CCRID Leadership Meeting Agenda

October 4, 2009

Attendees: Nicole, Bobbi, Kaitlin, Pam, Shannon, Diane, Erin, Amanda, Gloria, Lisa, Christy, Renee, Kathy

I. Call to Order: 2:05.

II. Approval of Agenda Items: approved

III. Approval of Minutes from September meeting: approved by consent.

IV. Board Reports:

a. President: Will start emailing membership via Renee the President’s report

i. Tried to bring up the conference concerns at the Presidents meeting and was asked to submit it in writing.

ii. Renee will scan Christy’s comments and send it out in an email for comments.

b. Vice-President: Thank you for your hard work on the workshop

c. Treasurer:

i. $11,000 bank balance.

ii. We need to start tracking the money better to see what our income and expenses are.

iii. Pass around a new form for the reimbursement request.

d. Secretary: None

V. Committee Reports:

a. Fundraising

i. Applied for a grant from Wal-Mart and Union Bank, guarantee and another company as well.

ii. We had the hotel donated for the presenter for our last workshop

iii. Had a Costco card for food donations

iv. Had a market donate all of our snacks. Donated at the last minute.

v. We should sell the T-shirts at every meeting.

vi. We should ask Rosemary to do a fundraising performance.

b. Hospitality:

i. Did we get the cards from Jen? Not sure, Bobbi will ask Jen.

c. Membership:

i. Kickoff: 2 new members, 10 attendees for dinner, and 13 attendees for the workshop.

ii. Oct 2: 2 new people, 22 attended

iii. Oct 3: 1 new member, 27 people showed up

iv. 55 current members

d. Publications

i. All good. Give Shannon the dates by Nov.

ii. Will have an article about the upcoming regional conference.

iii. Does anyone want to volunteer to do an article about the regional conference June 16-20?

iv. Dave Smith could write an article about the ‘designated interpreter’ topic.

e. Website

i. Color change to the website. Fall colors. Christy will update Suzanne’s bio.

f. PDC

i. Not heard back from David Evans. Have his phone number now and will try to contact him by phone.

ii. Austin Andrews, NIC: Has a lot of information for Bobbi. He is willing to do workshops and has different options. Sat/Sun all day, Fri/Sat, Sat only for 6 hrs. Willing to do his Deaf Ninja performance Sat night.

1. We should look into getting a grant from Kaiser and Sorenson to cover the cost of the fees.

2. $750 for Sat + $300 for performance

3. We should save this for the fall of next year so we can use the ‘Deaf Ninja’ for the Kickoff event.

iii. We should start advertising farther in advance so people who work at Sorenson can ‘save the date’ before they bid for schedules

iv. We should think about sending out postcards to also help advertising instead of emailing and website for everything.

v. Suggestion: doing a sex topic mini workshop that Suzanne and Christy would present.

vi. Suggestion: SEE workshop, teaming workshop

vii. Suggestion: Have Rosemary present a workshop about interpreting songs.

viii. Suggestion: Classifiers workshop by a Deaf presenter.

ix. Terp Time: “Signs of the Season”.

VI. Unfinished Business

a. storage cabinet at DHHSC

i. Kathy measured space and has researched cabinets.

ii. $259 per cabinet. We should have 2.

iii. Nikki motions that Kathy purchase 1-2 cabinets to store at DHHSC. 2^nd. Approved.

VII. New Business

a. Holiday dinner

i. Pam will think about a few places and call them to see if we can reserve a room.

VIII. Announcements from the Deaf and Interpreting Communities

a. Bobbi is walking with the Susan G. Komen for the cure and would like CCRID to sponsor her.

b. Oct 12^th: Ch 30 is doing a 5, 6, 630 newscast at the fair. Is anyone available to interpret for the audience?

Oct 9th and 10^th is DHHSC’s rummage sale. They are accepting donations this week.

IX. Adjournment adjourn the general session at 3:19

Next meeting: November 8