[Nfb-greeley] 6-22-13 meeting minutes

Mon Jun 24 16:18:31 UTC 2013

Thanks Marty

I have not had the chance to read all the way through but I know they will
be great!  I look forward to a great read!

Best Wishes

Jess

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 4:25 AM, Marty Rahn <marty.rahn at juno.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Please find pasted below the minutes from the most recent meeting of our
> chapter.
>
> 6/22/13
>
> The meeting was called to order at 12:30 P.M. Members present were Linda,
> Diane, Rita, Melissa, Marty, Dora,  Bill Jessica, Cody, and Nure. Guests
> present were Lisa and Everit Gavel Becca and Amanda Feelix. Rita brought in
> a form from Ace Hardware for us to get a donation which we filled out and
> will submit. There was a brief discussion about whether or not the minutes
> from the May 18, 2013  meeting should be adopted as they were posted to the
> ZFB of Greeley internet mailing list or whether they should be changed to
> include a discussion on the April elections during which one of our members
> brought up some concerns that she had about the way that she felt the
> elections were handled. It was decided after further discussion and a vote
> by a majority of the paid members present at this current meeting, that
> this conversation need not be included in the minutes from the May 18th
> meeting since at this same meeting, a discussion and review of the election
> proceedures outlined in the newly developed chapter constitution and how
> those same proceedures were followed during the elections was undertaken by
> the  membersship of the chapter. It was thus explained that the elections
> had been conducted in accordance with the newly developed constitution of
> this chapter. The minutes were then accepted with the amendment of the
> start time of the meeting from 11:15 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. We have as of
> 5/31/13 $702.38. We wrote a check for $50 for the BELL Program and another
> for $50 for the rental of the park for our September picnic and $200 for
> the four of  us who are going to convention. We currently have $443.38. We
> made $140 from the Cafe Mexicalli fundraiser and have $5 from the payment
> of Dora's dues that were also deposited. There was some discussion about
> putting a donation bucket on each table within the restaurant the next time
> we have our   Cafe  Mexicalli fundraiser in order to potentially get
> donations. We need to check and see if we can do this. The vision expo
> needs to be marketed to the public now that we are a little more than a
> month out. Linda has given Sherry Lobemeyer a copy of the  flyer for the
>  expo and she is going to print it in the newsletter for the  senior
> center. Linda contacted someone at the tribune who said that if we email
> then they will also put the flyer in  the calendar of  Events section. We
> should email the flyer to Kristen Schmidt at kschmidt%greeleytrib_com. We
> talked about hanging flyers at UNC and Diane said that she would be willing
> to do this. Marty will email the flyer for our expo to Tanni Anthony so
> that it can be  distributed to the TVIS around the state, and we will
> create an event on facebook also. Melissa will contact Dana at Aims and has
> also sent out the flyer to Becky Porter, a rehab teacher in the area.
> Jessica suggested having a meeting with some of the key stakeholders such
> as Vocational Rehabilitation either via the phone or in person to discuss
> why our expo is important to them and their clients besides dropping off
> the flyers at their offices. Linda has not had much success in contacting
> the Colorado Talking Book Library. Jessica said that they were on her
> vendor list and should have gotten the emails she has sent out. DSS is
> sponsoring us and is covering   the $400 cost of the room at UNC for the
> expo. We have firm commitments from Freedom Scientific, Connections for
> Independent Living, AKB Vision, Voc Rehab, Insight Skills Center, Magnesite
> and the Audio Information Network of Colorado. Beyond Sight has said that
> they are 95 percent sure that they will attend. AI Squared is unable to
> attend and You Can Too Can will try to attend but will send catalogs if
> they can't. We have received literature from The Guide Dog Foundation, but
> have not received any from other guide dog schools that were contacted
> including the Seeing Eye, Leader Dogs for the Blind and Guide Dogs for the
> Blind. LEARNING Ally has also been contacted but we are unsure if they are
> coming to our expo. Melissa will contact AGA and Cody will contact USABA.
> Cody has contacted people about setting up a committee to work out
> demonstrations at the expo. Marty, Nure, "jessica, Cody and Dora are on
> this committee. This committee will meet this Monday evening at 7:00 P.M.
> Regarding fundraising we are looking at exploring other places that do the
> same as Cafe Mexicalli with the coupons that allow a group to earn a
> percentage of the  proceeds_Noodles and Company and Johnny Korinnos stand
> out as possible restaurants for this type of fundraiser. Noodles does their
> fundraiser throughout the entire state. Jessica suggested that we see if
> Noodles could donate a meal that would feed a certain number of people and
> we could sell tickets for $10 a piece or so. We will keep Noodles on the
> back burner for now. Cody has been in contact with the president of the
> local Lions Club. Melsssa and Jessica will present to the Lions Club on
> July 15th. They will be focusing their presentation on some of the
> activities in which our chapter engages.  We discussed making the candy
> bars and it was decided that we should begin making them now for the expo.
> Convention is coming up next week and we briefly discussed selling the
>  remainder of our water bottles at convention. Those who have bottles will
> take them to convention. Chris has seven bottles and needs to get these to
> Jessica so that they can be split up among those from our chapter who are
> going from the Denver area. The park for our September 7th picnic is
> reserved from 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. We discussed marketing our   picnic
> and inviting people in order to begin our push for the growth of our
> chapter membership. Everit asked if we had contacted diabetic equipment
> manufacturers or Envision America to demonstrate at  our expo. He also
> suggested that we invite someone involved with tandem cycling to our picnic
> to demonstrate how tandem cycling works and to provide rides as a fun
> activity. Cody said that he would make up a flyer for the picnic. He will
> also contact Lorinda to see about the rules for public gaming so that we
> can have a 50-50 raffle at the vision expo. For us to get a table at the
> UNC fall Bizarre, we would need to pay $25. We think that the date of the
> Bizarre is August 26, but Melissa will verify the exact date and email the
> members. We'd also like to have a table at AIMS Welcome Week, but we are
> not sure when it is and have been unable to contact anyone at AIMS to get
> details. Jessica gave us a quick report on the activities of our state
> afiliate The travel raffle has been started again. Tickets are $10 for one
> and $2^ for three. Purchasers will get their ticket  numbers via email, but
> not their stubs unless they specifically request them. The BELL program in
> West Minster will begin on the 15th of July and run through the 27th. We
> were unable to have our BELL program in Colorado Springs due to low numbers
> of registrants. October 17-20 are the dates of our state convention which
> will be held in Colorado  Springs. Room rates are $85 across the board. The
> Colorado Center for the Blind is having a 25th year anniversary celebration
> on September 13-14th. We have a new chapter that has been established in
> Fort Collins. It is called the Poudre Valley chapter. The meeting was
> adjourned at 2:00 P.M.
>
> Respectfully submitted,
> Marty Rahn, Secretary
>
> sincerely,
> 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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Jessica Beecham
Chapter and Community Development Coordinator
National Federation of the Blind of Colorado
2233 West Shepperd Ave.
Littleton, CO 80210
jbeecham at cocenter.org
720-440-2632
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