[Nfb-greeley] 5-18 meeting minutes
Marty Rahn
marty.rahn at juno.com
Mon May 20 13:20:44 UTC 2013
LOL! My bad. I didn't catch that. I'll correct it. Thanks.
Marty Rahn, NFBG Secretary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cody Bair" <codyjbair at yahoo.com>
To: "Greeley, Colorado Internet Mailing List" <nfb-greeley at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-greeley] 5-18 meeting minutes
> Martyexcellent job on the minutes! One minor correction though, the
> meeting was called to order at 12:15 instead of 11:15
> Thanks,
> Cody
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 19, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Marty Rahn <marty.rahn at juno.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please find the minutes for yesterday's meeting pasted below. Please let
>> me know if there are any corrections. Thanks.
>>
>> 5/18/13
>>
>> The meeting was called to order at 11:15 AM. We went around and did
>> intros for the benefit of those who haven't been to a meeting in quite
>> some time. Cody, Nure Melissa, Marty, Linda, Diane Joe, Rita and dora
>> were all present at the beginning of the meeting with Bill coming in
>> later. Cody went through the agenda which was vnting on the minutes
>> followed by the treasurer's report, info on the vision expo, fundraising,
>> the piçnic for the chapter and the UNC BIZARRE and anouncements for
>> national convention. We approved last month's meeting minutes with the
>> corrcction of changing of Lorinda's name to from loraine in the minutes.
>> The treasurer said that we currently had a balance of $652.38 in our
>> account. We had $622.38 last month and collected $80 in dues the sale of
>> two water bottles and a donation of $4. The check that was written out as
>> a donation for the BELL program was for $50. The New Perspectives Vision
>> Expo which will be held on July 31st in the Colombine A and B Ballrooms
>> at the University Center on the UNC campus. The committee met the
>> Wednesday after our last meeting to discuss the planning of the fair.
>> They divided the exhibitor's into fourths then they each contacted their
>> respective groups of exhibitors. Cody has a commitment from Francie
>> Leafert with Nanopack, a distributor of Freedom Scientific products, and
>> DVR. Melissa said she has a commitment from Connections for Independent
>> living. She has also contcted You Can To Can, the vision program at UNC,
>> Dana Jones, the DISABLED Student Services office director at Aims,
>> Envision and North Range Behavioral Health, but does not yet have firm
>> commitments from these contacts. Linda has contacted Curtis Strong and
>> has received a verbal commitmentf the person dayd Steve with whom she
>> spoke. Linda left messages for Debbie McLeod, director of the Colorado
>> Talking Book Library who is out of the office, as well as Kim Ann
>> Warrilow from the Audio Information Network of Colorado to try to pen
>> down their commitments. Dora has not contacted Techy Joe yet, but will do
>> so soon. The time of the fair will run from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM. The
>> chapter will not be providing lunch because of the catering
>> difficulties and the money that it would cost to have it catered by UNC.
>> UNC will give us water and coffee for free. Melissa will check on how
>> much the catering fthrough UNC would cost so that we at least have an
>> idea. The room will cost $400 for that time and the state will cover some
>> of this cost according to Jessica, but it would be good if the chapter
>> could cover at least half of the cost. This would be about $200.00. Lunch
>> was briefly discussed for those of us do would be there all day, and it
>> was decided that we could either bring our own lunch or go in shifts to
>> the various venues around the UNIVERSITY Center. It was asked why we were
>> not having the fair at the Sensor Center and it was explained that we
>> will be able to fit more exhibitors in the ballrooms, that the Senior
>> Center is pretty booked during the week and is only open a certain amount
>> of time on the weekends. Overall, it was felt that the ballrooms at the
>> University Center will allow us to accommodate and attract more guests
>> due to the centrality of the location. The chapter will have a table and
>> there will also be a literature table. We discussed marketing the fair by
>> having an ad placed in the Greeley Tribune, placing additional ads in
>> some of the senior newsletters and hanging flyers on the UNC and Aims
>> campuses. It was suggested that we write up a uniform ad to place in the
>> papers and newsletters. It was further suggested that we can take the
>> rellivant details from our flyer to place in these ads to avoid spending
>> a lot of money when ads charge for spaceever or by number of words.
