Interpreters with Deaf Parents Member Section of RID, Inc.
Meeting of Officers and Regional Representatives April 17th, 2012 8:30 9:30pm EST
Minutes
Council Members in Attendance: Chair – Suzanne Nace Vice Chair – Laurie Nash Treasurer – Amy Williamson Secretary Karen Lefebvre Region I – Kelly Decker Region II Angie Nielson & Kathleen Austin Region IV Darlene Ensenat Region V Tom Satterlee Agenda and Tele‐Conference access information e‐mailed prior to meeting by Council Chair ‐ Suzanne Nace Mission of IDP To promote greater understanding and awareness of the values of the Deaf Community as well as the skills, dedication and sensibilities that interpreters with Deaf parents continue to offer to the interpreting profession. Motion “E” ‘Move that the Board of Directors charge the Bylaws Committee, in consultation with the leadership of the IDP Member Section, to develop by law amendments that establish a position on the Board of Directors to represent RID members who were raised by a Deaf parent or Deaf parents, together with appropriate qualifications and duties for this position.” ******************************************************************************************************************
Agenda Chair’s Report: Suzanne began the meeting with attendance of the Council. A discussion was held regarding Regional Representatives and their willingness to serve. A plan was made for our Chair to make a telephone call directly to two representatives in order to determine their intentions of serving on the Council for the next two years. Treasurer’s Report: As of February 29, 2012 the balance is: $4293. 84 (this is the last ledger statement I have from RID) Between Jan 1, 2012 and Feb 29, 2012: We received $5 on 2/17/12 We spent $150 on 1/26/12 for the Deposit to Camp Mark 7 for the Deaf Caucus/IDP Region I retreat that will be happening in September. This deposit was split with DC who also contributed $150. • The ins and outs for the financial needs of the IDP/DC retreat are being handled by Vermont RID as an ‘in kind’ donation of time and bank administration. HUGE thank you to VTRID. Kelly Decker and I are in touch with the VTRID treasurer, Cory Brunner, in overseeing those funds. Once the retreat is over,
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the account with VTRID will be closed and (hopefully) a check for the difference will be cut to us. Any profits from that retreat will be split with Deaf Caucus. The $150 deposit is expected to come back into the IDP treasury at that point. The retreat is designed to pay for itself and there is no $$ expected from IDP or DC to cover the costs. • Anticipated payments and reimbursements totaling ~$2000 are anticipated over the next several months to cover conference calls, reimbursement to regional conferences, fees to reserve tables in the exhibit hall at regional conference, shipping costs for the banner, etc. In light of the dwindling treasury, I would like for IDP to seriously look at trainings, workshops, forums that can happen in regions or at a more local level in order to generate some revenue in supporting future events for IDP. If we are going to continue a trend of supporting our council members in attending National or Regional conferences (which I think we should) then we need to commit to bringing some money into the IDP treasury. • Reimbursement requests were submitted from four representatives to the treasurer and sent to RID on 4/15/12. Please let me know if you have not received reimbursement within 3‐4 weeks. If anyone else needs a reimbursement for anything, please get your receipts to me and I'll get them processed ASAP. Regional Conference Reports All the Regional Conferences Committees are now actively planning their events and activities. IDP wishes to be sure our presence is known through our Member Section Meeting. Region V: June 1317, 2012" Ohana: Celebrating Our Ties". Thomas Satterlee, indicated folks are busy with the planning of the conference. He expressed concern with the general form for space request. The member section representative is required to submit in order to secure a time and day for the IDP Members section meeting. Kelly, offered, on her Region I form, she indicated she gave some preferred days and times for the consideration of the Committee’s planning the agenda and allocation of space and a tentative number of folks who may be in attendance. Our Chair informed Tom, she will e‐mail the proper documents for him to fill out and submit. Additionally Tom requested a copy of the ‘Talking Points’ from Suzanne. Our Chair indicated she will develop these ‘Talking Points’ after taking some information from the ‘To Do List’ of Dennis Cokely and combining with other pertinent pieces of information. During this discussion, Darlene offered we may wish to include during the Members Section Meetings a discussion of the criteria on the credentials needed for the position, if ‘Motion E ‘ is passed. The Region V IDP representative’s Members Section meeting will be presented as a Community Forum and Julian Wascio from Deaf Caucus will assist. There is no official representative at the moment from Deaf Caucus in Region V. In conclusion a discussion was held on the mailing of the IDP banner to the Region V Conference hotel site in Hawaii or to Tom in Arizona by Amy, our treasurer. Tom will let Amy know which mailing address he prefers after checking with the Region V Committee. Region III July 18 – 21, 2012 Wyndham Lisle Chicago Hotel and Executive Center, Lisle, IL Suzanne, our Council Chair, will be available to assist during the IDP Members Section meeting to be held on Wednesday, July 18th, 3:00‐5:00pm. Again, she will use notes from Dennis Cokely’s ‘To Do List’ and other facts to develop ‘Talking Points’ that will be used during the Member Section Meetings. Suzanne will be mailing to each Regional Representative.
