[Njagdu] Revised Minutes and agenda for Feb. 23 NJAGDU meeting

Sun Feb 22 17:30:12 UTC 2015

thanks for sending this to both e-mails,to manipulate icloud files I need to be on PC. Sorry for the long text i hope I did not offend because that was not my intent, it is so hard having to second guess in order to account for the pettiness of the three musketeers. The number of different instructions that I received had me going for awhile too.I think we really work well together though. So many new rules and formats to digest I guess we were more out of the loop than we thought on some things. Doing the next minutes should be easier. Alice

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Subject: [Njagdu] Revised Minutes and agenda for Feb. 23 NJAGDU meeting
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:09:45 -0500

Hello Everyone,
Below you will find revised minutes and an add on to our agenda.
Thank you all for your  patience and understanding.

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Please be sure to read the minutes before Monday’s meeting and please respond to me if you did not already  so I know if you will be making the meeting!
You will find our agenda below the minutes.

Thanks.
Trisha, President
NJAGDU

Reminder: Monday, February 23, 2015
Time: 7:00 PM
Call: 1 712 432 0180
Code: 460994

National Federation of the Blind of New Jersey New Jersey Association of Guide Dog Users
Next Step Conference Call
February 12. 2015

The meeting was called to order at 8:19 PM There was a problem with the conference call line.

Roll Call:
Trish Ebel, NFBNJ NJAGDU President

Alice Eaddy, Secretary

 Lynn Reynolds, Treasurer

 Anna DeSantis, Board member

Joe Ruffalo, NFBNJ President 

Ginger Kutsch

Angela Perone

Les Cameron

Kathy Rawa

Lydia Keller

Dan Facchini

Michael Halm

Joe Braz

 Jerilyn  Higgins

 Ryan Stevens, NFBNJ Parliamentarian

2. Call to order by President Trish Ebel at 8:19 PM.
Thank you for making the call and I would greatly   appreciate it  that 

from this day forward for you to please  RSVP to the email if you will or will not attend.

Trish turned the meeting over to Mr. Ruffalo who offered background, purpose and the goal of this call. He thanked Vincent for establishing this division, generating the resolution in 2009 that led to Dusty’s Law. Now we need to move on, take a deep breath and look to move onto the next step.

The agenda follows:

1. Review of the constitution:   has everyone received it and read it?  Are 
there any questions? I have received possible changes but will put amendments on hold in favor of working on a project to get us back to working as a team.

2. Discussion of the constitution:   I (Joe Ruffalo) have spoken with Marion 
Gwizdala, NAGDU President for his points of interest in this matter. Ryan: 
A member of a division may present an amendment to its constitution at any scheduled meeting.  The amendment would be read and discussed at that meeting, then put aside.  The amendment would then be read again at the next scheduled meeting and voted on at that time.  A two thirds majority of the members present and voting would be required for the amendment to become part of the division’s constitution.  It would also need to be reviewed by the Board of Directors of NFB of New Jersey to ensure it does not contradict anything in the affiliate constitution or the national organization’s constitution.

3. Next step:   Mr. Ruffalo proposed that we spend time on a project 
suggested by Trish:   we can begin by making others aware of Dusty’s Law. 
She would like us to send to her the following: our name, guide dog school we attended and  guide dogs name  Also think about finding out  location of pet care stores in our respective counties, animal shelters, veterinarians’ 
and the like to develop a database so these will be the first places that we contact. Things to be determined are:

A. contact list

B. verbiage for a poster to advertise

C. animal control and police stations.

Tara could then develop a press release. Ryan we could ask coworkers about their veterinarians’ and where they shop for their pet needs. Trish some vets now have portals on the net and can send notices out on their portals…so we need a poster to let them help to spread awareness.

Ginger:   Seeing Eye has a double sided poster that went out to graduates in 
October that could be directed towards animal control and the police. She can send it to the listserv as a descriptive word file and PDF.

Trish:  I would like to gather up  all names of each members guide dog school so we can begin inviting  a staff member to our meetings in the 
future and have them  do short and   different types of  presentations on 
all different topics.

Trish:   I plan to increase membership and grow and to do so we must be 
friendly and get along as well as work together as a team.

Joe:   we want to raise our division commitment level and in the fall 
discuss constitutional issues.

As we move forward:    Marion Gwizdala, the NAGDU President will be invited 
on our calls to provide leadership and guidance.

The leadership meetings would be an agenda item; for the next few months Trish should be on those calls. Leadership members are Presidents, chairs suggested by state affiliate president etc.

Discussion followed regarding attendance on leadership calls vs. board calls. Joe will again seek further clarification.

4. Monthly conference call:  We will conduct our  meeting each month at least for the next few months an then decide if we still want to continue on a monthly basis or do the calls every other month etc.

  Next call will be Monday, February 23 at 7:00 pm. It was suggested that I,
(Alice) Fwd. minutes to Trish and Cc him so that Trish could add the agenda and Fwd to paid membership.

Also, for future calls all minutes will be sent out 10 days prior to the meeting and a reminder message to our division two days prior in the future.

5. Transfer of banking signature cards:

Lynn provided a Treasurer’s Report: the ending balance as of November 30 
$505.A deposit of $70 dues and a $5 donation; this past week $20 more dues 
giving a total of $600.

Trish moved for a motion to accept the treasurer’s report, seconded by Lydia 
and approved unanimously.

Accounting procedures were discussed. Joe will decide who will host the 
state convention; perhaps our division could host and be in charge of a 
project to promote the posters.

Trish fundraising ideas: Joe a division could host the horserace now “dog 
race” to promote the division. He stated I am pro-dog, pro rights of the 
people and the responsibility of handlers is key. Ginger, I have concerns 
about the relief area:   Will it be in the same location, a draft was made 
regarding these concerns after last year’s state convention and it can be 
used by hotel staff in order to keep the confusion and miscommunication on 
this topic to a minimum. The guidelines were drafted for our NFB convention planners to refer to when selecting a convention site as well as when instructing hotel staff on relief area requirements. Ideally, a member of NJAGDU who is a guide dog handler will be appointed to serve as NJADGU’s guide dog relief area rep on the convention committee. The rep will ensure that the relief area guidelines are followed so that all convention participants with guide dogs will feel as welcome as other convention participants. She also mentioned a representative (Lukas Frank) 
could assist with this as well as, Mike and Les by doing a walk through at 
the    hotel.

6. Joe managing the list serve:   Trish and Vincent are taking the steps to 
list Trish as moderator instructions on how to join and access will be 
provided. We will need ideas so let’s roll up our sleeves!

Any more comments?

Trish said thank you all that are interested in making a difference and just 
give me a chance to show that we all are on the same side.

Joe:  We need to move forward as we draw new members and will follow Marion’s 
idea of no discussions on the amendments until a future date to be 
determined later.

7. Anna moved to adjourn, seconded by Kathy. It passed unanimously. The 
meeting adjourned at 9:27pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Alice Eaddy, Secretary

Agenda

1.        Called to order

2.         Roll call

3.       Minutes:  Alice

4.         Treasury report:  Lynn

                          A.  becoming a member

b. dues Policies

5.        Guide dog relief recommendations:  all

6.         Dusty’s flyer:  all

7.         Washington Seminar:  Joe

8.       Leadership call Update:  Trisha

9.         New Business
a. Guide Dog Update in Arizona:
Trisha and Joe
B.  Accessibility:  all
c.    Fundraising Ideas:  All
D.    Reminder phone calls

10.     Old Business

11.   Round the phone

12.     adjournment
Agenda submitted by:
Trisha Ebel, President
NJAGDU

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