>> Cody will send the flyer to the Greeley List. We discussed having a
>> 50-50 rafle and taking down contact info so that we can get in touch with
>> those who have already left by the time the drawing is held. Everyone
>> seemed aminable to this idea. We are planning to begin advertising the
>> fair around the 1st of July. The committee and its various members will
>> have an updated report on the 22nd of June as to the number of new
>> commitments that have been confirmed, and other details rrlated to
>> planning for the fair. We then took up the topic of fundraising. MELISSA
>> stated that she has emailed the owner of the Cafe Mexicali. The
>> restaurant will design a couprn with the NFB logo and stating that the
>> NFB of Gffeeley will get 20 percent of the proceeds from those who
>> present these coupons on a certain night of our choosing. We discussed
>> choosing a date for this sometime during the first waek in June. Melissa
>> said that she would email the owner of the restaurant today with the
>> date. It was suggested that if we are going to advertise in other places
>> such as Denver that we talk to Jessica to see if we can get a van to
>> bring people up on the night of the fundraiser. Nur'e will talk with
>> Jessica about this. Nure suggested having an auction but we were unsure
>> of how to do this seeing as howthe event is being held at the restaurazt
>> itself. The restaurant is located on Center Place Drive in the shopping
>> center there. June 7th was suggested and agreed upon as the date to have
>> the Cafe Mexicalli fundraiser. Regarding the bake sale, Cody has had
>> minimal success with contacting Wallmart and King Soopers. We discussed
>> talking to a nonprofit such as the Arc Thrift Store. It was decided that
>> this is what we would do. We briefly discussed making the chocolate bars
>> using the braille molds and Diane said that along with Linda, Melsssa and
>> Marty, she would help make candybars. Cody thenbrought up trying to get a
>> grant from the local Lions Club. Cody will research the grant with
>> Dora's help, and will hopefully have a leport by the next meeting. Joe
>> Stultz suggested that we need to develop a working relationship with the
>> members of our local chapter rthe Lions Club. He told us that the local
>> Lions chapter meets at the Rec Center every Monday night. We moved next
>> discussed National Convention. Web registration will close on June 1st.
>> This is also the point at which our block of rooms will no longer be
>> held at the hotel. Melissa, myself, Rita, Dora, Nure and Cody are going
>> to National this year from our chapter. We talked briefly about whether
>> or not to get more water bootles and decided that we have 12 left which
>> would be a pure profit of $96.00 if we can sell all of them at
>> convention. A motion was made and seconded that we give $50 to the four
>> of us going to convention who are not having their way paid by either
>> state or national due to their winning scholarships. This would total
>> $200 that the chapter would give. The m"tion was approved. Cody then
>> asked about a summer picnic for the chapter. Linda brought up that it
>> would be $50 to reserve the park. A discussion ensued about whether the
>> chapter should cover either the cost of reserving the park or the main
>> food item with others bringing sides much like we did last year. It was
>> motioned and seconded that the chapter cover the park and perhaps the
>> food once we see how much revenue our fundraising efforts produce. This
>> was appooved. We talked about reserving Sedborn park forSaturday
>> September 7th. Linda will reserve the park. Melsssa will check on
>> possible costs and what it would take to have a table at both the Unca
>> Bizarre and Aims Welcome Week. Cody informed us that NFBCO now has a
>> transportation committee that is working o improving transprotation
>> across the entire state. This committee is run by Gary Vandorn who would
>> like to be at one of our meetings. We set the date of the next meeting in
>> july for Saturday July 20th. The meeting for June is on the 22nd. The
>> meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM.
>>
>>
>>
>> sincerely,
>> Marty Rahn, Ma
>> Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments
>> Weld Re-8, Weld Re-3J, Weld Re-4 and Morgan Re-3
>> Home: (970) 353-5067
>> Cell: (719) 271-9496
>> Email: marty.rahn at juno.com
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