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It was determined there are two IDP banners. One will be sent to her for the Region III meeting as well as the one being mailed to Region V, Tom. Region I July 26-29, 2012 Sheraton Atlantic City, Atlantic City, NJ Kelly Decker, Region I, informed the Council all of the paper work has been submitted to acquire space for the IDP Member Section Meeting. She invited Laurie Nash, our IDP Vice-Chair and Lynette Taylor to facilitate the topic of Motion “E” for our members. They have accepted this task and we look forward to this Members section meeting. Kelly has also asked the Region I Representative that member sections have time during the regional business meeting to give an update to the membership. This seems likely possibility. On the topic of the banner, Kelly informed the council, there is no need to ship the banner to Region I, in order to save the cost for mailing. On another note, our Council Region I Rep, received national office approval for the sending of a support letter seeking sponsors for the upcoming event being held during September at Camp Mark Seven. This Reframing Retreat is in collaboration with the Deaf Caucus Region I Representative, Eileen Forestal. For more information about this retreat please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/reframingretreat/. Region II August 25, 2012 Hilton Ft. Lauderdale Marina, Fort Lauderdale, FL The member sections will be gathering on Saturday, August 4th, at 8:00 am ‐ 9:00am and IDP is in the process of locating an IDP member who will be willing to moderate this event. Again, a discussion was held to determine if coffee, tea, food to be available for the members of the IDP A suggestion was made for a call out to Region II to seek volunteers to moderate the IDP Member’s section meeting. This was done on Facebook and to the general membership. Region IV August 25, 2012 Sheraton Denver Downtown, Denver, CO Larry Barnett, Region IV, although not present during the Tele‐conference has committed to organizing the IDP Member’s Section Meeting. Forms have been submitted and approved. The Agenda has yet to be developed by the Regional committee. A discussion was held if they wish to have an am social or later afternoon social with Coffee, extra food or beverages available for a small fee. Further discussions on this or a Pre‐Conference event will be held during the next Tele‐conference meeting in May. Miscellaneous Sponsoring other organization’s events: Suzanne led the discussion for lending monetary support for the 51st Biennial National Association of the Deaf’s upcoming conference to be held in Kentucky. The IDP Council has completed and committed to an advertisement in NAD’s program booklet.
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The IDP Council also discussed the possibility of placing an add on their upcoming CODA conference in Florida, August 2nd ‐ 5th. Fund raising for IDP: Our chair led the discussion on whether the Council should purchase IDP Pins for a fund raising event. Laurie reported there are approximately 20 pins left. A discussion of a T‐shirt contest to be offered at the regional conferences was held. Suzanne has a friend who can print designs on shirts. She will inquire as to what is needed for this type of fund raising event. On that topic, questions to be answered are: Do we wish to pursue the fundraiser during the regional conferences, distribute the information, choose the best design to be created and sold during the national conference in 2013?. What type of prize will be given? What type of advertising can we do to promote this activity.? Other fundraising events include workshops sponsored by IDP and providing food and beverages for a small fee during the regional conferences. Amy indicated prior to closure on this topic of $$ to support our IDP. Her appreciation and accolades are sent to Kelly in her efforts in managing the upcoming event in September. These types of events bring funding to the IDP‐RID Member section. Finally, an IDP note was sent through the IDP Google group suggesting to include support for Member Section IDP‐ RID when members pay their annual dues to RID, Inc. Things to do: Send ‘Heads up’ Notes to Members regarding IDP Member Section Meetings. Explore T‐shirt Contest for fund raising. Mail ‘talking points’ to representatives who may not have them. Decide if some of the IDP Member Sections meetings will have food and/or beverages Decide if ‘pins’ will be a continued fund raiser. Is there time for IDP socials planned for the regional conferences? Respectfully submitted, Karen Lefebvre ‐ Sec. ‐ IDP‐RID Member Section
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