[Oabs] Please read, regrouping!

[Kaiti Shelton]

Hi, Lillie,

Thanks for getting a jump on the colleges in the directory!  If it is
okay with everyone, I would like to meet before the fundraising
committee meeting on Friday.  We'll shoot to meet at 7:30 just in case
we need the full half hour for logistics, but I don't anticipate
needing that full time.  In any case, we'll be done by 8:00 so the
fundraising committee can start on time.  Or, if Emily wishes, we can
finish and go right into the meeting so long as everyone on her
committee is on the phone.  If you're on fundraising committee, that
should be an insentive because it's quite likely that you'll start and
finish up committee business sooner than normal that way.  Remind
yourselves and your fellow committee members to be there or be square!

On 7/21/14, Lillie Pennington via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I forgot to ask. When are we meeting?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:53 PM, Lillie Pennington via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I also started the advertising directory and all of the colleges and
>> universities in Ohio should be there. I will start finding contacts this
>> week.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 7:36 PM, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, OABSters,
>>>
>>> Please read this entire email, because it is important.  If you have
>>> any questions at all after reading this, please don't hesitate to
>>> email me directly or on-list depending on the nature of your question.
>>> IF it is something you don't absolutely think pertains only to you,
>>> please do ask publically so that others who might have the same
>>> questions and may not be as quick to ask them can benefit as well.
>>>
>>> I understand that on Friday our meeting was very poorly attended.
>>> Many of us were traveling and at the mercy of roaming signals.  I
>>> myself was unable to call in due to poor cell phone coverage and a
>>> really bad storm that neither Sprint nor ATNT service could handle,
>>> but I hear that we only had two people show up to the meeting and
>>> after 20 minutes they left.  This is not something we can accept, and
>>> call it a month for July.  I propose that, since we have some time
>>> left in the month, that we find a half hour time slot to meet via
>>> phone, even if it is before the fundraising meeting next Friday.  We
>>> need to regroup on a couple of things I will mention below, but more
>>> importantly we need the membership in order to do that.
>>>
>>> Speaking of membership, the membership committee is struggling and has
>>> had very poor attendance at meetings for the past few months.  The
>>> brochure which was written back in January has yet to be sent out, and
>>> that is because there has been a lack of contact with agencies across
>>> Ohio.  We need to fix this.  We can not build this division without
>>> making a concerted effort to do so.  I know summer is usually the hard
>>> part of the year for us since everyone is scattered in different
>>> directions for camps, vacations, conventions, etc; but we need to pull
>>> it together.  That starts with coming to membership meetings and
>>> working to recruit more members.  Our discussion posting schedule has
>>> not worked out as we had hoped it would, so we need to draft a plan B
>>> in order to make sure there is participation from multiple members on
>>> the list.  I need to know from you all what didn't work about that,
>>> because if we need to come up with a different calendar system or a
>>> different way to remind people who agreed to help with the project to
>>> post, then we will have to do that.  However, we also need to
>>> personally exercise some autonomy, meaning that when we draft a plan B
>>> I want it to be the last plan we draft.  If we agree on a different
>>> calendar format but keep the expectation that everyone will check the
>>
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Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students
Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma