[MD-Sligo] May Chapter Minutes

[Yasmin Reyazuddin]

Hi Terry,
The two corrections I will suggest are as follows.
The Global accessibility awareness day event was on May 18,
The book festival was at Boher park.
Thanks
Yasmin

On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 4:34 PM Terri Nettles via MD-Sligo <
md-sligo at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Please let me know of any additions or corrections.
>
> National Federation of the Blind
>
> Sligo Creek  Chapter Minutes
>
> May 13, 2023
>
>   This meeting is being held via Zoom.
>
> The meeting was called to order by President Debbie Brown at 11:03 AM.
> with 26 in attendance.
>
> There were introductions.
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> Judy then read the April minutes, a motion was made to accept the minutes
> with corrections and the motion carried.
>
> Ben Danforth presented the treasurer's report with a balance of $1,398.38
> a motion was made to accept the report and seconded and the motion carried.
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> Dan then played the Presidential Report.
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> Bake sale: Debbie stated that if we could find Giant Grocery stores that
> would allow us to have our bake sale, we would need bakers.
>
> There were quite a few people who volunteered to be bakers.
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> Debbie talked about the different divisions in NFB for the benefit of
> newer members and as a refesher for seasoned members. Debbie thank everyone
> who went to Annapolis and participated. She talked about the two bills we
> have been working on: the Accessible Prescription Labels Bill and the
> Retired Guide Dog in housing bill. Comments were made by some members
> regarding accessible prescription labels such as CVS Caremark, Envision
> America and James Pharmacy.
>
> Carla Gilbright has been nominated as EEOC. We discussed Global Accessible
> Awareness Day regarding Section 508 and on June 15th is career mentoring
> Day. These two events will be held on Zoom.
>
>
>
> National Convention: There are some slots available for those who are in
> pre-employment status beginning their career.
>
> Then there was discussion whether to hold meetings alternating each month
> between in-person and on Zoom  which is currently what we are doing or
> strictly  in-person. A vote was then taken and the result was to keep it as
> is. Debbie went over some details regarding the scholarship dinner for
> tonight.  Volunteers are needed to help at the auction tables, selling
> raffle tickets and someone to help escort folks from their transportation
> to their table.
>
> She also said that some of the scholarship winners will be attending.
> Debbie mentioned that Ben's and Queen's families and friends raised a
> little over $4,000 for the scholarships.
>
> The Gaithersburg Book Festival at Aurora Park will be held Saturday May
> 27. DEBBIE is looking for volunteers to help out.
>
> Jeff Baer talked about the book club he is starting. The first meeting
> will be May 27th at 4:00 PM via Conference call. The book that will be
> discussed is I Eliza Hamilton. Jeff will send out the BARD number and the
> conference call information. He also gave out his contact information as
> well.
>
> Michell Lindsay will be receiving the Pauline Johnson Award at our June
> meeting.
>
> The meeting was adjourned at 12:53 PM.
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> Respectfully Submitted,
>
> Terri Nettles, Secretary
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