Serving the blind and low vision population of South Central Kentucky
A chapter of the Kentucky Council of the Blind
SCKCB Minutes for February 20, 2008.
The meeting was started at 7:03 p.m., at the Alive Center in Bowling Green, KY. Members present were Nancy Imran, Ron and Palma Milliman, Sam Moore, Max and Sue Robinson, Cheryl and Mark Cross, and David Welch via Ron's cell phone. Ricky Beavers, a potential new blind member, and Donna Tooley, from Community Action of Southern Kentucky, introduced themselves as guests.
After everyone introduced themselves, Donna Tooley, our guest speaker from Community Action, told us all about their different transportation services, and bus schedules offered by the Community Action of Southern Kentucky. After her presentation, there was some discussion about her giving us information about some other transportation services in the area that might serve people outside of Bowling Green city limits. Also, the suggestion was made to link the Community Action's website with our SCKCB website. Everyone thought that it was a very good idea. Donna Tooley apologized for not having the bus schedules in any kind of accessible format, like Braille. Ron offered to find a source for brailing the bus schedules and submitting a proposal to Community Action to have it done. Ms. Tooley thought that was a great idea, and she indicated that some funds were available to pay for Brailed bus schedules.
After Ms Tooley's presentation, secretary, Palma Milliman, read the minutes from our previous meeting. There were a few corrections to the minutes. Thereafter, Ron Milliman made a motion to accept the minutes as amended, and Max Robinson seconded. The motion passed. This was followed by the treasurer's report. We currently have $12,166.72 in our bank account. Ron Milliman made the motion to accept the treasurer's report, and Mark Cross seconded. The motion passed.
Old Business.
Ron Milliman gave us an update on the status of the new brochure. He made us aware that a committee at the national level is working to create one, which we will be able to use as a prototype to create our own. They hope to have it finished by our next meeting date. Ron also gave a report on the progress of the SCKCB Grant Program. Sue Robinson, which is on the Grant Program Committee, read a copy of the Grant Application that she and Ron had worked on, since our last meeting. Everyone agreed that it sounded quite good. The question came up of how to handle new donations, since Ron Milliman and Max Robinson had agreed to invest $11,000 or $11,500 into a CD, which would still leave the organization with sufficient funds to maintain our normal projects and operations. The suggestion was made by Ron to set one half of all new monies aside for our grant program in an effort to get it up and operational for our members even faster. It was suggested by Nancy, and decided by the members in attendance, that in order to involve more of our members in the decision, we would attempt to discuss the issue on our SCKCB e-mail list and if possible, even vote on it. Ron was given the responsibility to handle this latter task.
Ron also mentioned that he had spoken to Barbara Miller, who is with the Office for the Blind, about becoming the third member of our Grant Program Committee, and she agreed to serve in that capacity and to help us.
New Business.
Ron Milliman and Nancy Imran gave a report on their trip to Washington D.C. for the affiliate President's meeting. Ron said that it was the best meeting of that type that he had ever attended. Nancy said that she enjoyed the legislative meetings. They were interesting and very educational. The issued discussed were Hybrid Cars, Web Accessibility, and caption accessibility.
Other Business.
Ricky Beavers mentioned that he had just entered into an new business venture with World Adventures, and his web site address is: rickybeavers.worldventure.com.
Our next meeting will be on March 19, and Gay Panel, Independent Living Specialist will be our guest speaker.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:41 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Palma Milliman, Secretary