CCRID Leadership Meeting Minutes

March 8, 2009

Board Members Present: Nikki Wolfe (President), Pam Warkentin (Vice-President), Suzanne Conway (Treasurer), and Christy West (Secretary)

Committee Chairs Present: Renee, Shannon, Jen, and Rosemary

 

  1. Called to Order by Nikki Wolfe at 2:06pm
  2. Approval of Agenda Items—approved by consent
  3. Approval of Minutes from February 8th meeting—approved by consent
  4. Board Reports
    1. Treasurer

                                                              i.      We have about $9,400.00 in the account. We deposited about $1,300 from the workshop and the cash box has about $60.00.

                                                            ii.      I will mail the check to Bob Hand for workshop reimbursement.

    1. President

                                                              i.      The 2 awards and nomination packets for National Conference were completed.

    1. Vice-President--none
    2. Secretary’s Report

                                                              i.      The 2 awards and nominations packets were mailed off and date stamped prior to the deadline.

    1. MAL—North—none; South—none
  1. Committee Reports
    1. Membership

                                                              i.      We currently have 94 members

                                                            ii.      Kathy researched the cost of card-printing machines. To purchase machine and supplies is about $3,000.00 from the Frank Wilbur Company. We can have the cards printed for us at a cost of $1.50-5.00 per card –it was a unanimous decision to no longer pursue the purchase of a card-printing machine.

                                                          iii.      The interpreter icon on the website can be used on the printing of membership cards. The current icon can be used if approval is received by RID and the copyright symbol is placed with it.

                                                          iv.      There has been a lot of positive feedback from interns regarding the Ethics workshop presented by Chantel Cox. This could possibly be used as the mini workshop for this month.

    1. PDC

                                                              i.      Fingerspelling with Debbie Petersen

1.      Rosemary is struggling to receive replies to her emails in a timely manner. She will send another email with a deadline for response.

2.      Rosemary will reserve another location since DHHSC is not available.

3.      Shannon will email a save the date type of announcement for the fingerspelling workshop

4.      Amy will interpret for the workshop. CCRID leadership team members will makeup the team for the workshop.

                                                            ii.      Mini Workshop

1.      Chantel for Ethics-- Pam and Nikki will contact her regarding presenting this workshop for CCRID.

                                                          iii.      Mentoring/ “Terp Time”

1.      Feb. 28th--We discussed voicing in various settings. About 12 members attended and the feedback regarding the mentoring session was positive.

2.      Slang—April 25th—There is a Pepnet resource for signing idioms

                                                          iv.      Fall Ideas

1.      Mini: Pam and Amy--Conceptual accuracy, Slang—Deaf panel of varying ages

2.      All Day workshops: The Language Door—2 day medical workshop and Role Shifting. Presenters: Rico Peterson, Cindy Farnham, Bob Paul, Todd A.

                                                            v.      PDC is establishing a policy of sending a call for proposals from presenters

    1. Publications

                                                              i.      I have received the article from Nikki.

                                                            ii.      The feature article will focus on ASL being recognized as a foreign language at the university level. Kristen Akina will write the article based on her recent experience.

    1. Fund Raising—none
    2. Hospitality— send condolence card to Mark Harvey.
  1. Unfinished Business
    1. Regonline.com--- Renee contacted them

                                                              i.      Renee e-mailed several questions and is waiting to hear back from the company

    1. Storage facility—

                                                              i.      Due to the costs presented during the last meeting, it was a unanimous decision to forgo the idea of a temperature controlled storage facility.

                                                            ii.      Rosemary discussed the idea of helping DHHSC build a TUFF shed for storage at their facility.

    1. Establish an archive of the newsletter and minutes for the website. [MSP]
    2. Contract with Meika for an all day workshop/training to make changes, add information, and run the website. [MSP]
  1. Announcements
    1. March 23 FSU Deaf Panel 6pm at the Satellite Student Union (SSU)
    2. Fresno Deaf Church presents the movie and dinner—Fri. night proceeds are given to Bridge to Empowerment, and the proceeds of Sunday showing are for DHHSC.
  2. Adjourned at 3:14pm

 

 

Future Meetings: April 5th at Bobbi’s and May 3rd at Suzanne’s