[Nfb-kzoo] Update on the Chapter
Tyler and Leanne Merren
tmerren at charter.net
Mon Sep 28 20:00:32 UTC 2009
Hi,
Faith's message is the only response I've seen, and that was for changing it
to Thursday. Hopefully I didn't miss any. I need to get this paperwork
into the church if we're going to be able to meet there, so I'm going to go
ahead and put it in tomorrow. So if you have any thoughts please let us
know.
I was asked a few days ago whether we will do the pizza party for the
goalball athletes again this year, and I said that we hadn't discussed it
yet but that I thought we were planning on it. So we'll need to talk about
that, and probably work on raising some money for our chapter. Since state
convention is coming up, we may want to do a raffle or something?
I am really excited about the things we did last year, and I'm looking
forward to some more great projects this year!
Leanne
Secretary, Kalamazoo Chapter
----- Original Message -----
From: "Meadows, Faith (DELEG)" <meadowsf at michigan.gov>
To: "NFB of Kalamazoo Michigan List" <nfb-kzoo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-kzoo] Update on the Chapter
>I really think that Thursday would be a much better day for me to make
> the meetings. FM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-kzoo-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> 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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