[NFBF-Tampa] Minutes for Tampa Bay Chapter Meeting 20191123

Wed Jan 22 23:12:28 UTC 2020

Because we were meeting downtown and it’s gasparilla. This was decided before the birth. I seconded the motion.

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> On Jan 22, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Barbara Gaw <gawberg at verizon.net> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> I was wondering why there was not going to be a meeting this month. I understand why Miranda might be unable to attend, but that doesn’t mean we couldn’t have a meeting.
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> In any case since there will not be a meeting this month, I move we accept the minutes from the November meeting.
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> Barbara
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> On Wednesday, January 22, 2020, Merry Schoch via NFBF-Tampa <nfbf-tampa at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Thank you, Dan,. Our captain will not be having a meeting this month. The meeting for January has been canceled. Thank you!
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>> On Jan 22, 2020, at 5:58 AM, Merry Schoch via NFBF-Tampa <nfbf-tampa at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 18, 2020, at 8:31 PM, Dan Hicks via NFBF-Tampa <nfbf-tampa at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Minutes of Tampa Bay Chapter Meeting
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> November 23, 2019
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> The meeting was held at Beef ‘O’Brady’s Restaurant, 8810 North Himes Avenue, Tampa, Florida.
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> The meeting was called to order at 12:30 PM by the President, Miranda Kilby.
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> All present introduced themselves. About 21 persons were in attendance, including NFBF President Denise Valkema. The NFB Pledge was led by Vice President Merry Schoch.
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> Treasurer Dan Hicks gave the Treasurer’s Report. We have a balance of $2015.10 in our chapter treasury.
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> The minutes from the previous meeting were approved as emailed. Motion made by Board Member Marion Gwizdala. Seconded by Paul Martinez.
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> I her President’s Report, Miranda thanked the chapter for the flowers the chapter had sent to her and for all of our concern during her absence from the past few of meetings due to complications of her pregnancy. She knows that her baby is a girl and said she and Paul are going to name her Isabella Michelle Martinez. Her due date is February 1.
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> Raquel Pancho, Accessibility Coordinator of the City of Tampa, gave a presentation about projects in the City of Tampa. One project involved making tandem bicycles or tricycles available to citizens. Bicycles allowed on Tampa’s Riverwalk, but not electric scooters.
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> Merry mentioned rental scooters that are sometimes left on sidewalks around the city.
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> Board Member Marion Gwizdala mentioned an article that had been in the Braille Monitor about rental scooters left in the middle of sidewalks and how they are a hazard to blind pedestrians. He said he would forward the article to Raquel.
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> Raquel asked for further concerns and suggestions to be emailed to her.
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> There followed a discussion of a couple of proposed amendments to the chapter constitution. One of them dealt with changing the percentage of members needed to expel a member. The proposal would allow expulsion upon a vote greater than one-half of the membership rather then the present two-thirds.  The second proposed amendment would change our current system of electing the entire Board of Directors every two years, to a staggered vote: In even-numbered years the President and Secretary and teo board member would be elected. In odd-numbered years, the Vice President and Treasurer and one board member would be elected. It was also noted that the National Organization is working on changing the pronouns in its constitution to be gender more gender neutral.
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> Board Member Gloria Mills Hicks said that the reason for staggering the elections is that it virtually eliminates the possibility that an entire board could be replaced with all new members, with no board experience.
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> There was some discussion of the wording of the proposed amendments, which will be read at the January meeting and voted on in the Februrary meetings.
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> Dan suggested that the NFBF Board might want to update its Model Construction and allow chapters to adopt it if they are willing. He said he would volunteer to be on any committee assigned to work on such a proposed model.
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> Miranda said she would bring that idea up with the state board of directors.
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> Miranda said that our next meeting would be our Holiday Party at the home of Barbara Gaw. She asked members to submit what they were bringing to the party via the email list, to help avoid duplication.
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> Marion reminded us that our next meeting will be at the courthouse. We will be using some of the facilities of Crystal Bay Café, owned by Debbie Hietala, to hold our meetings. The café is located at the Hillsborough County Courthouse.
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> Gloria asked if there would be someone to help us find the café in the courthouse after we go through security.
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> Merry said that there definitely would be assistance.
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> The rest of the meeting was a baby shower for Miranda and Paul.
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> The winner of the 50/50 drawing was Noe Villeda. He won $27.00.
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> The meeting was adjourned at 1:30 PM.
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> Respectfully Submitted
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> Dan Hicks
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> Treasurer
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> Tampa Bay Chapter
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> National Federation of the Blind of Florida
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