KCB Board Meeting – May, 2016
The monthly meeting of the Kentucky Council of the Blind Board of Directors was held via conference call on Monday, May 16, 2016. Vice President Joey Couch called the meeting to order at 8:05 PM eastern time. Answering the roll call were Joey Couch, Deb Trevino, Rick Boggess, Carla Ruschival, Debbie Deatherage, Elaine Weisbard, “Cisco” Slusher, Natalie Beyers, Shirley Stivers, Bill Wright, Gerry Slusher, Bill Roberts, Frank Campbell and Lisa McKeown. Deb Lewis, Bill Deatherage, Amanda Selm and Michelle Haycraft were absent. Guest Adam Ruschival was also present.
Vice President Joey Couch called for reading the April 18 board meeting minutes and summary. Since copies were distributed in advance, Elaine Weisbard made a motion to dispense with their reading and for approval. The motion was seconded by Frank Campbell and unanimously approved.
Treasurer’s Report
Treasurer Carla Ruschival presented her report for April. Carla reported the stock reserve balance reflects the recent improved performance by the stock market. She also stated that KCB received $4000 from the Downtown Louisville Lions Club ($3000 for Sound Prints and $1000 for GLCB Roundabout.) This will not be reflected until May since the check had not cleared. Carla reported she has paid ACB as follows: $1545 for membership dues, $100 for the Charlie Hodge Angel Page, $500 for the Jim Shaw Angel Page and $100 for the two Braille Forum raffle tickets. The payments are not reflected in the April report. Rick Boggess made a motion to approve the treasurer’s report. The motion was seconded by Deb Trevino and unanimously approved.
Chapter Reports
Eastern Kentucky Christian Council: Frank Campbell reported there will be a Meeting at 1 PM on May 21 at the Breathitt County Library in Jackson to set a date and plan for their picnic.
Northern Kentucky Council: Gerry Slusher reported the chapter is planning a picnic at their home on May 28 or 30. The Greenway Trail Day (postponed because of the weather) and their clothing drive will be held in June. Members will prepare Crab Rangoon on June 11 j at Amerasia in Covington.
Greater Louisville Council: Deb Deatherage reported that about 41 people attended the GLCB Quarterly meeting on April 29. David Smith, Kendall Perry, Patti Cox and Josh Gentry were elected to serve as directors. Thirty-five people or more have attended the last three Roundabouts. Mike Tindell from HumanWare demonstrated the new BrailleNote Touch at the May 13 meeting and Larry Skutchan will demonstrate the Orbit Reader 20 on May 20. The May 7 Derby Party was also well attended. Members have also met with Metro Councilman Bill Hollander to try to resolve some issues with TARC and TARC3. They also hope to schedule a dine out in June.
Tri-State Library Users Group: Bill Wright reported the chapter will hold a dinner meeting on May 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 at the North End Café at 1722 Frankfort Avenue. Last month’s phone conference call with Turley Richards was very informative.
Guide Dog Users of Kentucky: Debbie Deatherage reported last month’s walk in the United Crescent Hill Ministries neighborhood was cancelled due to bad weather. Instead, about 10 members met for lunch at North End Café. The next meeting will be a conference call at 7 PM on May 23.
Support Alliance of the Visually Impaired: Bill Roberts reported that thirteen members and two guests attended the May 10 meeting. Patty Haas from the Evansville Association for the Blind did an excellent presentation and brought lots of materials for purchase. Rick Boggess also talked about supporting the e-Racers and possible upcoming board planning meetings to discuss insurance and 501(c)3.
KCB Next Generation: Lisa McKeown reported the chapter did not have its conference call on May 8. Their May 14 picnic was cancelled because of the weather. They hope to discuss rescheduling the picnic during their June 12 conference call meeting.
Committees
PR/Membership: Rick Boggess reported the committee met on May 4. We hope to highlight some chapter activities in the June newsletter so anyone with information should get it to Rick or Carla in the next week or two. Calendar and webpage updates continue. Board summaries for 2013 have been added and a few 12012 summaries and State Convention summaries will be added in the near future. Joey and Amanda continue to do a good job updating our Facebook page. We continue to work on updating contacts on the four year college campuses—we have contacts at UK, Murray, Western, Bellarmine and Morehead. The email lists have been reorganized and moved to our website and Carla continues to work on updating addresses. Several posts to the new KCB news list have been forwarded to Office for the Blind staff which means we are reaching more people. Carla reported the May 15 Sound Prints has an interview with 2006 KSB graduate Darren Harbour discussing his experiences in theater and modeling. Jennifer Wright posted information about the interview to OFB staff since he was their outstanding consumer in 2014. In addition, Carla received a call from a counselor in New York who plans to share the interview with a client who is interested in theater.
Old Business
Joey Couch reminded the board about the $200 KCB stipend available to those attending the national convention in Minneapolis. To be eligible to the stipend, members must attend the Sunday night or Friday session plus one other session during the week.
New Business
Carla Ruschival indicated she learned about some new services available from Gator, our web hosting service. One of the services involves placing our large Sound Prints audio files in their cloud based service rather than on our site. This might resolve some issues experienced by those trying to listen online. Deb Trevino made a motion that KCB pay $50 to transfer the files to the cloud provided the change does not have significant negative impact on our current webpage. Rick Boggess seconded the motion which was unanimously approved.
Carla Ruschival reported No major actions were taken at the SRC meeting on April 22. Shirley Stivers has been elected vice chair for the coming year.
Carla Ruschival announced that Deb Deatherage was one of eight to receive the DKM Leadership Award and will be attending the national convention this summer. Approximately 30 people applied.
Announcements and Adjournment
Elaine Weisbard made a motion to adjourn. The motion was seconded by Rick Boggess and unanimously approved. The meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM.
Submitted by Rick Boggess, KCB Secretary
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