ICRID Board Meeting Minutes

September 10, 2005

 

Welcome & Introductions – Attendance ---> Judy Cain, Nancy Young, Randy Nicolai, Christine Krock, Tony Myers, Tracey Stack, Kathy Baumann Lindy Hedges.  Not In Attendance:  Laura Leffler, Ayanna Clayton, Vera Masters, Dave Calvert, Beatrice Pfaff, Erin Steen. Interpreters:  Carol Gregg, Colleen Olson

 

Judy called the meeting to order at 11:06. (No quorum)

A quick round of introductions was made of the board members present.

 

Minutes – (August)

Tony Myers noted correction needed to be made to the sub points of New Business 1.

Myron Yoder had questions about the relationship of Koda and ICRID.

Randy looked for clarification of Old Business 9, PPMs.

 

Treasurer’s Report – (August) – Not available.

The annual conference is separate from ICRID and IAD accounts.

 

Motions –

M05.09.01 – Christine Krock makes a motion “to sponsor a Goshen College workshop on March 18, 2006”.  Nancy Young seconded.

 

M05.09.02 – Christine Krock makes a motion that “ICRID sponsor the 2006 Region III/forum in the amount of $750”. Tony Myers seconded.  (050902 FA 1&2 – I make a motion ICRID sponsor the 2006 Region III state forum in the amount of $800 to be paid from the FY2006 budget.)

 

M05.09.03 – Laura Leffler makes a motion via email “to accept the August minutes as corrected”.  Vera Masters seconded the motion.  Motion passed.

 

Reports – Committee and others

1.  Annual Conference – Dave Calvert & Nancy Young, chairs

a.       Annual meeting (elections) – Friday morning 8:00 – 11:00. All officers and 2 member-at-large positions up for election. Laura will not seek a new term as Secretary.

b.       RID National Board face-to-face meeting

c.       At the meeting on Saturday my plan is to provide you with a more in-depth report on what is occurring with the annual conference.

d.       We are about a month away from the conference and things are coming together nicely.

e.       Support staff -- please refer anyone who has expressed interest in being a support staff to me. Looking for student support staff. Good idea to assign 2 to the National Board (JC)

f.        Silent auction – needs lots of work, need help getting auction items, awaiting news from Wal-mart.

g.       Hospitality suite -- NEED HELP!!!

h.       Registrations to date (9-10-05) – 27 ICRID, 36 IAD

i.         Our October board meeting will occur on October 1st, in Richmond at the Holiday Inn. That will give us an opportunity to tour the hotel and wrap up any last minute details.

j.        Name badge holders shipping now.

k.       EIC, IIC and RID CEU actions in process.

l.         Fundraising has brought in at least $12,000.

m.     Dalonda and Mary have taken over program book activities.

n.       3 contestants planned for Miss Deaf Indiana. A plan B is in place should this fall through.

o.       Interpreting – Have had change outs and Clay Nettles is looking for interpreters for the RID National Board face-to-face meeting.

 

  1. ASR – no report

 

  1. Awards & Scholarships – Dave Calvert, chair

a.       Member of the year – Voting in process, Carrie Westhoelter and Vera Masters. Voting closes September 30th   Send votes to terp06@aol.com

b.       ICRID Board awards – will be finalized in executive session without visitors present.

c.       Marvin Marshall Scholarship – One confirmed candidate.

 

  1. Bylaws – Antonette Needham, chair; Ayanna Clayton, board liaison

a.       no report

 

  1. DHHS Liaison report – Dave Calvert, board liaison –

a.        New Secretary has been hired - Lisa Norwood.

 

  1. Fundraising – Dave Calvert, chair

a.       grants are still out there waiting to be awarded or not

 

  1. IAD – Beatrice Pfaff, board liaison –

a.       All officers are up for election,

b.       Donald Tinsley does not intend to run for reelection as president.

 

  1. ICRID Historical –

a.       Needing someone to spearhead the collection and compilation of ICRID’s history.

 

  1. Membership – Randy Nicolai

a.       Randy is chair of membership as of September 9th, 2005

b.       __170____ individual, ___6_ Organizational, __33__ lapsed as of October 2004,  __16__  lapsed as of March 2005

c.       Two membership cycles, March and October

 

  1.  Newsletter – Nancy Young, chair

a.       Mary's computer crashed a couple of weeks ago but luckily Judy saved the day and was able to e-mail Mary an old format of the newsletter, which enabled Mary to continue working on pulling the newsletter together.

b.       This past weekend Judy, Dave, & I proofed the newsletter and provided Mary with corrections. She anticipates getting it back from Kinko's tomorrow (Friday 9/9) and will have a group of students assist with collating, folding, labeling, & stamping. If all goes well, it will be mailed over the weekend and should reach members the beginning of next week.

c.       The majority of this newsletter is devoted to conference information. Once you have received your copy if you have any comments or suggestions please let me know.                                                      Judy said it is wonderful having Goshen reports. Erin said to start anticipating Bethel reports.

 

  1.  PDC – Carrie Westhoelter, chair; ______ board liaison

a.       Committee has been busy with Educational Conference and now State Conference.

 

  1.  Satellite reports –

a.       South Bend – (Christine) -- Workshop on October 22 with Elizabeth Beldon, RSC, CDI.  The workshop will be, "Honing your fingerspelling & Number Skills".  Time? -- 9am-4pm. Space is limited to 40 participants.  Cost? -- $30.00.  Where? -- Bethel College - Academic Center - room 342.  Earn .6 CEUs (pending). 

b.       Fort Wayne – Christine reported for Ayanna -- Things have been hot.  DeafLink received a number of negative comments at the DHHS meeting in FW.  ADA training went well.

c.       Evansville – (    ) – no report

 

  1.  Super Site report – Dave Calvert, board liaison –

a.       Southport High School – four tests are scheduled for Sept. 

b.       Southport has received the DVDs for the NIC, but they are not ready to be used at this date.

