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RETIRED
EMPLOYEES OF KERN COUNTY
MINUTES OF BOARD
MEETING
November
12, 2002
President, David
Merritt, called the meeting to order at
10:01 a.m.
ROLL CALL:
Norman Briggs, Allan Choy, Nettie
Collins, John DeMario, Opal Hargis,
Tom McCarthy, Ginger Mello, David
Merritt, Joe Porter, Elinor Wells and
Doris Williams.
OTHERS PRESENT:
Jeanne Berkshire, Belva Jarad and
Everett Julkowski.
MOTION by Opal Hargis
to approve October minutes as written;
seconded by Nettie
Collins and CARRIED.
Doris Williams gave
the Treasurer’s Report of October 31,
2002; copies are on file.
MOTION by Tom
McCarthy, seconded by Joe Porter to accept
the report and the
MOTION CARRIED.
Doris Williams moved that the
enumerated bills be paid; seconded
by Elinor Wells and CARRIED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
- CRCEA
- Everett Julkowski distributed to all
Board members a blue packet with the
Fall Conference Report in it.
Everett noted several areas in
the packet that he felt he should call
to the attention of the board members
as they read the information.
Everett also announced that he
had resigned as the chairman of the
conference committee due to the many
activities that he is involved with
plus the health problems of his wife.
Everett does want to continue
as delegate of REOKC if the President
so chooses.
In the report tells the
clarification of the Liability
Insurance Policy that was purchased by
CRCEA and all the associations agreed
that it was a good deal. As it turns out the 1 million dollar policy covers all
20 counties.
If one county had a problem and
used the 1 million dollars then all
the rest of the counties would have no
coverage for the remainder of the
year. President, David Merritt, reported that the speakers at
the conference were excellent, top
notch people in their field and were
right up to date.
The speakers were familiar with
Seniors issues and what the visions of
the future looks like.
The Spring CRCEA Conference
will be held in San Diego, CA during
the week of March 17-19, 2003.
The other item that Everett
brought to the attention of our Board
was the fact that we need to appoint
an alternate and that both the
delegate and the alternate attend the
conference.
You never know whether when the
time comes to vote, that the delegate
can be in attendance.
If the delegate is not able to
vote, then the alternate would take
his place.
- CCAPE
– Norman Briggs stated he would give
the report that Blue O’Connor would
normally give.
Blue apologized for not being
in attendance and that Ward had
nothing.
It was determined that there
was nothing to go back to Ward from
our organization.
- Host/Hostess
Program – For the month of October,
36 volunteers worked 110 hours and
assisted 1,556 visitors at the County
Administration Building.
A discussion was held on
whether we need to have someone at the
information area on Friday because of
tax season.
It was decided that since the
taxes are due in another two weeks
that it is not necessary.
- Monthly
Program – Today, Kenny Souers from
Hoffman Hospice will speak to us.
For the month of December,
Nettie got a confirmation on e-mail
from Mr. Witmer that Stockdale High
School would entertain us at the
Christmas Luncheon.
Ginger sent him a letter asking
him to confirm and at this time Nettie
had not heard from him.
Nettie gave our upcoming 1st
Vice President information for future
meetings.
A couple of ideas were getting
someone in the District Attorney’s
office to speak on fraud, and Highland
High School Jazz Group, which is doing
fund raising for a trip to New York.
The flu clinic is being held
today from 9:00 a.m. until 12 noon.
- Newsletter
– Joe apologized for having
incorrectly stated the price of the
Christmas Luncheon tickets.
Doris Smith made telephone
calls to those who paid $5 by check
and had their telephone numbers on
their checks.
Between Dave and Ginger, we
delivered Doris envelopes, stamps and
notices to send to those she
couldn’t contact by
telephone.
A discussion was held on making
up a list of items needed to be
provided by the business that would
like to do our catered luncheons.
Joe Porter, Norm Briggs and Tom
McCarthy will make up the list and get
the bids for our Luncheons beginning
with the February Luncheon.
