Serving the blind and low vision population of South Central Kentucky
A chapter of the Kentucky Council of the Blind
SCKCB Minutes for November 14, 2007.
President Imran called the meeting to order at 7:11 p.m. at the Alive Center in Bowling Green, KY. Members present were Nancy Imran, Sam Morris, Sylvia Kursenbaum, Max and Sue Robinson, Kim and Michael Parsley, Ron and Palma Milliman, Cody Norris, and our newest member Justine Spencer.
President, Nancy Imran informed us that our scheduled guest speaker from Community Action was unable to attend. Nancy related some information about local transportation, which had been given to her by the guest speaker. Nancy said that the person from Community Action would be willing to attend our January meeting, if we still needed, or wanted more information about local transportation.
There were no minutes from our October meeting since we did not hold a formal business meeting that month. Instead, in October, we held a technology demonstration conducted by a Freedom Scientific representative along with another gentleman who sells assistive technology from Indianapolis. They demonstrated several pieces of new technology for us.
The September minutes were read since they had not been previously read and approved. Sue Robinson made a correction to the treasury balance in the September minutes, and Max Robinson made a motion to accept the minutes as amended. Cody Norris seconded the motion, and the minutes were accepted as amended.
Next, Max Robinson gave the treasurer's report. Our current balance is $7,907.55. Cody Norris made the motion to accept the treasurer's report, and Palma Milliman seconded it. The report was accepted as read.
Ron made a motion: "if the 2008 dues are paid on or before our January meeting, they will be $8, but paid after the January meeting, they will increase to $10." Cody Norris seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.
There was a discussion about the plaques for friends of SCKCB. Because of some potential issues associated with this project, Max made the motion to table it. The motion was seconded by Palma Milliman and passed unanimously.
Nancy brought up the subject of the SCKCB brochures. Cody Norris volunteered to work on creating the brochure and bringing a sample to our Christmas party next month for review. A motion was made to have Cody create a draft of a brochure to be approved by the membership at our Christmas party. Kim Parsley seconded the motion. It was approved.
The Christmas party was discussed. Ron confirmed the date of Saturday, December 15. Kim recommended that we allocate $100, plus our $25 Wal-Mart gift card, for acquiring the food and any other needed items for our Christmas party from Wal-Mart. Ron seconded it. The motion passed.
Nancy asked us to decide on whether we would like to provide gifts for playing dirty Santa at our Christmas party, or pick an angel from the Angel Tree at the mall, or perhaps both. After considerable discussion, Cody suggested that we continue the "Dirty Santa" gift-giving among our members at our Christmas party, but rather than our taking funds from our treasury to purchase items for a child selected from the Angel Tree, that those persons who want to, can just contribute to that project at our Christmas party, and the total of those contributions could, then, be used to purchase a gift or gifts for the selected Angel Tree child. Ron, then, made a motion to accept Cody's recommendation. Justine Spencer seconded it. The motion passed.
Cody Norris suggested that we could possibly incorporate a section on "Tips and Tricks" on our SCKCB web site. Everyone thought it was an interesting idea. Kim recommended that perhaps a couple such "Tips and Tricks" could even be included on our brochure as examples of the kind of information that is available by joining our organization.
Nancy gave a brief report on the KCB State Convention, which she attended last week with Ron and Palma Milliman, Max Robinson and Justine Spencer. The other members that attended mentioned some additional observations.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:47 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Palma Milliman