ICRID Board Meeting November 18, 2000

Attendance
Dave Calvert
Judy Cain
Randy Nicolai
Lynn Frye
Catherine Huston
Bertha Brown
Antonette Meszaros
Nancy Young

Meeting was opened at approximately 11:15am.

Dave clarified that there was no formal agenda. 

* There was a question on the floor regarding a board
member's current status. Is this person still serving
on the board or not? The issue will be put on the
agenda for the January meeting. It will be under New
Business- "Role Clarification."  The member in
question will be invited to attend the meeting for a
face-to-face discussion.
* Annual Meeting
 Dave asked board-"If you could change one thing about the AM, what would it be?"
- Judy-Reserve location (Hotel) ASAP
-Lynn-Listen to board members, get their input
Judy is the chair of next year's AM. The focus right now is finding a location. Dave accepted responsibility for getting hotel arrangements set up.
Board decided on a deadline for getting this set up by Feb 2001. Discussion of possible presenters and/or topics for workshops:  Religious interpreting, interpreting for clients with MLS.
 Presenters who will be contacted: Anna Witter-Merrithew, Dr. Melanie Metzger, Earl Fleetwood, etc.
* Discussed clarification of the start of new Board members' terms.
*Starting in January, there will be committee meeting reports at every board meeting.  Due to the holidays, there will be no board meetings in December and July. However, this has been modified for 2001 because of the RID convention in August. There WILL be a board meeting in July instead of August.
*Discussion about increasing attendance at the AM. 
*Dave is trying to work more closely with the other Presidents in the region and increase communication with them.
 *Emails--- Please, when sending emails, change the subject line to reflect the point of the message. Copy the message, then Reply All.  All Board members and student reps should receive ICRID business emails. Antonette suggested to limit email discussions on a specific topic to 2 weeks from the date the first email was posted. If it hasn't been resolved to the board's satisfaction in 2 weeks, put it on the next
meeting's agenda, and discuss it face-to-face.  Board expressed agreement with suggestion.
 *Board Meetings for 2001. We would like to get out to the membership more to hear what they have to say, and to show them what happens during a board meeting. Tentative travel schedule:
January 20   ISD                                     
February 17  Bethel College                          
March 17  IUPUI/VU at IUPUI                          
April 21  Purdue University                          
May 19  Indiana University-Bloomington               
June 16  Jeffersonville                              
July 21   Fort Wayne               
August  No Meeting- RID convention

September 15  Evansville

October 20   ISD

November  Annual Meeting

December  no meeting

These dates are tentative. If dates are not good for the places we are planning to go to, the dates may change. How will we inform the membership that the meetings
are moving?  Post in the INSIGHTS, on the website, and send info to the area we are visiting. The meetings are still open to ALL members, and will be listed as
such, but the goal is to encourage members in that area to attend that board meeting.  The board felt that including  Purdue and IU in the rotation was a
good way to show them more about the interpreting
profession and what ICRID does.
 *Randy-- Would like help to figure out accounting Categories and Classifications.
 *Lynn- Asked Randy for ASR budget-  $2805.00
 *Discussion of mode of communication during ICRID Board meetings.
  -Easier for secretary to take minutes.
 - Meetings are open to public for observation.
 - Student reps need interpreter to understand meeting if done in ASL.
 -We will discuss with Bob for his input.
It was suggested that the person speaking clarify if they will be using ASL or English.
 * Discussion of protocol during ICRID Board meetings.
 *Discussion of requests submitted from Web Master.
 *Randy passed out summary reports and reviewed briefly. September and October's reports were accepted.  We are still waiting for the money from
Waubonsee. Regarding BAA status, we are still waiting to be incorporated with State of Indiana.
 *Think about possibly increasing dues next year. We'll discuss again later.

Meeting adjourned 2:45pm.
                                                     

 Respectfully submitted by Antonette Meszaros,

Secretary