get
through Union Station. Not being able to see, he would have a difficult time
doing it. If somebody says that we got a problem on the Southwest Service at
track 18, the audio systems helps Jim find that. It’s also a way finding
tool when you get off the train. It’d s great way finding tool for blind
people to make their way around these large downtown terminals. 

Mary Grunwald asked when she might see some of these changes at Union
Station and what may be planned for Ogilvie. Jim said that the procedure at
Union Station is a massive overhaul and that will take several years. The
whole interior construction of Union Station is going to change. With the
Ogilvie Transportation Center, we are not sure because that space is owned
by the Union Pacific. So when it comes to our hands, then we’ll start
looking at doing things at Ogilvie. But you’ll see gradual improvements at
Union Station over the next several years. Treasurer, Steve Hastalis, heard
about plans to expand service again on the North Milwaukee District and
North Central Service, which are interrelated because the North Central
trains come out of Union Station on the Milwaukee district. Steve asked Jim
what he knows about these proposals to expand service. Jim did not hear a
great deal about it. There are people who want to push that North Central
Service north of Antioch. There is talk of going past Big Timber Road in
Elgin. There has also been talk of pushing the Burlington Northern Santa Fe
out past Aurora into Oswego and Montgomery. 

Gina Falvo asked if   the station in Homewood is going to be redone. Jim
said that there were some improvement at that station that they were looking
at. He also said that it’s going to take a minimum of 40 months before we
see new cars roll out on the Metra tracks. 

If you wish to contact Jim, his direct number is 312-322-6766 and his email
address is jferneborg at metrarr.com <mailto:jferneborg at metrarr.com> .

Approval of Secretary’s Minutes for March 2021:  Approved.

Treasurer’s Report:  The treasurer’ report was given by Steve Hastalis.
First quarter, January, February, March: 

Beginning balance January 1, 2021: $2,655. Income: Dues $5 a piece, 8
memberships, subtotal $40. Additional donations $120. Monthly collections
January, February, March 0, virtual meetings due to COVID, subtotal $5. Cane
tips 5 at $2 apiece, subtotal $10. Total $170. 

Expenses: Preauthorized Contribution (PAC) $50 monthly electronic
withdrawals transactions NFB debit monthly contributions to national office
January, February, March subtotal $150, total $150. 

Ending balance Wednesday, March 31, 2021: $2,675. The treasurer’s report was
approved.

NFBI Chicago Chapter Board Elections 2021-2022: President Denise Avant,
First Vice President Patti Chang, Second Vice President Jemal Powell,
Secretary Kira O’Bradovich, Treasurer Steve Hastalis,  Board Members: David
Meyer, Marilyn Green, Dustin Cather, Ken Borst.

What’s Happening:  

Dave mentioned that Nadia Sherman got COVID again. She’s in Minnesota. She
has been in and out and in Intensive Care. She was able to summon her own
medical health when it got to be too much. They did want to put her on a
ventilator. She refused that because she wanted to be able to communicate
with her mother. She is currently on a BIPAP machine. Please keep Nadia in
your thoughts and prayers. 

Mary said that she got her second vaccination. At the end of her 2 week
waiting period, she will be able to go back to work and that’s a big deal. 

Greggory Rosenberg said that he has been working on a project with Bookshare
for about a month to bring the Bookshare library to the Amazon Echo family
of products. He will be continuing that project for the second phase.
They’re expecting to bring the product to market some time in the fall. For
those who have access to Bookshare that will be an additional way you can
listen to books. 

He also took a fall and managed to break a few of his fingers. Greggory says
his mother is doing great with the new drug she is on for her Stage IV
ovarian cancer. 

Ken Borst reported that Joan Porter is in the hospital. She has been
diagnosed with liver cancer. 

Dan Tevelde says that he was chosen to test an app called Web Audio. It’s a
news app where you can access recordings of news stories. It has a lot of
neat features. 

Eileen says that she has been going with Ken Schad for 44 years and that she
will be seeing him for the first time after 13 months.

Local Legislative Committee: Kira says that we have expanded. Beyond our
focus on making sure that scooters and other forms of alternative transit
that the City of Chicago may provide. We’ve been looking at public transit,
not just Ventra but also the paratransit and the TAP programs and looking at
future transit such as self-driving vehicles. The committee decided that it
would  be a good idea to set up a meeting with the commissioner for the
Mayor’s Office for People With Disabilities, Commissioner Arfa. We will be
discussing all 3 things with her. Debbie Stein, Denise Avant and Steve
Hastalis will be present at that meeting. 

