[Travelandtourism] Updates on the NFB Travel & Tourism Meeting on July 5, 2015 from 6:00 PM-6:30 PM Registration to meeting 6:30 - 9:30PM maybe longer

Sat Jun 13 12:56:56 UTC 2015

Good morning all members of the NFB Travel & Tourism Division:

Some of you may get this email twice, only because I do not know who is on
the talk list or not, and we need all members having the same information.
If you are  an existing members, someone not attending the meeting at
convention, and people on the NFB Talk list that are new and want to join
the division.

Anyone at the convention can join any meeting or seminar, but with
membership in any organization has benefits over non-members.

Remember, if you are not a paid member of the division, you cannot vote or
make a motion, but you are welcome to join in discussions and participate.

To make sure that we know who is who at convention, since we will have a few
sighted people with us, and Treasurer, Johanna Taylor, has vision. We will
be doing a roll call at the meeting on July 5th, of those people who have
paid, and ask all paid members sit on one side of the room and non-members
sit on the other side of the room, especially when we are taking votes and
making a motion this is only fair.  

This is a reminder, if you haven't been active, and we are starting to be a
very active monthly division with monthly teleconference calls and more.

Please remember to pay your annual dues at our meeting which is at 6PM
Registration - 6:30PM, meeting will start promptly at 6:30 PM and continue
until 9:30 PM maybe longer, I don't think we have another meeting after us.
It will be in Salon 17 on the 2nd Floor. Please have exact change of $10
especially if you are the first people to pay. If you are paying by check or
money order, have this done before leaving for home and make the checks out
to the NFB Travel & Tourism. We will also have an option of paying via
credit card, but this is only if the WI-FI in the hotel is working properly,
so try to bring money with you.

We will have at least 2 people at the registration table, please make sure
that you spell and give your first name, last name, email, address and phone
number. We had some issues last year, and many people weren't receiving
information.

After the meeting starts and you come in late, we will not be taking anymore
dues. If you would like to pay your dues prior to convention, you can send a
check to our Treasurer, Mrs. Johanna Taylor. Dues are still $10 and no do
not send cash through the mail, send checks or money orders made out to: NFB
Travel & Tourism, please mail it to 654 W 1820 N, Orem, UT 84057.

If you would like to pay with credit card, we do have the option of going to
our website and paying through PayPal

http://nfbtravel.org/how-to-join-the-nfb-travel-tourism-division/

If you are not attending convention this year, yoru dues are now do. We will
be taking minutes and it will be posted in the Braille Monitor, on the
travelandtourism at nfbnet.org <mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> ; on our
website www.nfbtrave.org <http://www.nfbtrave.org> ; on our Facebook page

www.Facebook.com/NFB-Travel-and-Tourism-Division
<http://www.Facebook.com/NFB-Travel-and-Tourism-Division> 

We will also be having a 50/50 raffle at the end of the meeting the 1st 50
people that attend will get a card with a braille number on it when we pull
this number you will win, bring cash, and let the person who is doing the
raffle at the front door that you are participating.  Please help our your
division!

Agenda for the meeting:

Pledge of Allegiance and the National Federation of the Blind Pledge

Introductions of the Officers

Presidential Report from Cheryl Echevarria

Elections: Only on Treasurer, Secretary and 1 Board Member 

Glenda Farnum, had to step down due to personal issues as our Treasurer, and
we need to vote in interim Treasurer, Johanna Taylor, as Treasurer, she has
been acting Treasurer since February 2015.

Margo Downey, had to step down due to personal issues as our Secretary, and
John TeBockhorst has been our interim Secretary since December 2014,  he has
to be voted in a Secretary.

Which means, we have an opening for another board member. Ms. Denise Brown
has indicated she is interested, and we need to vote her in.   

Should anyone else like to run. You need to be a paid member of the
division, we hope that you are  an active one.

Treasurers Report - Johanna Taylor

Minutes of the Meeting from Convention 2014

Business:

2016 Fundraiser Trip Committee: All paid members, there  will be 2 trip
options available, they are not finalized yet, some tweaking here and there,
but  these trips will take place September 2016.  

Margo Downey will be reading her report from the Air Travel Conference from
Washington, DC that she attended September 2014 with other disability
organizations

Presentation by member Denise Brown on why she likes to travel and where she
likes to travel.

There will be a 5-10 minute Q&A, and it will be monitored.

Board Members: Jemal Powell and Steven Hastalis will be doing a presentation
on transportation boards that they sit on in their state and give some tips
about joining them where you live. 5-10 minute Q&A and it will be monitored.

Presentation by Lawrence Bock, Chairman of the company, Aira, that uses
smart glasses (like Google Glass) to provide personalized assistance to
blind users from a network of trained and accredited Agents. (Yes, Larry is
Blind)

5-10 minute presentation, 5-10 minute Q&A - this will be monitored

Opened Floor to Q&A, we will take a motion to end the meeting for 2015, but
can  stay in the room for more discussion should anyone like to do so, and
if there is no other meeting behind us.

Anything that is said monitored, means time only, we have a big agenda.

Thank you all

Sincerely,

Cheryl Echevarria, President

National Federation of the Blind's Travel and Tourism Division

A proud division of the 

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http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/travelandtourism_nfbnet.org

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