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EMPLOYEES OF KERN COUNTY
MINUTES OF GENERAL
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
August 12, 2003
The meeting was called to order by President, David Merritt, at 12:00
P.M. Walter Stewart led the Pledge of
Allegiance. A moment of silence was held.
In attendance were four new members.
Also President, David Merritt, announced that long time member, Alice Mack
is confined to California Care for unknown reasons. She
is looking very frail. Also, Everett
Julkowski had a triple or quadruple bypass surgery and a pacemaker installed and he was at
home. During the meeting President, David
Merritt, spoke with Cathy Olague from Kern Federal Credit Union who reported that Everett
was taken back to the hospital after a mild stroke. His
vision was the only thing at this time that is affected.
After eating our catered luncheon, our speakers were
introduced. Member, Sheila Roth, introduced
Teresa Irvin Twisselman, Coordinator, English/Language Arts, with the Kern County
Superintendent of Schools. Teresa works with
all the teachers in the County to get their students to read at grade level. Teresa is looking for volunteers to go to member
schools to read with the students in the second grade.
A volunteer would volunteer one
day a week for one hour. You would be a member for a team of five and
this way you
work only 1 day a week but the students would have one-on-one reading
assistance five
days per week. The
length of time you would volunteer is a semester. A
semester would be September to December and the next semester would be January through
May. Vice President,
Norman Briggs, introduced Al Eaton from Smith Barney.
Mr. Eaton spoke on Fraud. Mr.
Eaton has many certifications and in the 1980’s was employed with the Kern County
Airports. Mr. Eaton stated the over 1/3 of
all the fraud in this country is perpetrated on seniors 65 years and over. Most telemarketers are honest and doing their job. But the ones who do illegal activities are con
artists. They are after the money that senior
citizens have. The senior citizens have a
flaw which is that they tend to trust people more than they should. Seniors are also at home more. Mr. Eaton gave several points to think about that
are illegal. It is illegal to pay money to
win a prize, to ask for a fee to get a loan, never give your bank account number or VISA
number to a telemarketer, etc. Kelly
McWatters from Smith Barney spoke on identity theft.
She suggested that everybody should order a credit report on a yearly basis. The three major credit bureaus to order a credit
report from are Equifax, Trans Union and Experian. It
was stated that you should never carry your social security card with you. The problem that was brought up by one of the
members is the fact that your social security number is on your Medicare card. Everything that comes to your house should be
shredded even your address label on your junk mail.
Doris Williams gave the Treasurer’s Report for June 30,
2003 and July 31, 2003. Doris reported the
total REOKC membership as of July 31, 2003 was 3,105.
BUSINESS MEETING:
CRCEA – President, David Merritt, reported at the
beginning of our meeting concerning the health of Everett Julkowski. No Report
EYE GLASS – Helen Heath reported that since the
June meeting she has collected 8 pair of glasses, 1 eye glass case, 2 pair dark glasses
and 2 loose lens.
SUNSHINE – Elinor Wells reported that during the
last two months she has sent out a total of 8 cards.
NEWSLETTER – The deadline for articles to go in the
TREND is the 20th of the month.
OLD BUSINESS: Fair
Sign-up sheets are in the back of the room. If
you work at the fair, you get to go to the Christmas Luncheon at no cost. Working at the fair allows us to use Harvest Hall
free of charge for our Christmas Luncheon, which is a savings of almost $3,000 to our
organization.
President, David Merritt, also announced that he has some payroll
deduction forms that need to be signed if you wish to have your monthly luncheon come
directly out of your payroll check. If you
sign up now, your deduction will only be $4.00 in place of the $5.00 that you will be
paying if you pay cash.
NEW BUSINESS: We
are forming a Nominating Committee for Officers and Directors for next year. Our by-laws state that there are 2 Board Members
and 3 members of the general membership on the Nominating Committee. At this time Tom McCarthy and Opal Hargis are the
two Board members and Belva Jarad and Lois Maujer are from the general membership. We are still in need of one more from the general
membership. If you are interested in serving
in this short term capacity, please contact Tom McCarthy.
The attendance prize was won by Mary Harrison.
There were 28 - $5.00 door prizes. After the distribution of prizes, the meeting
was adjourned at 1:50 P.M.
Respectfully submitted this 23rd day of August,
2003.
Ginger Mello, Secretary
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