ICRID Board Meeting

                                                                        July 7, 2003

 

Attendance

 

Dave Calvert             Antonette Needham

Judy Cain                  Carrie Westhoelter

Randy Nicolai           Nancy Young

 

Dave Calvert called the meeting to order at 5:30 pm.

 

Minutes

 

June minutes were discussed and changes made. Nancy Young made a motion to accept the June minutes as corrected. Carrie Westhoelter seconded. Called to vote. Passed.

 

June Treasurer’s Report (via email)

 

Beginning Balance: $ 16,257.27

Income: $ 760.00

Expenditures: $ 1222.56

Ending Balance: $ 15,794.71

 

Committee Reports

 

Awards and Scholarships

 

Member of the Year nominees thus far are: Judy Cain, Janna Lippie, and Carrie Westhoelter.

 

Bylaws

No Report

 

ASR

No Report

 

Fundraising

Fundraising ongoing for both Annual Meeting and Region III conference.

 

Grievance

No Report

 

CMP/PDC

No Report

 

Newsletter

Excellent job on newsletter for July/August. Arrived to membership on time.

 

Membership Report (via email)

 

As of 7/9/03 ICRID has 4 organizational members and 177 individual 
members.  Randy Nicolai recently sent out 9 letters to those members whose memberships had lapsed as of March 2003.

 

IAD Report

IAD will be hosting a fundraiser for the Miss Deaf Indiana Pageant. There will be a euchre tournament on September 27, 2003, at the Indianapolis Deaf Club. More info to come.

 

Ways and Means

No Report

 

Annual Meeting

Flyer is almost ready. It will be printed out in time for the RID conference at the end of this month.

The Board has had contact with the French Lick Resort and Spa. We are currently working on the menu details. The facility is very nice.

Meeting rooms have been arranged. The Resort is wheelchair accessible. There is a bowling alley on site, as well as a heated pool.

All presenters have been confirmed. They are: Ari-Asha Castalia, Kathy Roche, Richard Laurion, Paula Gajewski-Mickelson, Cheryl Moose, Edna Johnston, and Greg Gantt.

Carrie Westhoelter has sent out 80 letters for exhibitors/donations/sponsors for the annual conference.

 

Old Business

Dave Calvert and Carrie Westhoelter will purchase big-ticket silent auction items for the RID National Conference in August.

Dalonda Young will be designing a Website for Region III conference.

Randy Nicolai will bring checks to Chicago to cover the expense of transporting all the silent auction items.

Judy Cain and Dave Calvert are working on the Region III promo video and PowerPoint for the Region III Caucus at the RID Conference in August.

Dave Calvert has contacted Lynne Eighinger to assist in locating Paul Keil for our video from the 2000 AM.

 

 

Carrie Westhoelter is finishing the ICRID brochure. She will send it via email attachment to the board for approval this week. We would like to have them printed and ready to take to Chicago.

 

New Business

Susan Reppart-Dorando has replaced the person working as the Silent Auction Co-Chair (for Chicago) with Dave Calvert. The previous co-chair has stepped down.

 

Mary Riccius sent Randy Nicolai an application for Kinko’s corporate cards. Randy Nicolai is waiting for a state certification showing tax-exempt status to process that application. Discussion regarding who on board will receive the cards. It was decided to ask Kinko’s if names could be added/deleted on application when board members change.

 

Discussion of topic at recent Region III President’s meeting: How are we to proactively welcome NAD members into RID on all levels? (Question from Bruce King) Cheryl Moose would like the various boards to brainstorm possible ideas for transition of these new members. Ideas will be presented and discussed at the RID conference in Chicago.

One idea is to offer 10% discount on Annual Conference registration for NAD members who join ICRID. Will discuss more at a later date.

 

Meeting adjourned at 7:00pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Antonette Needham, Secretary