Approved Minutes 11/10/06

Board Meeting was called to order at 5:30

Ariane showed the board the new AID website in progress

The board voted by proxy for Sarah Machniak as the new AID Treasurer. 

Treasurers Report: needs access to bank account, wants to review budget and bank statements. We would like to know where we stand financially at each meeting.

Vice Presidents Report: Workshops- Working with Chris Grooms to set up a workshop on February 17 or 24 about ASL Linguistics and self evaluation for interpreters. AID will provide hotel for him. Deadline for a response is December 17 so we can get CEU’s.

Other possible presenters: Buddy Bower may do a workshop in April; Holly Warren-Norman said she could do a workshop about CTS, Annalisa Arnold, and Sarah Machniak.

VP’s are working on having Sorenson sponsor us for next year. Another idea for a workshop was to have a panel of CDI’s , experienced interpreters, and Deaf people talk about how to access and use interpreters. The Word Wars workshop brought in $73 for the workshop and $30 in new membership.

Parliamentarians Report: Casey is working on getting the bylaws committee together to update the constitution. Once this is done, it will need to be voted on.

Editors Report: Jay will be working with Ginger Bennett on newsletters to go out in December 2006, February 2007, May 2007, and August 2007.

Secretaries Report: AID now has 38 members

TSID Rep was not at the meeting but the bylaws were submitted to TSID for chapter in good standing.

Board discussed that communication between everyone has been difficult so it was decided that if important business needs to be taken care of, an email will be sent out. If the board has not responded within 7 days, a phone call will go out.

General meeting was called to order at 6:40 pm.

The minutes from September 8 were read.

Ariane Leverett asked that a motion be made to amend the minutes by adding the committees with the names of the chairs and volunteers involved in that committee. Ginger Bennett made the motion. Deborah Teller 2ond. Motion passed and minutes were approved provided the changes are made.

The board reports were given again.

The position for President elect was still open. Casey S nominated Aviva Householder.

Ginger Bennett 2ond. Motion passed. Aviva is the new President Elect.

The committee reports were given as follows:

      Events Committee: (Chair: Lisa Peralez) The 43^rd TSID birthday party is on November 18^th at Region 13. 2:00-5:00. $150 all together. A cookbook is being made with the AID logo on the front. The cookbooks are going to be prepaid.

Lisa Peralez made a motion to add $50 to the budget for Community Service.

Holly Warren-Norman 2ond and the motion was passed.

      Student Committee: (Chair: Nicole Sauvageau) Emily Anderson has been able to get students to volunteer interpret for every meeting.

Some questions to consider:

What can AID do to help the students?

Can we start an ACC interpreting club?

What kind of time commitment would that be?

Can we provide a mentorship between students and working terps?

Can we provide a panel of interpreters to answer any questions students may have? Ginger Bennett and Emily Anderson are going to try to put this together.

      Community Service Committee: (Chair: Jay Autin) We talked about the Holiday Store. We need to find volunteers to ask for donations and to work at the store.

      Professional Development Committee: (Chair: Ariane Leverett) Working on connections with CSD, CBH, SARID (for information) and Sorenson.

      Nominating Committee: (Chair: Ginger Bennett) Looking for the interpredillo. Also looking to nominate someone as a lifetime AID member.

      Audit Committee: (Chair: Sarah Machniak) Nothing to report.

Mini Reports:

• Deaf and Hard of Hearing Festival on September 9, 2006 was a success. 600 people showed up
• Phil from Philly Putty Designs did some basic clean up on the AID website for free and offered to update, maintain, and fix everything for $100. Ariane Leverett made a motion to let Phil do this. Jay Autin 2ond and the motion was passed

Ginger Bennett made a point of order: Is it okay for Ariane to make a motion? Yes, as long as it’s her committee but she cannot vote on the motion.

• Ginger Bennett talked to Ida Flannery about the TSID P.O. Box and how they set it up. They have one box that never changes and they go to pick up the mail every 2 weeks. Deborah Teller made a motion to establish a P.O. Box for AID that won’t change. Ginger Bennett 2ond and the motion was passed.
• Holly Warren-Norman made a motion to make a donation of $50 in the form of a check or gift card on behalf of AID to the Holiday Store. Jay Autin 2ond and the motion was passed.

Holly Warren-Norman and Jay Autin made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:50pm. Lisa Peralez 2ond and the meeting was adjourned.