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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>marty is having some technical
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>So here are the minutes attached and pasted in the
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>7/20/13</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal>The meeting was called to order
at 12:30 PM. Members present were Melissa, Cody, Jessica, Linda, Diane, Bill,
Rita, Nure and Dora. The minutes from the last meeting were approved with the
amendment of the change in amount from $140 to $29 that we made during the Cafe
Mexicalli fundraiser. Our treasury currently has $393.38 after all withdrawals.
Cody read an email from Joe Stultz stating that he could no longer be active in
our chapter. We then discussed our time in Orlando. Each member that attended
convention went around and told us about what they learned, and some of the
highlights of the convention. We moved to the UNC Bizarre which has had its name
changed to the UNC Student Involvement Fair. The check for the $50 fee has been
sent and we will be setting up our table on August 25th at 11:00 AM on the south
side of Bishop Lair Hall. The fair runs from noon to 3:00 PM. We will also be
making a presentation that day as well. We can have as many people as we want to
staff our table. CODY, Diane and Melissa have already said that they will be
there on the 25th. We have decided that we will hand out candy with our NFB
literature and that members will donate money to reimburse Linda who will go to
Sams and get this candy for the fair. Melissa has put in an order for NFB
literature. The chapter picnic is on September 7th. We have reserved the park,
and will be distributing a flyer at our upcoming expo. The chapter may cover
some of the food. There may also be the possibility that the local Lions Club
may grill hot dogs and hamburgers for us; however, there has not yet been any
commitment from them to do this. It is possible that we may have to submit a
request to them for their help with barbecuing for the picnic. JESSICA and
Melissa talked with our local chapter of the Lions Club this past Monday. They
hold<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>meetings on the first and
third<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Monday of every month at the
Cattleman's Stake House in Greeley. The Lions talked about<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>helping us with fundraising, doing a
pancake breakfast for us and helping us raise<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>money to get the Greeley Tribune on NFB
Newsline. The Club is doing a fundraiser which is a 5k walk and run next weekend
that perhaps some of our members may wish to attend. We will try to find out
more info on this later this week.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Jessica will put out the information from the flyer for the 5k on the
Greeley List. She stated that the registration fee for this event is $25 and all
of the money goes to the Lions Club. The fee is $20 if you have an old pair of
eyeglasses that you can donate to the club. Regarding fundraising, we have sold
all of our water bottles. Our second Cafe Mexicalli fundraiser has been set up
for August 9. The coupons have been emailed to people, and we will put out an
anouncement on the Colorado Talk List. Cody will set up an event on facebook
also and invite people. Jessica asked if we are beginning to make candy bars for
the expo. Diane will look for bags later today at Walmart, and Bill has donated
$10 to help with buying chocolate. Jessica suggested that if we don't find bags,
that we use plane aluminum foil and freeze them in freezer bags. Diane also
wants<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>to customize labels for the
bars, and it was decided that we will charge $4 per bar. We can drop the price
down to $3 if we find that they aren't selling. Cody<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>asked who has a set<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>of molds. Melisssa has a set of molds,
Diane has a set, and Marty has three sets. WE moved to discussion of the<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>expo. Nure suggested that we have a<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>marshal to direct people to the second
floor of the university center. Diane said that there is construction the first
floor of the University Center that is not yet completed. We have several craft
items to sell at our craft table at the Expo. It was decided that we would do a
50/50 raffle at the expo. We decided that we would electronically take down
names and phone numbers and then put them into an Excel Spreadsheet at the end
to be drawn electronically. It was also decided that we can have people who want
to buy raffle tickets come to the craft table to get them. Diane will keep the
Excel Spreadsheet containing the raffle information. Linda said that she would
withdraw the money from the chapter account in order to make change for people
who buy tickets and craft items. We will put out a donation box as well. Jessica
will give vacation travel raffle tickets to Cody so that he can bring them up to
the expo. We moved to presentations for the expo. We will have presentations on
travel featuring the use of structured discovery as a travel technique,<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Excel, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Powerpoint, <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>and i-devices. There will also be a
presentation from Freedom Scientific and a panel style presentation on advocacy.
Jessica will email a<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>schedule of
presentations to the Greeley list later tonight. The presentations will be
conducted throughout the day. Bill is going to have a table with household
gagets that people can use daily at home for those who are wondering about how
they will complete tasks of daily living with vision loss. We will put together
an agenda with times of the presentations and blurbs from our venders, so
everyone who has vendor info needs to send it to Cody by Tuesday evening to be
placed into the agenda.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This will
also<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>help 'in the setup of tables.
We talked about setting up one room of the two that<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>have beeaen reserved<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>for the expo lecture style and have the
other room set up with tables for exhibitors. We will know more this upcoming
week about the specific number of exhibitors we will have. Melissa asked about
giving out grab bags. It was suggested that we could have these bags at the
table where people enter. Melissa will call around to see if we can find a
grocery store that would be willing to donate plastic bags. We discussed getting
the press release that we have developed about the expo out to the<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Greeley Tribune, The fort Collins
Coloradoan, The mirror at UNC and the AIMS Community College paper. Cody will
send the release to the Mirror and the Tribune. Melissa will take care of the
Coloradoan and will also see if we can get a copy of the release into a paper at
AIMS. Rita said that she would distribute flyers around the city as well. As far
as we are aware, we will have access to the rooms at the UC at<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>8:00 AM on the morning of the expo.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Cody will check and see if we can get
access to the rooms to set up tables and chairs the day before. Jessica
reminded<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>us that our state
convention will be coming up in October from the 17th through the 20th. Hotel
rooms must be reserved by September 10th. Pregegistration will be $15, for the
two lunches and $30 for the banquet. If you register at the door or after the
fourth of October, the price goes up to $20 for the lunches and $45 for the
banquet. Scott also wants all of us who can do so to send out an email<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>blast to help sell vacation<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>travel raffle tickets. Jessica suggested
that we do this as a chapter at our next meeting. We will find out if we have
wireless at the Senior Center and if we can use it, and if not, then Jessica
will see about getting her phone set up to be a wireless hotspot. The meeting
was adjourned at 2:05 PM.</P></DIV></BODY></HTML>