<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Excellent job Marty!</div><div>One correction though, we made 36 dollars from the Cafe Mexicali fund raiser not 140.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Cody<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jun 24, 2013, at 11:54 AM, "Marty Rahn" <<a href="mailto:marty.rahn@juno.com">marty.rahn@juno.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I went through and changed the braille mistakes in
the minutes. They are once again pasted below with these changes. Sorry for the
inconvenience.</font></div>
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<div>6/22/13<br><br>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 NFB 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 procedures
outlined in the newly developed chapter constitution and how those same
procedures were followed during the elections was undertaken by the
membership 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 <a href="mailto:kschmidt@greeleytrib.com">kschmidt@greeleytrib.com</a>. 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, Magnisight 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. Melissa 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 $20 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.<br><br>Respectfully
submitted,<br>Marty Rahn, Secretary</div>
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