[Nfb-greeley] meeting minutes for 111/23/13

Fri Dec 6 14:44:15 UTC 2013

You didn't put Linda's name in the people who were "present". (You spelled 
present wrong).
Diane
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marty Rahn" <marty.rahn at juno.com>
To: <nfb-greeley at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 5:47 PM
Subject: [Nfb-greeley] meeting minutes for 111/23/13


> hi all,
>
> please find the previous meeting minutes below. thanks.
>
> 11/23/13
>
> The meeting was called to order at 12:20 PM. People preient were Marty, 
> Melissa, Cody, Jessica, Bill, Nure and Rita. Joe, Jannis, Angel and 
> Christi also joined us as guests. We next discussed the minutes as emailed 
> to the Greeley list and a motion was made and seconded to pass the 
> minutes which were accepted by unanimous vote. According to the 
> Treasurer's report, we currently have $421.72 in our account. This is 
> counting the check that we wrote for $50 to NFBCO. This leaves us with a 
> balance $371.72. Cody introduced Mike Hess from the Blind Institute of 
> Technology and then conferenced him in via phone. He  discussed what he 
> did through BIT. He stated that he helps people who are bl/VI to get into 
> the work world more easily through training and work with companies. Mike 
> Hess's contact information is as follows:
>
> phone: 303-995-6453. email: mike%blindinstituteoftechnology_org.
>
> After Mike's presentation, we turned to discussion of our holiday party. 
> This meeting will be held at the Greeley Senior Center, locatow  at 1010 
> 6th Street, on December 14,, 2013 from 12:00-2:00 PM. People are urged to 
> contribute $5 toward the cost of the main dish. We will be collecting 
> donations for North Range Behavioral Health and the families with which 
> they work. We will be collecting children's books, movies and gift cards 
> for these families. We will also be collecting nonperishable food items 
> that will benefit the Weld County Food Bank. Linda will take the donations 
> for North Range Behavioral Health families with her to be picked up by the 
> woman with whzm Melissa is working. Chapter memberbbs will bring drinks 
> and other things to the meeting on the 14th. Members are encouraged to 
> send out messages to the list stating what they will bring and Cody will 
> coordinate this effort. He will send out a reminder message in about a 
> week's time. Fundraising was next on the agenda. We first  talked about 
> the braille candybar  fundraiser. We made aproximately  $90 from the sale 
> of these at our state convention. It was decided that we would give the 
> money to the treasurer and then take the money out of the account when we 
> needed to buy susplies to make more bars to sell. We discussed shipping 
> them to people who wanted them. Jessica thinks that shisping them would be 
> possible. We could have people pay shipping in addition to the price of 
> the candybars. She also suggested finding out how many people wanted them 
> and then transporting them down to Denver with someone which will be less 
> expensive. The consensus of the chapter was that we should exercise this 
> option. Melissa offered to contact the center to see who all might want 
> candy. Cody suggested that we figure out one large scale fundraiser while 
> continuing to do the smaller fundraisers in order to pad our bank account 
> a little more. Some ideas of fundraisers we discussed were a bake sale and 
> a silent auction with a dinner or some other event to draw people in. Nure 
> brought up the idea of having a fundraiser on the UNC campus selling 
> burritos or something like this to people on campus who have a difficult 
> time getting away for lunch. Jessica suggested we take preoders for 
> Valentine's Day and then make cupckes, cookies, chocolates, etc. as a 
> fundraiser. Cody suggested approaching the Lions Club and asking them to 
> help with a pancake breakfast and possibly combining the silent auction 
> with this. It was felt that the regional president would be a bit more 
> hepful than our local chapter and that we should communicate with him 
> directly about this idea. We formed a fundraising committee consisting of 
> Cody, Linda and Nure. We then discussed our priorities for next year. The 
> first thing is to set our meetings on a uniform date every month. This 
> will help attract members and grow the chapter. We discussed having 
> meetings on the third Saturday of the month in order to avoid some of the 
> major holidays and to help people know when our meetings will be. Jessica 
> suggested that we find a place to meet that we can always have since there 
> has been some issue with getting the room at the senior center. There was 
> consensus about keeping the meeting here at the senior center if we can 
> since we do not have to pay for the space we are using. We will set up a 
> 2014 calendar and Linda will check with Sherry Lobemeyer to see if this is 
> something that we can do. Jessica will work with Linda to determine 
> meeting dates. Nure suggested doing another perspectives expo similar to 
> what we did this past year, but having it at a time when we are more 
> likely to get students from UNC  involved. Melissa said that Aims wants us 
> to work with them sometime in March to put together something for their 
> Disability Awareness Week and also in October for White Cane Safaty Day. 
> Jessic suggested getting together a committee soon to set up dates and 
> begin planning for these activities. We also talked about looking into 
> working and communicating more closely with the area TVIS. We discussed 
> having monthly or bimonthly sessions focusing on training for various 
> tzpes of technology such as I-devices, JAWS and braille notetakers among 
> others. We also thought about having 30-60 minute sessions at the end of 
> monthly meetings to focus on a certain piece of technology. Kristi was 
> then given some time to ask the chapter as a group some questions about 
> common misccceptions and obstacles that we face as blind people as well as 
> about key pieces of legislation that might help us as a group in the 
> future. The meeting was adjourned at 2:20 PM.
>
> respectfully submitted
> marty rahn secretary
> national federation of colorado greeley chapter
>
> Warm Regards,
> Marty Rahn, Ma
> Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments
> Weld Re-8, Weld Re-3J and Morgan Re-3
> Home: (970) 353-5067
> Cell: (719) 271-9496
> Email: marty.rahn at juno.com
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