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

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marty.
just some braille contractions that didn't translate well.
Other than that very detailed minutes.
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marty Rahn" <marty.rahn at juno.com>
To: <nfb-greeley at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2013 4:25 AM
Subject: [Nfb-greeley] 6-22-13 meeting minutes


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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