Serving the blind and low vision population of South Central Kentucky
A chapter of the Kentucky Council of the Blind
SCKCB Minutes for March 3, 2009.
The meeting started at approximately 7:10 p.m. at the Alive Center in Bowling Green, KY. The members present were Ron and Palma Milliman, Max and Sue Robinson, Sam Moore, Sylvia Kersenbaum and via cell phone connections were David Welch, Nicole Punyum, and Faith Manion.
President Milliman asked for the approval of the minutes of our previous meeting, which had been posted on the SCKCB list. Sue Robinson moved to approve the minutes and Sylvia Kersenbaum seconded the motion. The minutes were approved unanimously. Max Robinson gave the treasurer's report. We currently have an amount of $1,996.74 in our General Fund and $1,688.07 in our grant fund, making a total amount of liquid cash on hand in our bank account of $3,684.81. Sylvia Kersenbaum moved to approve the report as given, and Sam Moore seconded the motion. The motion passed.
Old Business:
Ron Milliman asked Sue Robinson to show everyone the copy of our brand new SCKCB Brochure in finished form. Sue described the layout and passed the brochure around for everyone to see it. Sue and Ron are in the process of working on a cover letter to accompany the new brochures that are going to be mailed out to all of the eye doctors in the Bowling Green area as a part of our public education campaign.
David Welch gave a report on the concert fundraiser. Both David and Ron worked very hard on trying to locate a venue for the concert, but were not able to come up with a suitable location given all of the requirements that were necessary to secure an adequate site for the concert. The Classic Times band is very interested and willing to work with us, when we come up with a venue. Hopefully, a venue can be secured and the concert fundraiser will take place next fall.
Sue Robinson gave an update on our paid membership. We currently have twenty one paid members.
An election to fill the vacancy of Vice President was held. Sue Robinson nominated Bill Clouse. Sylvia Kersenbaum seconded the nomination. There were no other nominations from the floor. Bill was elected by acclamation.
New Business:
Ron announced there were several openings to be filled on the McDowell Advisory Board and asked if any of our members were interested in serving on that board. Since Max Robinson has been serving on the McDowell Center Board, Ron asked him to give a report on what was involved as a McDowell Center Board member. The Board meets four times a year, usually by conference call.
The Braille and Large Print Restaurant Menu project was discussed. A motion was made by Sylvia to pursue the restaurant menu project and seconded by David Welch. After considerable discussion, the motion to launch the restaurant Braille menu fundraiser project was tabled by a friendly amendment made by Sue Robinson and seconded by Max, which passed unanimously. Sue felt that we should wait to launch that project when we have more members at our meeting to discuss it further and get more members involved and committed to the project.
With the objective of recommending some activities that the group could do for fun, the subject of an audio described movie night was brought up, but dropped for lack of interest. Also, the "All in Play" website was described by Ron and David. It was described as a website at www.allinplay.com which has several fully-blind accessible games on it, including Texas Hold 'Em, Crazy Eights, Draw Poker, among others. It was suggested that we could possibly have an "All in Play Texas Hold'em" night or event for fun, but again, no interest was shown by our members present.
Our next meeting will be on April 7, 2009.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:14 p.m.
Respectfully submitted, Palma Milliman, Secretary