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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thank you, Karen, for the minutes of last night’s meeting. I have five corrections to submit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The first is that yesterday’s date was October 20, not the 21<sup>st</sup>, as it was listed once. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The second is that I was listed as Barb in the list of attendees. I prefer to be called Barbara. Mostly, you did do that. Thank you. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The third is the spelling of Kari Ruse’s name. It is Kari Ruse. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The fourth is that the ride sharing company is called Lyft. It’s a take-off on the word lift. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The fifth is that I’m sure you meant transpired rather than conspired, since we’re talking about what happened, not </span>something bad or illegal we secretly plotted or made plans together to do. <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>This isn’t a correction, but I think that if we check our constitution and see how many members it takes to have a quorum for doing business, we can then discuss finding a way to approve minutes so they can be on our website more often than annually so people can know what we’re doing and potentially join with us in building the Federation and making things happen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Barbara <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Nebraska-senior-blind [mailto:nebraska-senior-blind-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Karen Lemmon via Nebraska-senior-blind<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:32 AM<br><b>To:</b> Nebraska Senior Blind Info and Discussion List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Nebraska-senior-blind] October meeting<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>NFBN-Senior Division <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>OCTOBER 20,2014 Meeting Minutes<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>The National Federation of the Blind of Nebraska Senior Division held their October meeting on Monday the 21<sup>st</sup> 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). <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>Motion was made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. Meeting adjourned at 8:40 P.M. (CT).<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>Respectfully submitted<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>Karen Lemmon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>Secretary <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%'>NFBN-Senior Division<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>