[Nfb-kzoo] Meeting Postponed
Meadows, Faith (DELEG)
meadowsf at michigan.gov
Thu Oct 8 11:45:00 UTC 2009
Ok with me.
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From: nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Tyler merren
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:29 PM
To: NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List
Subject: [Nfb-kzoo] Meeting Postponed
Hey Everyone,
This seems to be the tune that we all have stuck in our heads lately,
but the meeting for tomorrow will be postponed due to the fact that our
diligent, yet busy secretary has not yet gotten in in the paperwork to
the church, and is also sick, so that eliminates our house as a meeting
ground. We will postpone the meeting until Thursday October 22 @6:30pm.
This is still 2 weeks before convention, so we should still have time to
make some plans.
We'll get this train back on rail soon enough, stick with us folks,
Tyler Merren President of the NFB of Kalamazoo
----- Original Message -----
From: Boone, Christine (DELEG)
To: NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-kzoo] Update on the Chapter
Tyler,
Thursdays would be better for me, much better.
Also,
I did not know that we were supposed to sell commemorative coins for
the
National organization. I have asked Mary to send me 10 coins, 5 of
the
proofs and 5 of the uncirculated. This is so important, as $10 from
each coin will go directly to fund Braille teaching programs for blind
children.
I am going to approach my doctors. They are some likely buyers.
Did you guys talk about the state convention at the meeting? Well, we
can discuss in October, and perhaps we can brainstorm about a good way
to help get some of our chapter members to attend. We will have a
special presidential election at this convention...and the outcome is
of
the utmost importance to us all, and to the future of this affiliate.
I
really, truly think that we will all benefit tremendously if one of
the
candidates is elected and that we will all suffer if the other is
elected. Our votes are crucial!!!
CB
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From: nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Tyler merren
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:02 PM
To: NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List
Subject: Re: [Nfb-kzoo] Update on the Chapter
NFB Members,
Christine, that's a bummer, hopefully your on the mend and will be
feeling well soon. I'm sorry to hear about your mother in law, tell
Doug I give him my condolences. Tim, I'm sorry to hear about your
life
being so crazy, hopefully things will settle down for you guys.
Regardless of whether or not you guys are officers or otherwise, I
would
like to have you at the meetings. Leanne and I were discussing
whether
or not another day of the week would be workable. We thought that
Thursday nights at the same time would be a better situation for most
of
our members? I think for several it makes little difference, maybe
that
is an assumption, but let me know if that is incorrect. For myself
personally, Fridays are not as demanding academically, so to have a
meeting Thursday night as opposed to Monday night would be much
appreciated. Not doing it on Fridays would also allow people to go
out
of town for the weekend if they so desired and not miss out on the
meetings for that reason. If everyone could let me know their
thoughts
on this, but I think that unless I get some negative feedback on this,
we are going to go ahead and schedule the meetings for every second
Thursday of the month, starting with Thursday October 8, at 6:30.
Another issue that needs to be addressed is notice of absence. I'm
not
picking on anyone here, please note that, because I've been guilty of
the same, but I want to stress at this point how important it is to
have
an early notice if one is not going to make the meeting. One thing is
that for Leanne and I, we have to schedule a babysitter, so in a
sense,
we have a financial investment into each meeting. Another reason is
that we have a potential member who will be attending meetings from
Hopkins, which is about a 40 minute drive north of Kalamazoo, and it
would be a shame for that person to come to our meeting and find
themselves the only ones there. Finally, all of us have been in a
situation, perhaps with this chapter even, where attendants have not
been present and your time is "wasted". This is no fun and
frustrating
for those who attend. This past meeting was worth the time for Leanne
and I because we had a lot of fun with those who attended and ate some
good pizza, however, we spent way more on pizza than was necessary for
our family and those who attended, and though the pizza was consumed
overtime, it would've been great to have had a better idea of the
numbers attending..