 

  1.  Ways & Means – Randy Nicolai, board liaison

a. (referred to committee: Pay Pal for ability to pay for membership on line (Robert Frew) [investigating]

 

  1. Website – Nancy Young, chair

a.       Dalonda Young is continuing to update the website as necessary. Although right now her hands are full with writing grants and working on the program book for the fall conference. As conference information has become available she has posted it on the website.

b.       Tracy commented that the website is much more colorful and enjoyable.

 

OLD Business

1.  Office space –  Judy has been unable to contact Carol Narens, realtor, to see if she has made any no-cost headway.

 

  1. Request for sponsorship – Goshen College    

a.       A request was made to sponsor a workshop on Sat March 18 by Myron Yoder. The amount sought is $500. 

b.       Goshen’s tradition is to have different presenters and interpreters from out of the area come in to work the events.  The out-of-area interpreters have a secondary function of giving the interpreting students a valuable opportunity to interact with them to ask questions of the planning and adjustments made during the event by the interpreters. 

c.       Motion -- M05.09.01.  Christine Krock makes a motion “to sponsor a Goshen College workshop on March 18, 2006”.  Nancy Young seconded. 

·         Discussion was made on the possibility of having discounts made available for ICRID members and the way of becoming a member advertised on the flyer and promotional literature. 

·         Judy recommended raising the registration fee for this workshop in light of the caliber of the presenter, Tom Humphries.

  1. (Unfinished business) – Position paper (sent to Kathy Roche & Barb Cain)

a.       This is something that has been on the Old Business part of the agenda for……EVER. 

b.       IT is to address ICRID’s viewpoint on educational interpreting in the state of Indiana.  The goal is to have a near final draft by the State Conference. 

c.       This will be patterned after documents already standing in the state and the country within interpreting or interpreting-related entities. 

d.       This document will be used by schools.

e.       Myron stated that Goshen is applying to be an EIPA entity and requests that ICRID not address this issue until Goshen hears if it is approved as a site for this.

  1. Request to sponsor Bethel College ITP –

a.       Judy has not received any new information on this. 

b.       Holly Kalling no longer teaches at Bethel College so communication will now be directed to Elizabeth Beldon.

  1. Koda Kids –

a.       Need to establish the conditions of deposit. 

b.       Tony will move on this with the Ways and Means Committee.

  1. profit from Bethel workshops – SLICES has already given Bethel the grant money regardless of the profit made. 

 

NEW Business:

  1. Satellite arrangements –

a.       Maybe it is a good idea to redesign the satellite designations to regions as opposed to the current city-based system.

  1. Request to sponsor the Region III Conference lunch – from Cassie Manuel, Co-chair 2006 Conference.

a.       The planning committee is planning to have affiliate chapter forums at the Region III Conference in true Wisconsin tailgating tradition. 

b.       The request is that each affiliate chapter donates $500 - $800 to sponsor that portion of the conference. 

c.       The motion could be worded in a way that would dictate how monies are used and moved as well as possibly returned if monies are left over.

d.       M05.09.02 – Christine Krock makes a motion that “ICRID sponsor the 2006 Region III/forum in the amount of $750”. Tony Myers seconded.  (050902 FA 1&2 – I make a motion ICRID sponsor the 2006 Region III state forum in the amount of $800 to be paid from the FY2006 budget.)

    bullet Friendly amendment 1 to motion 050901 – add “to be paid from the FY2006 budget.  FA2 750 becomes 800.

 

Announcements:

  1. Goshen College news –

a.       Every first Sunday of each month, there is a Community Deaf Worship Service at 11am in the Newcomer Building Chapel Room. *CANCELED*

b.       September 10, 2005 ICRID Board Meeting at Goshen College in Administration Building Conference Room #29

c.       October 20, 2005  6-9pm ASL Coffeehouse with presenters Welmer & Esther Merrick and Bill Storm at The Crossings Cafe in Goshen, IN

d.       November 5, 2005 9am-4pm Workshop with Brenda Nicodemus and Sandra Sandoval presenting The Mental Lexicon: Building Your Bilingual Vocabulary *CANCELED Due conflict with Ananbaptist Deaf Ministries Camp scheduled for November 5-6*

e.       November 15, 2005 7pm-9pm Sprint VRS Meet and Greet Goshen College Administration Building Room #35 with Andy Leffler -- Ben Hall will be on the Goshen campus during the Sprint VRS Meet-and-Greet

f.        November 19, 2005 9am-4pm Feed Your Eyes, Mind, and Spirit #9 *CANCELED*

g.       March 18, 9:00am-4:00pm workshop with Linda Williams *CANCELED DUE TO SCHEDULE CONFLICT*

h.       March 23, 2006 6-9pm ASL Coffeehouse with presenter Andy Leffler at The Crossings Cafe in Goshen, IN

i.         March 25, 2006 9am-4pm Feed Your Eyes, Mind and Spirit #10 with Tom Humphries *DATE CHANGED TO MARCH 18*

  1. The new ASL1 instructor at Bethel is Joey Kutchka.
  2. Goshen College has 3 new adjunct faculty;  Wendy Nice, Jan Humphrey, and Charlotte Baker-Shenk

 

 

Meeting was adjourned at 1:37.

 

Respectfully submitted by,

Laura L. Leffler, secretary, ICRID