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

Mon Jun 24 17:39:09 UTC 2013

Thanks, Melissa. I saw that. Guess there's always that risk when translating 
braile to text on a braille notetaker. *grin*

Marty
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From: "melissa R green" <graduate56 at juno.com>
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> marty.
> just some braille contractions that didn't translate well.
> Other than that very detailed minutes.
> Blessings,
> Melissa Green and PJ
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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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