[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: 2018 Krafter's Korner Election Survey
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Thu Jul 12 18:12:10 UTC 2018
As Cindy S. Ramona and myself wrote the Constitution for this division by
using the NFB Constitution and Dr. Maurer assigned Ramona as adviser on
this, may I suggest that anyone interested read our division Constitution.
Cindy S. has made a bit of incorrect statement here.
This is from the Constitution:
"Article V. Officers and Their Duties. There shall be elected at the
regular annual meeting during each even-numbered year: President, First Vice
President, Second Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The two-year
terms of these officers shall begin at the close of the meeting at which
they are elected and qualified. Officers shall be elected by a majority
vote of the active members present and voting. There shall be no proxy
voting. If no nominee receives a majority vote on the first ballot, the
name of the person receiving the fewest votes shall be dropped from the list
of nominees, and a second ballot shall be taken. This procedure shall
continue until one of the nominees has received a majority vote from the
active members present and voting. The duties of each officer shall be
those ordinarily associated with that office. The President and the Vice
Presidents must be blind.
The wording includes President, First Vice President, Second Vice President
must be blind.
Joyce
Article VI. Board of Directors. The Board of Directors of this
organization shall consist of the five constitutional officers and two
additional members who shall be elected for two-year terms in odd-numbered
years. At the organizational meeting in 2008 the two Board Members shall be
elected for one-year terms. Board members shall be elected in the same
manner as that prescribed for the election of officers. The Board shall
meet at the call of the President or by request of any 3 Board members. The
Board shall advise the President and shall have charge of the affairs of the
organization between meetings. At least 4 members of the Board of Directors
must be present at any meeting to constitute a quorum to transact business.
The Board may be polled by telephone, mail ballot, or by email on any
question. A majority of the Board must be blind."
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From: Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf
Of Cindy S via Nfb-krafters-korner
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 2:01 AM
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Cc: Cindy S <slerythema at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: 2018 Krafter's Korner Election Survey
While I am very late to this discussion, I would like to comment on a couple
of key points for Jill and all KK members, especially those fairly new to
NFB.
The NFB has a constitution that states that the President and Vice President
of a division or state or chapter must be blind (the NFB considers low
vision as being in the blind category). Second, a majority of the board (all
positions), must be blind. For our division, that means that we must have
four blind members on the board (the president, in our case 1st Vice
President, and any other two members of the board).
As far as having Cindy Z. on the board while being a sighted member of the
division (irregardless of feelings), there is absolutely NO reason that she
cannot serve. She cannot be president or 1st vice president, but that is the
only limitation. She is very active in this division, she does NOT hold
sightedness as being superior, she embodies the NFB philosophy of blindness
not holding us back, and she has done an exceptional job from the beginning
of being our treasurer (I have experience with her as both a board member
and a general member of this division).
These specifications in the NFB have come from experiences where chapters
have been dominated by sighted individuals and taken over almost all
leadership positions claiming they do not have qualified blind people to
fill those roles. We want to be the blind speaking for the blind, but we
have no problem with sighted individuals that get it and want to participate
actively. As far as I know, the Parents Division is the only one that is
allowed an exception to this rule and they may in fact try to follow these
blind majority and president, and vice president rules but I am not active
in that division. Even if they cannot maintain the majority blind rule they
must still embody the message of the NFB. (Ramona may in fact know more
about this).
I hope this has helped our new members and even our old members that may not
have had enough experience with the NFB outside of their own chapter or
state.
Well steeped in Constitution knowledge.
Cindy S.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 9:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: 2018 Krafter's Korner Election Survey
Ramona,
I appreciate your dedication to the division and the Federation as a whole.
I can only speak for myself, so I will. I initially joined this division to
learn and fill a void in my life at that time. My daughter was very small,
I had decided to be a stay at home MOM for a while, but needed something
just for me. Crafts became my adult time. Over the years I not only
learned to crochet, loom knit, basket weave, jewelry making, origami,
kumihimo, tunishian crochet, macramé , plastic canvas, quilt, and after 3
different classes, I can finally needle knit some! I love this group! The
members are my extended family. Just like any family, we will disagree and
argue. My hope is who ever wins works diligently to call the family
together again. That is not meant for one side or the other, but both. I
am pretty sure that there has been hurt feelings on both side of the rift.
No one should be mistreated. We should be here to encourage each other.
