[Nfb-greeley] meeting minutes from 1-18-14

Sun Feb 9 02:55:19 UTC 2014

Yes, great job.

Best,
Melissa R Green
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: codyjbair at yahoo.com
To: Greeley, Colorado Internet Mailing List
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2014 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-greeley] meeting minutes from 1-18-14

The minutes look excellent!

Cody

From: Marty Rahn
Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎February‎ ‎8‎, ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎46‎ ‎PM
To: nfb-greeley at nfbnet.org

Hi all,

Please find the meeting minutes from the last meeting below. Thanks.

1/18/14

The meeting was called to order at 12:20 PM. People present were Melissa, 
Marty, Cody, Linda, Bill, and Rita. Joe Goode was present as a guest. the 
December minutes were accepted as posted to the Greeley List. The 
treasurer's report says that we have a balance of $502.72 which doesn't 
include the deposit of $71 made on January 2nd. This was from candy bars 
sales. This gives us a total balance of $573.72. Linda doesn't think that 
the check for $50 we wrote to the state has gone through yet. Cody will 
check with the state to see about the check and will also check on getting 
the money from Jessica that she still owes us for the water bottles she 
sold. We have the account set up on Paypal, but it is not yet connected to 
our bank account. Linda had to receive a new debbit card for our checking 
account and has yet to enter this info into the Paforpal account. Re: 
fundraising, Melissa said that to ship an order of candy bars out of state 
to New Mexico, it costed the chapter $18.92. To ship an order to Denver, it 
cost us about $13. We need to decide whether or not we want to purchase our 
own packing materials or whether to charge people more for the cos of 
shipping. It was also suggested that we check with the post office to see 
how much it would cost us to ship a package if it has already been packed. 
Cody asked if we wanted to set prices today so that we can  tell people how 
much shipping will be in addition to what we are charging per candy bar. 
Bill said that we could figure about $3 to ship each bar. We agreed to let 
people know that each bar will now cost $7 a bar. This includes $4 for the 
bar and $3 for the cost of shipping each bar. Melissa said that people were 
asking if it was possible for us to make bars with other designs besides the 
molds we currently have. There was agreement that getting molds custom made 
might cost too much. We tabled this idea for now. We then moved to 
discussing a big fundraiser such as a dinner we could put on perhaps with 
the help of the local Lions Club. Cody feels that we want to put together an 
event which will allow us to target more people. He said that we should try 
to see if the district Govenor would help us out since our local club is so 
small. He will see if he can get contact info for the district govenor from 
Jessica or if Jessica wants to reach out and make the contact since she 
already knows this person. We also agreed that we need to have a backup plan 
in case we can't get help from the Lions Club. We need to start looking for 
a place to have our event and to plan  volunteers and ways to get food 
donated. There is consensus that this type of  fundraiser is doable. Cody 
suggested that we all think of and contact various places in the community 
to which we have connections in order to see if we can find a place to hold 
our dinner. He also suggested that we look into Noodles and Company to see 
if they might be willing   to donate food. Melissa suggested that we look at 
May and centering our dinner around Mother's Day which would be the 10th of 
May. Joe said that he had a couple coworkers who were good at fundraising 
and he will see what suggestions they may have. We agreed to begin trying to 
find a place and trying to contact the Lions. Some of the places that were 
suggested for members to call were churches, UNC, Bonelle, Greeley Place and 
the  city  libraries. The two dates we will look at in May are the 3rd and 
the 17th. Cody will check with the Lions Club and see about finding out 
other places we can contact. Melissa will call her church,  UNC, the 
libraries and UCCC. We then moved on to a discussion of the New Perspectives 
Expo and  whether we wish to do it again this year. There was agreement that 
we should try to have it around the mid to end of  August and try to see 
about doing it again at UNC. We can make sure that in our advertising, we 
gear it to all age groups as well as specify that it is for all types of 
people including those with low vision. Over the next s"everal minutes, many 
things were discussed including whether we may be taking on too much with 
both the fundraising dinner and the vision expo, and the fact that we wanted 
to continue the relationship with the Disability Services office at UNC. 
Cody will see if UNC is receptive to doing the fare again. We also have 
events coming up at AIMS such as the Disability Awareness Month and National 
White Cane Safety Day in October with which we will be helping. The day at 
the Capital will be on February 28th from 9:00-12:00 PM in Denver. The 
afiliate is willing to help cover transportation and hotel room costs. There 
is also an open board meeting that will be held that evening that all are 
welcome to attend. Among the legislative issues we will be working to 
susport are obtaining more money for Newsline and AINC, strengthening the 
braille  bill and supporting the antiddirimination against people with 
disabilities act. We then talked about the Iphone seminar and planning this 
for February. We discussed having our  seminar run for about 2 hours so that 
we can astract as many people as possible and get through as much info as 
possible. We will hold the seminar on February 15th from 1:00-3:00 PM. We 
will try to hold a brief chapter meeting before the seminar if everyone can 
arrive by noon, and then schedule a conference call some time the folllowing 
week to discuss any matters to which we don't get before the seminar begins. 
Cody will work on the flyer advertising the seminar and will try to get it 
to Melissa by Monday night. Melissa said that we got a thank you card from 
North Range Behavioral Health  thanking us for the donations from the 
chapter. Kristy also sent us a thank you note as well. The meeting was 
adjourned at 1:40 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Marty Rahn, Secretary,

National federation of The Blind of Colorado, Greeley Chapter

Warm Regards,
Marty Rahn, Ma,
Teacherof Students with Visual Impairments
Weld Re-8, Re-3j, and Morgan Re-3
Home: 970-353-5067
Cell: 719-271-9496
Email: marty.rahn at juno.com

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