[Nebraska-senior-blind] October meeting

[Karen Lemmon]

NFBN-Senior Division 

OCTOBER 20,2014 Meeting Minutes

The National Federation of the Blind of Nebraska Senior Division held their
October meeting on Monday the 21st of October, 2014 via telephone
conferenceing. Robert Newman, President, Barb Loos, Vice President, Karen
Lemmon, Secretary and member Brad Loos were in attendance. Prospective
member Gina Finnell also attended. The meeting came to order at 7:30 P.M.
(CT). 

The first order of discussion considered growth of chapters. Robert reported
the Omaha chapter had several new prospective members. Karen reported
difficulty in getting members who paid dues involved in projects. Barbara
suggested that members be given assignments in every project to help give
them ownership within the project. Different projects such as the bakeless
bake sale and the need not attend tea party were discussed. 

Discussion turned to reports on the recent NFBN Convention held in Omaha.
Barbara reported on the transportation committees progress. Bill Bivin and
Carrie Roos were both at convention showing their concern for the lack of
accessible transportation in cities and the lack of available public
transportation connecting counties across the State. At convention Carrie
announced the progress being made to make their website assessable to the
blind. Although progress is slow there is movement forward. On the same
subject Barbara explained another option that has appeared to assist blind
travelers. The program is called LYST. This program allows individuals to
use their I-phone to find rides to various destinations. This originated in
California and the availability of it in the various areas of Nebraska was
unknown at the time of this meeting.

         There was some discussion as to the cost of the convention for
individuals attending. Defense of the cost was that the meal, the speaker,
awards and other considerations must be paid for and that the more in
attendance the less the expense. The other side of this discussion was that
individuals who live on an extremely limited fixed income cannot afford
participating at the high end expense of the more expensive conference
centers.

Gina asked where to send her dues. Secretary Lemmon said she would call her
with Cheryl's address and email Gina's address to Robert. This led to
discussion about how to inform members who do not have email about what
conspired at each meeting and updates on times for the next meeting. There
was no decision   made on this topic. Clarification was made to the new
secretary however that minutes did not have to be sent to Mike Hansen as
there would only be one annual report to the State Affiliate.

Robert turned the discussion to the November meeting agenda. He reported
that the woman from the Alzheimer's group would be on the call next time.

The last item to be discussed was the minutes submitted by Nancy that needed
to be approved before the end of the year. Robert suggested that if we have
time next month with the guest speaker on the telephone meeting, that we
will motion on the two sets of minutes to be approved. If time did not allow
this would be done at the December meeting.

Motion was made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. Meeting adjourned at
8:40 P.M. (CT).

Respectfully submitted

Karen Lemmon

Secretary 

NFBN-Senior Division

 

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