Our future meetings, I am hoping, will have a few extra qualities,
such
as being more fun/exciting, having more people, and overall being a
little more relaxed yet responsible. We all owe some of our current
lifestyle to some of the doings of the NFB, so it seems fair to me
that
we put in the time to pay it forward.
Your thoughts please, and take care,
Tyler Merren
President of the NFB of Kalamazoo
----- Original Message -----
From: Timothy Paulding
To: 'NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List'
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-kzoo] Update on the Chapter
Tyler,
I am so sorry that I did not let you know that Jackie and I would
not
be
present at the chapter meeting. Things have been so super crazy with
our
lives over the past month. Both Jackie and I are in grad school and
working
part time. I tried to email you Monday, but I don't think I had the
right
email address. I was in class and couldn't look up your address so
tried to
do it from memory. Again, it was very flakey that we didn't even
let
anyone
know that we would be there and I am sorry for that.
It looks like this semester, Jackie and I will not be able to make
it
to any
chapter meetings as we both have class on Monday evenings (the same
class).
I'm not sure what the group wants to do about this as I am the
treasurer and
Jackie is the vp and attendance of both of these important officers
at
meetings is pretty important. Please let me know your thoughts on
this
and
we can discuss before elections.
Talk to you soon, tyler and thanks for all your hard work with the
chapter.
I love your ideas and enthusiasm.
_____________________
Timothy J. Paulding
217 Paisley Ct.
Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Ph: 269-598-7696
tjpaulding at gmail.com
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On
Behalf Of Tyler merren
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:38 PM
To: NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List
Subject: [Nfb-kzoo] Update on the Chapter
Fellow NFB Members,
We had our last meeting on Monday September 14 at Leanne and I's
house. We
had pizza and enjoyed some good conversation, so below is a quick
update as
to the conversations and the direction we are looking for the next
year. We
just missed quarem, so no official minutes were taken, but here is
the
jest
of the meeting.
The meeting began around 6:30, at which time we ate pizza and began
our
discussion. Those present were Tyler Merren (current president),
Leanne
Merren (current secretary), Jason Meddaugh (current member), Matthew
McCubbin (current member), and Mike Torrez. No membership fees were
collected at this meeting.
Jason Meddaugh indicated that his pet project of working with the
Kalamazoo
Metro Transit to have them purchase an audible announcement system
for
stops
is looking hopeful, as they are about to purchase a GPS system for
the
buses. He indicated that he will be working with them and updating
the
chapter.
Jason also brought up the fact that the second millage vote will be
happening this fall, and that it may be another situation where
their
will
have to be some phone work done to help the millage pass, though he
sounded
hopeful that it wouldn't be as much of a challenge with this
millage,
the
big concern would be more with the understanding that this millage
would
bring Kalamazoo back to the same point, and wouldn't be another
increase.
I emailed Kevin King, our contact from the library, to check on how
the
library project is progressing. He indicated that due to some
budgeting
issues that the actual purchasing of the equipment would have to be
pushed
back to January 2010 approximately. We are keeping in contact.
I spoke with the group about the direction that I want the chapter
to
look
this coming year. One thing that I want to focus on is building a
steady
membership. I feel that the one thing that will help out with this
is
to
make the meetings a little more fun and enjoyable. I don't think
the
meetings have been bad, but maybe just a little too serious?
Perhaps
some
feedback on this thought would be good. We tried this out by
playing
some
games at the end of the meeting, and I think it was a lot of fun.
Any
ideas
would be welcome.
Elections will be held at our next meeting Monday October 12. I
will
update
the group as to the location of the meeting. Put it on your
calendars
and
we'll see you there. In the mean time ideas would be appreciated as
to how
we can improve attendance at the meetings and increase membership.
Also, if
you know that you will not be present at the meeting, a notice would
be very
much appreciated, however advanced it can be is also good.
Thanks,
Tyler Merren
President of the NFB of kalamazoo
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