One of the things that we are trying to get feedback on from everyone in the
chapter is how accessible Ventra is utilizing public transit, paying for
public transit and paying for any type of transit that the City of Chicago
is in charge of. The 2 main parts are paratransit and Ventra and alongside
paratransit is TAP. In the past, there has been issues with paratransit and
TAP, specifically right now with TAP, in doing things like loading money on
your card using the phone, using an accessible app or using an accessible
website or being able to go into a store. 

We want to make sure that in the future that both the TAP and the
paratransit system align directly with a way that we can load money with
Ventra cards, which is all 3 of those ways. There is a phone number, there
is a website and app and there is a way to load the cards at a store. 

You’re welcome to email Kira about any issues. There is a whole survey, but
there’s one primary question we’re trying to get at. We’re wondering if you
have had any difficulties loading your TAP card, your Ventra paratransit
card or your Ventra Card. 

Debbie Pittman says that at the current time the Ventra card in regards to
paratransit cannot be loaded. That is not an option. It only serves as an ID
for the paratransit rider and the tap card can only be loaded either online
or by going by the currency exchange. 

Marilyn asked Debbie if the ÅDÅ paratransit card is only an ID and what does
she mean. Debbie says that card, at the present time, cannot be used to pay
fares. Its only purpose right now is as an ID. So it is a Ventra card with
loading capabilities for fixed routes, but you can’t load it for paying for
paratransit. Marilyn said that she does it each and every time she uses
paratransit. You have to register the card. If you call Pace, you can get
the process in registering. She just gives paratransit the number from her
ADA card and then it will activate it and she goes to the Ventra website to
load the card. She does not show the card to the paratransit driver. She
tells them that she has paid with her Ventra card and they call back to
dispatch to verify. So when she books the trip with paratransit, she tells
them she wants to pay with her Ventra card and the money comes off the card.
Debbie Pittman says that she got a call from a rider that couldn’t load her
card and was stranded and couldn’t get home and Debbie had to help her by
going online for her and helping her to load her card. Denise said that she
called to book a paratransit ride and the recording tells you that you can
now pay for paratransit rides using your Ventra card. It is available where
you can use the money on your Ventra card to pay for your paratransit ride.
You just have to tell the person who’s taking your order at the time to put
it down. If a thought comes to you,, please email Kira at kobradov at gmail.com
<mailto:kobradov at gmail.com> .

State Presidential Report: The national convention is coming up in July.
Registration is now open. Registration opened on 3/1. If you want to
register for the national convention and do not have an email address,
please let Marilyn know. She will get someone to register you or we will
come up with a plan because it overrides the system if she registers you
with her own email address.  So if you know people who want to register for
the national convention, please take their information and let Marilyn know
and she can give you the procedure. 

The national convention is from 7/6 through 7/10. It is virtual, anywhere
and everywhere. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them. 

Our next state board meeting is going to be on 4/18 at 7:00 pm. It will be
at the same Zoom information that we use for the Chicago Chapter meeting.
Marilyn will send out the Zoom link. All are welcome to attend the same
state board meeting.

Bell Program: BELL is our summer enrichment program for students who read
Braille. There will be 3 sessions of BELL. 6/7 to 6/18, 718 to 7/30 and 8/9
to 8/20.

BELL coordinators have met twice with Karen Anderson, who is the national
coordinator and she is supposed to be sending out in the next few days the
list of participants who have registered  from Illinois. Debbie Stein said
that she will have a better idea of where we’re going in terms of our need
for mentors. She had a list of people who expressed interest. She is
probably going to be talking to people individually to get a sense of
schedules and their interests and we have to get background checks on
everybody who’s involved. So if you would like to serve as a BELL mentor,
get in touch with Debbie. The job of the mentor is to contact the
participant you’re assigned to get in touch with them each day and check in
with them, see how they’re doing on the projects that they’re working on
with BELL, help out with anything that they might be having some difficulty
with, be a liaison for the parents if the parents have questions. It depends
on the students as to how much or how little contact they want. It’s a great
way for us to get more connected with these families and a great way for
individuals who would like to get to know some of our blind children too be
able too do so. If you want to get in touch with Debbie, her number is
773-203-1394 and her email is dkent5817 at att.net <mailto:dkent5817 at att.net> .