Joe will meet with Mossmans to
get the menu for the Christmas
Luncheon and keep the price at no more
than $10.75.
John DeMario stated that now
was the time to discuss whether we
want to have luncheons every month.
John spoke with the Retirement
Office and we could have a deduction
of $6.00 per month to cover the 10
monthly luncheons and the Christmas
luncheon.
With this system you would have
a luncheon card for the monthly
luncheons and Christmas luncheon.
For those people who do not
attend all the meetings, there could
be a refund system at the end of the
year.
John DeMario volunteered to
take care of the printout from the
Retirement Office of those who had a
deduction held out of their checks.
John volunteered to produce the
cards and keep track of those who
paid.
John DeMario also stated that a
couple of ladies approached him to
find out if bingo could be played
before our meetings.
Another idea would be to have
computer classes prior to the time for
the lunch setup.
President, David Merritt,
appointed the program chair (1st
Vice President) to be the chairman of
the committee looking into the
computer classes. John DeMario volunteered to sit on this committee.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Jeanne Berkshire stated she had
brought the Contract with the Kern County
Fair to be signed.
It was determined that Jeanne and
David would sign it.
David signed it and Jeanne will
sign and return it to the Fair. The President received 13 County Newsletters, Braille
Institute Brochure, Kern County Museum
Newsletter, Bakersfield Homeless Center
Newsletter and an invitation to a Roy
Ashburn fund raiser. John DeMario suggested that we should send a letter of
congratulations to the winning candidates
that we supported and that we look forward
to working with them in the future.
President, David Merritt, kindly
asked the 2nd Vice President to
e-mail him something in this order and he
would print it up and send it.
OLD BUSINESS:
- Status
of Procedures for Special Use Fund –
No Report
- Status
of Public Relations Committee – No
Report
- Web
Page – The web site is not limited
for space. Norm inquired on how long would the board like him to
keep the minutes and Trend on the web
site.
The suggestion was made to keep
them for a 12 month period and then
drop them one at a time.
This was agreed to by all in
attendance.
Web Page is going OK. A
suggestion was made to put a reminder
on the Web Site that the price of the
Christmas Luncheon is $10.00 and a
menu would be nice, if possible.
- Status
of Political Interview Committee –
This item was handled at the end of
the Communications section above.
- Brochure
– No Report – Cathy Olague had
been invited to the meeting to discuss
the brochure but was not in
attendance.
- Nominating
Committee Report – The committee
confirmed that they had not found
someone to take the Treasurers
position and John DeMario volunteered
to take the position until someone can
be found.
Unless there is a nomination
from the floor, ballots will not be
needed.
- Clarification
of Directors and Officers Liability
Insurance – This item was covered in
the CRCEA Report.
The President will confer with
Jack Roth at Walter Mortensen
Insurance regarding receiving a quote
for Directors and Officer Liability
Insurance.
At the time that we got the
blanket policy from CRCEA we dropped
the plan of getting a quote from
Mortensen.
NEW BUSINESS:
- Meeting
dates for 2003 – For November 2003
meeting will be moved back one week to
November 18, 2003.
November 11, 2003 is Veterans
Day and falls on Tuesday. The President didn’t want to hold the meeting on a
holiday.
It was brought to our attention
that the holiday will be on Monday. The decision was made to attempt to get the building for
November 11, 2003.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The discussion was held to make the
fee that we pay the person who sets up the
table and chairs should be the same each
month.The amount paid has been $35.00 on
odd months and $45.00 on luncheon months.
Norm is suggesting that he
doesn’t see that much difference in what
they do each month.
The decision was made to let the
incoming 2nd Vice President
have a line item in the budget like the 1st
Vice President does for Program and can
decide each month on which amount to pay.
A MOTION was
made by John DeMario to adjourn the
meeting at 11:44 a.m., seconded by Norman
Briggs and CARRIED.
RESPECTFULLY
SUBMITTED,
Ginger
Mello, Secretary
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