[Nfb-greeley] 5-18 meeting minutes

Mon May 20 16:13:11 UTC 2013

Good job Marty.
You did not mention my ethics conversation.
Diane
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From: "Marty Rahn" <marty.rahn at juno.com>
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Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2013 8:13 PM
Subject: [Nfb-greeley] 5-18 meeting minutes


> 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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