Sarah Luna asked when registration closes for BELL. Debbie says registration
is going to be staggered throughout the summer.  For each session the
registration for that session will close 4 weeks before the session. This
summer for the first time each session will be structured around the
students’ needs. So there will be a beginning, intermediate and advanced
group within each BELL session.

Federal Legislation and State Voting Legislation: We now have 71 cosponsors
for HR 431 Access Technology Affordability Act. Nine of those 71 cosponsors
are from Illinois. We are still missing key people, so we need people to do
some calling and emailing. If anybody who lives or knows someone in Bill
Foster’s district. Congressman LaHood has not signed on yet. Both Foster and
LaHood have signed on in the past. We do need further help with Mary Miller.
She is the new congresswoman from the 15th district. We haven’t been able to
get a meeting with her yet. 

We need help with just the Chicago area. Marie Newman replaced Congressman
Lipinski. She has yet to sign on, so anybody living in her district , please
email or write to her and ask her to cosponsor HR 431. We also need help
with Representative Mike Quigley. He has yet to sign onto HR 431, though he
has signed onto this legislation in prior years. For people living in Danny
Davis’ district, he has yet to sign onto HR 431. 

In the case of Quigley and Davis, the more of us who call and write and ask
for  them to cosponsor HR 431, maybe it can light a fire under them and they
will do it. We also need our 2 senators to sign on the legislation. Senator
Duckworth has cosponsored in the past, so we do need her to sign onto S 212.

The last person that we need to work on is Sherry  Bustos. Those of you who
might have friends around the Blackhawk area please remind them to make
contact with her. The Access Technology Affordability Act is the bill that
will give a refundable tax credit of up to $2,000 for blind and low vision
people to purchase access technology which should help people in their job
search, in the educational arena as well as in everyday community living.
We’ve seen how important it is to have technology available during this past
year. We need Congress to be moving on this and to pass this bill. We think
we can get it done in this legislative session and get it done this year. 

Jemal said that we have a couple of At Large members who live in
representative Miller's district.  He was asked to get in touch with Dustin
to provide the names of those members so e could reach out to them.

In regards to the voting legislation as it pertains to the State of
Illinois. The Illinois legislation is in session. Last year they passed a
bill out of the legislature that did not provide for any sort of way for us
to vote by mail in an accessible manner that we can vote privately and
independently. So we have been determined to prevent that from happening. If
they are going to pass any kind of vote by mail legislation this year, we
want to make sure that it has the ability to have an electronic delivery
system and an electronic return system, whereby you can use your computer,
fill out your ballot and return it electronically. So far we have a bill in
place. It is HB 2951. It’s Representative Ammons’ bill. In the senate, it is
S1907 Julie Morrison’s bill. But we have been told recently that these 2
bills are likely to be part of a larger package. 

We have been working with Equip for Equality and the Illinois Council of the
Blind to provide information to our legislators regarding the need for
making sure we have an accessible way to exercise our constitutional right
to vote 

We are still hopeful that we can get something done by 5/31 when the
legislature is done.

State Board Meeting and State Convention: Our Face-to-Face board meeting is
not until August, either the 3rd or 4th week in August. Our state convention
is the weekend of 10/22. You should be getting more information within the
next couple of months about those 2 items. 

Please send information about what you would like to see at our state
convention. Our web administrator will be putting information up on our
website and up on Ill Talk. 

In December our state board voted to have a COVID relief grant. We
understand that blind people throughout the state of Illinois are
experiencing financial hardship due to COVID-19. It’s not to return people
to where they were financially, but it is to offer some assistance. Please
be on the lookout on Ill Talk, IABS Talk and on our website for information
about that program.

READ-A-THON:

Please participate in the read-a-thon and also please get your friends to
participate in the read-a-thon. 

We are in need of funds right now because we would like to keep the spirit
of donating to the national convention funds as we have in the past. Right
now we have enough for a local chapter, but we’re not going to be able to do
the sorts of contributions that we have done in past years. So any of you
who are ready to read or see fit to contribute towards the efforts, please
do so. 

Remember that there is. a $10 admission fee, however, if you raise $10 or
more from the community at large. your admission fee is waived. There has
been a flyer that has been drafted. There may be some formatting, but, once
that flyer is ready, it will be send out. Please copy it, paste it on your
social media pages and do what you can to have your friends contribute
towards the effort. You can do a certain amount of money per page or you can
do a flat rate contribution. Any type of reading is acceptable be it Braille
reading, print reading or audio reading. The date is 5/1. The time is 1:00
pm to 4:00 pm and it will be a Zoom activity.

