Serving the blind and low vision population of South Central Kentucky
A chapter of the Kentucky Council of the Blind

SCKCB Minutes of March 11, 2004 Meeting

The meeting was started at approximately 7:04 pm at the Bowling Green Library. Members present were: Ron & Palma Milliman, Max and Sue Robinson and Lisa Newton.

The meeting began with our guest speaker, Mr. Omar Rogers from the Lions Club. He spoke about the origin/history of the Lions Club, and told us that their main purpose is to provide assistance of all sorts to blind and sight impaired individuals who cannot afford it on their own. Following Mr. Roger's presentation, we engaged in a Q & A session, which was most informative. Mr. Rogers expressed interest in the Lions Club possibly funding a Talking Newspaper Service based here in Bowling Green. He said he would discuss the project with other key Lions club members and get back to us on it.

Next, Max and Sue played the Public Service Announcements that they had worked on since our last meeting and that were based on the initial PSA script written by Lisa Newton. Everyone agreed that they sounded extremely professional. Ron suggested that we think about offering this service, e.g. a set of four PSA's for $100 or so, to other affiliates as a fund raiser for our chapter. He also suggested that we advertise this service on our web site. Max, Sue and Lisa all agreed to donate their expert talents and copyrights to us for this purpose. Max and Sue will receive a portion of any funds raised with this project (E.g. 50%), since they will be the ones actually recording the PSA's, and the other portion would go to the SCKCB chapter.

Ron also announced that he was successful in acquiring our URL: SCKCB.org toward the objective of developing our own SCKCB web site. President Milliman also mentioned that Kim and Mike Parsley were working on our logo, letterheads and business cards.

President Milliman brought up the subject of the TV program, which we are suppose to tape for airing in August. After some discussion, it was quite evident that we did not have sufficient information about this project to be able to plan it, and we all agreed that we need to meet again in April to discuss this further, if we are serious about this project. Our meeting will be April 8th. Lisa Newton suggested that perhaps we should consider doing the show "Main Street" with Barbara Deebs instead of trying to produce it ourselves. Since we all thought that it was an excellent idea, Lisa agreed to talk to Barbara about it and report back to us.

In lieu of the secretary not being present, Palma Milliman read the minutes of the previous meeting. The treasurer, Lisa Newton, reported that we have a total of $124.00 in our bank account less some charges for SCKCB checks that were ordered. A check for $125.00 was presented to the SCKCB group and given to the treasurer for deposit by President Milliman, representing the proceeds from a settlement with the NFBK over two web sites that were sold to NFBK by Dr. Milliman, NFBK's previous Web Master.

The meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:30 pm.

Respectfully submitted, Palma Milliman