[Nfb-greeley] Nfbg minutes

[melissa R green]

marty is having some technical problems.
So here are the minutes attached and pasted in the message.

7/20/13



The meeting was called to order at 12:30 PM. Members present were Melissa, 
Cody, Jessica, Linda, Diane, Bill, Rita, Nure and Dora. The minutes from the 
last meeting were approved with the amendment of the change in amount from 
$140 to $29 that we made during the Cafe Mexicalli fundraiser. Our treasury 
currently has $393.38 after all withdrawals. Cody read an email from Joe 
Stultz stating that he could no longer be active in our chapter. We then 
discussed our time in Orlando. Each member that attended convention went 
around and told us about what they learned, and some of the highlights of 
the convention. We moved to the UNC Bizarre which has had its name changed 
to the UNC Student Involvement Fair. The check for the $50 fee has been sent 
and we will be setting up our table on August 25th at 11:00 AM on the south 
side of Bishop Lair Hall. The fair runs from noon to 3:00 PM. We will also 
be making a presentation that day as well. We can have as many people as we 
want to staff our table. CODY, Diane and Melissa have already said that they 
will be there on the 25th. We have decided that we will hand out candy with 
our NFB literature and that members will donate money to reimburse Linda who 
will go to Sams and get this candy for the fair. Melissa has put in an order 
for NFB literature. The chapter picnic is on September 7th. We have reserved 
the park, and will be distributing a flyer at our upcoming expo. The chapter 
may cover some of the food. There may also be the possibility that the local 
Lions Club may grill hot dogs and hamburgers for us; however, there has not 
yet been any commitment from them to do this. It is possible that we may 
have to submit a request to them for their help with barbecuing for the 
picnic. JESSICA and Melissa talked with our local chapter of the Lions Club 
this past Monday. They hold  meetings on the first and third  Monday of 
every month at the Cattleman's Stake House in Greeley. The Lions talked 
about  helping us with fundraising, doing a pancake breakfast for us and 
helping us raise  money to get the Greeley Tribune on NFB Newsline. The Club 
is doing a fundraiser which is a 5k walk and run next weekend that perhaps 
some of our members may wish to attend. We will try to find out more info on 
this later this week.  Jessica will put out the information from the flyer 
for the 5k on the Greeley List. She stated that the registration fee for 
this event is $25 and all of the money goes to the Lions Club. The fee is 
$20 if you have an old pair of eyeglasses that you can donate to the club. 
Regarding fundraising, we have sold all of our water bottles. Our second 
Cafe Mexicalli fundraiser has been set up for August 9. The coupons have 
been emailed to people, and we will put out an anouncement on the Colorado 
Talk List. Cody will set up an event on facebook also and invite people. 
Jessica asked if we are beginning to make candy bars for the expo. Diane 
will look for bags later today at Walmart, and Bill has donated $10 to help 
with buying chocolate. Jessica suggested that if we don't find bags, that we 
use plane aluminum foil and freeze them in freezer bags. Diane also wants 
to customize labels for the bars, and it was decided that we will charge $4 
per bar. We can drop the price down to $3 if we find that they aren't 
selling. Cody  asked who has a set  of molds. Melisssa has a set of molds, 
Diane has a set, and Marty has three sets. WE moved to discussion of the 
expo. Nure suggested that we have a  marshal to direct people to the second 
floor of the university center. Diane said that there is construction the 
first floor of the University Center that is not yet completed. We have 
several craft items to sell at our craft table at the Expo. It was decided 
that we would do a 50/50 raffle at the expo. We decided that we would 
electronically take down names and phone numbers and then put them into an 
Excel Spreadsheet at the end to be drawn electronically. It was also decided 
that we can have people who want to buy raffle tickets come to the craft 
table to get them. Diane will keep the Excel Spreadsheet containing the 
raffle information. Linda said that she would withdraw the money from the 
chapter account in order to make change for people who buy tickets and craft 
items. We will put out a donation box as well. Jessica will give vacation 
travel raffle tickets to Cody so that he can bring them up to the expo. We 
moved to presentations for the expo. We will have presentations on travel 
featuring the use of structured discovery as a travel technique,  Excel, 
Powerpoint,  and i-devices. There will also be a presentation from Freedom 
Scientific and a panel style presentation on advocacy. Jessica will email a 
schedule of presentations to the Greeley list later tonight. The 
presentations will be conducted throughout the day. Bill is going to have a 
table with household gagets that people can use daily at home for those who 
are wondering about how they will complete tasks of daily living with vision 
loss. We will put together an agenda with times of the presentations and 
blurbs from our venders, so everyone who has vendor info needs to send it to 
Cody by Tuesday evening to be placed into the agenda.  This will also  help 
'in the setup of tables. We talked about setting up one room of the two that 
have beeaen reserved  for the expo lecture style and have the other room set 
up with tables for exhibitors. We will know more this upcoming week about 
the specific number of exhibitors we will have. Melissa asked about giving 
out grab bags. It was suggested that we could have these bags at the table 
where people enter. Melissa will call around to see if we can find a grocery 
store that would be willing to donate plastic bags. We discussed getting the 
press release that we have developed about the expo out to the  Greeley 
Tribune, The fort Collins Coloradoan, The mirror at UNC and the AIMS 
Community College paper. Cody will send the release to the Mirror and the 
Tribune. Melissa will take care of the Coloradoan and will also see if we 
can get a copy of the release into a paper at AIMS. Rita said that she would 
distribute flyers around the city as well. As far as we are aware, we will 
have access to the rooms at the UC at  8:00 AM on the morning of the expo. 
Cody will check and see if we can get access to the rooms to set up tables 
and chairs the day before. Jessica reminded  us that our state convention 
will be coming up in October from the 17th through the 20th. Hotel rooms 
must be reserved by September 10th. Pregegistration will be $15, for the two 
lunches and $30 for the banquet. If you register at the door or after the 
fourth of October, the price goes up to $20 for the lunches and $45 for the 
banquet. Scott also wants all of us who can do so to send out an email 
blast to help sell vacation  travel raffle tickets. Jessica suggested that 
we do this as a chapter at our next meeting. We will find out if we have 
wireless at the Senior Center and if we can use it, and if not, then Jessica 
will see about getting her phone set up to be a wireless hotspot. The 
meeting was adjourned at 2:05 PM.
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