I currently am a member of the NFB Krafters Division. I do not have a local
chapter, but have approached our state president Barbara Manual about
starting a chapter. I don't fore see being able to take this on until after
convention. I have a lot of responsibilities at work. I am working for the
Alabama Dept. of Rehabilitation Services. I have attended the last 2 state
conventions. I participated in the first ever Alabama Bell Academy, which
was awesome! Braille Rocks! I can truly say that I saw an amazing
transformation for one of my consumers that I encouraged to attend Bell.
Here in our state TVI's are in great need. This young lady was 16, but in
my opinion gained the most from Bell. She has only been blind for 2 years,
and has no TVI. She blossomed. In 2 weeks time, she learned the entire
braille alphabet and around 10 contractions. She became more confident in
what her future would be. It has been the spark for me to fully embrace the
NFB philosophy " Live the Life you want!" To answer the question about
assuming the role of president in 2 years, I would be honored to serve a
group which means so much to me. I like you Ramona, have a great
appreciation to Joyce for having the dream and vision. I would definitely
need help. I have a lot of responsibilities, but delegating should be a
skill that a president should possess. I however right now am concerned
with the state of the union. I feel that at this point no matter who is
selected as president, there will still be problems . I know that Cindy
feels that she has been mistreated this last year. I believe that Joyce
feels the same. I am again only expressing my thoughts and feelings. My
opinion is that because this is a division of the NFB, it's leadership
should be primarily blind/ visually impaired. My feelings are based upon
our parent organizations philosophy, we should be the voice of the blind
speaking for ourselves. That doesn't mean that I don't think that Cindy
could be a good and effective leader. It means that because we ourselves
want to control our programs and mission, we want to self determine our own
divisions and needs. I pose this question, how difficult would it be for
someone blind to take over a local knitting guild? The first task would be
to prove to the guild that in fact you can knit. Then that a blind person
can be responsible and organized. Then that a blind person can effectively
run meetings. Each time having to prove yourself. So my thought is due to
this attitude that the sighted world has of blindness, we should have
privelleges among our own organizations. I don't mean to offend or state
that my thinking is the right one, but my own. I would love to see the
division grow in membership. I would love to seek out young and talented
blind individuals to help us start our own youtube channel. I want to see
classes which are challenging. We have had a lot of classes this year.
Some challenging some not. Having both is good, but sometimes smaller
projects could be reserved for Monday night chats. Like with the craft
extravaganza , we can promote the smaller projects to non members and show
them how phone classes are held. I would like to see the division move
towards charitable projects again. We once spoke of partnering with the
human services division, why not revisit that idea. I want to be able to
teach classes again. I want to be more than a voice on the chat line and
silly squirrel storyteller. I want a group of friends again, and not
enemies. So once you have time to read and process my novel I wrote, I hope
you realize that in the words of Joyce Kane " It takes all of us to make
Krafters Korner what it is".
Sincerely,
Jill Rossiter
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 8:39 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: 2018 Krafter's Korner Election Survey
Do we know that nobody else wants to seek office? Or is this the nominating
committee recommendations? I haven't heard Cindy say she would not
continue as Treasure if asked. Also, members need to be reminded who is
serving on the Board and not up for election this year. If one of them is
elected to an office, then that position becomes open.
I don't object to the survey if it makes people feel better, but nobody can
really express opinion unless he or she knows the complete picture.
I haven't heard enough from Tammy or Joyce to know at this point which one
I would vote for for President. Joyce has done a wonderful job and has
said she wants a successor. Is this too soon? Why is Tammy not running for
Vice President to prepare? Does Jill really want to be President in two
years? It is not urgent that I know these things today, but if they are at
the convention, I will ask. If they are not there, then I am concerned about
how strong a President or Vice President anyone can be. Not every leader
has to be at convention every year, but the President must interact with the
entire NFB in order for the Division to be strong.
I am not seeking office, but I have seen how things work in the NFB for more
than fifty years, and I have seen what things don't work. And I care about
both the Division and the NFB.
Ramona
Ramona
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Sent: Monday, June 11, 2018 5:13 PM
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Cc: Cathy Flesher <flowersandherbs at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: 2018 Krafter's Korner Election Survey
Hi Ramona and all,
I believe the survey is for those who cannot attend the convention to have
the opportunity to have their voices heard. When the results of the survey
are posted, all of us can get an idea of how the members who are not
attending convention feel. yes, there is only one position with more than
one person running, but it would be interesting to see who folks would like
to vote for if they were able to attend convention.
In future years, we may have more than one person running for other
positions.
Make this a wonderful day!
Cathy F
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