Jemal asked about the audible pedestrian signal project. He stated that when
the audible signal project came up, the chapter was in favor of the audible
signal project but was not engaging in litigation. He asked if the DOJ was
siding with the ICB. 

Patti said that the Justice Department was siding with the ICB. 

Greg said that he had some dialog on a CDC call. We’re seeing 2 things that
are concerning. One thing is that COVID 19 is causing damage to optic nerves
for people that have low vision and this could even effect people that are
blind but have light perception. Secondly there are some new concerns that
if somebody who had cataracts in the past that the COVID disease accelerates
the growth of secondary cataracts.

Presidential Release #504, April 5, 2021: It is the one year anniversary of
the live presidential release. We hosted a vaccine clinic for COVID 19.
President Riccobono encourages us to get the vaccine and he encourages our
chapters and affiliates to help work out opportunities for that to happen.
You should share your experiences about accessing COVID 19 vaccines and
testing on our website. We are gathering information through a survey that
you can find. It will take you 15 minutes to fill out the survey, but we
need you to share your experiences. 

Very soon we will be distributing information to our affiliate presidents
about another partnership with Lyft to help break down the transportation
barriers to getting the vaccine. If people are going to seek vaccines, Lyft
will be partnering with NFB to provide ride credits for people to go to
vaccine testing sites. 

We have a partnership with Crews to support a member of ours, Dan Parker in
his quest to break the Guinness world record for fastest car driven
blindfolded. The Guinness world record is not a blind record, It’s a record
for somebody driving blindfolded and the record is held by a blind person
and Dan is going to seek to break it. Dan is a  blind person who graduated
from the Louisiana Center for the Blind .

Legislative update:  Access Technology Affordability Act (HR 431) has 71
cosponsors in the House of Representatives and S 212 has 15 cosponsors in
the United States Senate. We need to keep calling and emailing members of
Congress to get support for the ATAA. 

We recently commented on some questions on some frequently asked questions
that were released by the Department of Education about competitive
integrated employment. The Rehabilitation Services Administered released a
number of questions and sought feedback on them and so we posted a letter to
our website that we have sent to RSA in response to those comments. You can
find that letter as well as other policy statements we’ve made on the policy
section of nfb.org <http://nfb.org> .

For the People Act  (HR 1 or S1) of 2021 passed the House of Representatives
and the Senate is now considering the nearly identical companion bill which
was introduced in the Senate S1. This bill has a couple of key areas that
are of concern to NFB. In fact, we oppose them because they diminish voting
accessibility for blind people. On 4/1, we sent our concerns in a letter to
Senator Klobuchar of Minnesota. She is chair of the committee on rules and
administration in the Senate and Senator Merkley who is the bill’s sponsor
and we asked that they consider amending the bill to protect the voting
rights of blind citizens and especially to protect the accessibility
provisions that are already built into the Help America Vote Act  and the
victories that we have won in the courts using the Americans with
Disabilities Act. You can find that letter on the policy statement section
of our website. We need our members to leverage this letter for writing to
members of the United States Senate to pay attention to these concerns and
to urge the relevant committee to amend the bill. We wrote this letter to
Senator Klobuchar and Senator Merkley, but we  sent it around to every
senator, so they have received it. We need our members to raise the concern,
call it to their attention, let them know they received the letter, let them
know that you back NFB in these concerns and that you want strong voting for
blind people to continue going forward.  We would also encourage you to set
up meetings with your senators’ offices to talk to them about the letter and
urge them to get their colleagues in the Senate to support amendments as
they’re called for in the letter. If you set up meetings with your senators.
Invite Jeff Kaloc from our team to those meetings. He can help support your
advocacy work. You can reach Jeff via email at  jkeloc at nfb.org
<mailto:jkeloc at nfb.org> . We will be having some legislative alerts.

Survivor-led Task Force: President Riccobono appreciates the work that our
survivor-led task force is doing to mobilize members of the Federation
around a number of conversations to make our organization the most safest
and supportive it can be. 

About 10 days ago, we started training with RAINN for all of our affiliate
national leaders. That training started 3/23 and we’ve already trained 250
of our members and that will be happening throughout the month of April. One
of the other things that we are taking a deep dive into is looking at our
Code of Conduct along with working with RAINN and figuring out how we can
strengthen it  especially to support survivors and make sure that we address
incidents within the organization most appropriately. 

