[Massachusetts-NFB] MAPBC May Meeting Minutes

[Liz Lesperance]

Good Evening,

Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful moms across our affiliate and
throughout the NFB!

Attached and pasted below please find the minutes from the most recent
Parents' Division meeting held last Thursday, May 11th.

Sincerely,
Liz

**************

The May meeting of the MAPBC was held on Thursday, May11th. The meeting was
called to order at 6:04PM. Those in attendance included:

Youme Nguyen Ly

Hai Nguyen Ly

Jen Bose

Liz Lesperance

Justin Salisbury

Justin recited the NFB pledge.

As part of our roll call, we did an icebreaker where we went over 2
emotions we were feeling at present.

Hai put forth a motion to approve the April meeting minutes which Liz
seconded. The minutes were approved.

Liz provided an update on the treasury account. We are storing the
financials in an excel sheet in our shared drive.

We will be holding a coffee fundraiser the first week of June. Hai will
reach out to Stephanie to follow up.

Liz will re-send the meeting minutes out a week prior to each upcoming
meeting to help create the agenda.

Our division is prepared to assist the MCB in the best way possible with
their request for support for greater funding for student devices.

Justin provided an update on the Parents' Rights Bill. The house and senate
bills are companion bills. That is, they contain very similar language.
There has been no action since these bills were introduced. Justin reached
out to the bill creators and wanted to make it known the NFB was interested
in assisting with this legislation. Justin has been in touch with Senator
Lovely's office. Senator Lovely introduced the bill to the Senate. Her
office brought up the idea of holding a joint meeting with Justin's local
representatives. Hai noted that we should be coordinating with the
co-creators of the bill to ensure we are all working in alignment. Justin
proposed talking to elected officials first to obtain the origins of the
bill.

Justin stated we need clarity within our affiliate on who should do what to
push this bill further along. Liz suggested forming a committee
specifically for this bill. The committee would include all members of the
Parents Division along with other members of our affiliate. We would like
to have representation across the entire state.

Justin and Hai agreed that next steps would be to hold a conversation with
Mika and Shara regarding who should drive this effort in our affiliate.
After that, we can start having discussions with local legislators.

We discussed having parents’ division members get together during the
upcoming national convention.

Our next meeting will be held on Thursday, June 8th, at 6:00PM.

The meeting adjourned at 7:00PM.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/massachusetts-nfb_nfbnet.org/attachments/20230514/8cfca92f/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: 2023-5-11 MAPBC Meeting Minutes.docx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Size: 13681 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/massachusetts-nfb_nfbnet.org/attachments/20230514/8cfca92f/attachment.docx>