Our task force will be having 2 open calls this month to review the
frequently asked questions around our Code of Conduct and to receive
feedback from members about the code and processes and things that the
members of the Federation would like to have in our Code of Conduct
processes going forward. Those are going to happen on 4/15 and  on 4/18 from
7 pm to 9 pm central time. 

You can go to nfb.org/survivors <http://nfb.org/survivors>  to get more
information about those calls and you can go to nfb.org/codeofconduct
<http://nfb.org/codeofconduct>  to find our code as well as our frequently
asked questions. You will hear more about  initiatives that are coming up as
we get to the national convention.

NFB has established a new Muslim group. The NFB Muslim group was officially
established during the week of March 8, 2021. The purpose is to provide
advocacy and education related to challenges and opportunities unique to
blind Muslims, to change negative perceptions about Islam, to increase
information in an accessible format to blind Muslims such as Braille Kurans
and informational texts and to serve as mentors and to support one another.
We’ve also established a listserve and everyone is welcome to subscribe. The
list serve is nfb-muslims at nfb.org <mailto:nfb-muslims at nfb.org> . Contact
Pasnim at passim.shuli at gmail.com <mailto:passim.shuli at gmail.com> .

NFB National Convention 2021: The Maryland affiliate will be serving as the
host of the 2021convention. Anywhere and everywhere from July 6 to 10. We
have a lot of things planned including  tours, entertainment and much more.
We will be sharing information about these activities in the coming weeks.
Door prizes:  We are looking for cash donations. If you can send cash
donations to us from the divisions, affiliates, chapters, committees,,
groups, or individually, as much as you want in door prizes. We’re ready to
receive those prize donations right now to the National Center. You can
write a check to NFB or to the National Federation of the Blind. Include the
words  door prize in the memo section, so we know that’s what it’s for. Mail
the check, door prize gift cards, ETC. to 200 East Wells Street, Baltimore,
MD  21230, attention fiscal services/dp (door prize) and that way it will
get there. Then please send an email also to let them know that something is
coming. Send email to prize at nfb.org <mailto:prize at nfb.org> . Be sure to list
how much is being sent or what’s being sent and the correct name of the
organization, so we can recognize that on our acknowledgement webpage. 

We did post a PDF of our convention registration form for those that cannot
access the online registration or wish to have a printable version or if you
would like to print copies to deliver to people in your chapter or if you
have people who don’t have email addresses. You can fill out the fillable
PDF for them and you can email  it to us. You can check that out at our
convention page. We will have resolutions at our convention. If you register
and are a member and you register by 5/31, you can vote at the convention.
You can also write resolutions. These are major policy statements of the
organization. Sharon Manecki of Maryland is our resolutions chairperson and
she’s been working with a committee of folks from our Board of Directors to
shape our process of resolutions especially in the virtual environment. 

There are a few changes about our resolution process this year. Our goal is
to post draft resolutions. These are resolutions that the committee will
consider in advance of the committee meeting, so that all members can read
them and the committee can read them in advance. They should be posted to
our website. To accommodate this, we are asking that resolutions be to the
chairperson 30 days before the resolutions committee meeting, so this would
be 6/7/21 that resolutions will be due to Sharon. If you find that you
missed the June 7 deadline, you can still have an opportunity to get a
resolution submitted to the committee if you have the affirmative support of
3 members of he resolutions committee and you’ll have to note that when you
submit your resolution chair if it is after June 7. You can submit your
resolutions by emailing resolutions at nfb.org <mailto:resolutions at nfb.org> .
You can ask questions there of Sharon Manecki as well and you can also reach
her via telephone at 410-715-9596. You can find all of  our past resolutions
on our website.

Old Business:  No old business.

New Business: Our next Chicago Chapter meeting is 5/8. On 6/12 at 11:30, we
will need to have a Chicago Chapter board meeting and we will have to
discuss, among other things, what, if any, contributions we’re going to be
able to make to our national funds and following that at 1:00 we will have
our regularly scheduled chapter meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 3:12 pm.

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted: 

Eileen F. Truschke, Outgoing Secretary, NFB Chicago Chapter.

 

 

 

Denise Avant, ESQ

1st Vice President

National Federation of the Blind of Illinois

For more information about NFBI,

Go to www.nfbofillinois.org