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October 11, 2005 The meeting was
called to order at 10:10 a.m. by President, Norman
Briggs.
ROLL CALL: Jeanne
Berkshire, Norman Briggs, Nettie Collins, John DeMario,
Opal Hargis, Lois Maujer, Ginger Mello, David Merritt,
Earlene Smith, Walter Stewart and Elinor Wells
OTHERS PRESENT: Mary Lou
Bennett, Belva Jared and Everett Julkowski
MOTION by David Merritt to
approve the September Minutes as read, seconded by Lois
Maujer and CARRIED.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
CRCEA - Everett Julkowski
announced that due to the health conditions of his wife,
he is resigning the position of CRCEA Delegate,
effective today, which he has held for the last 12
years. Everett did an excellent job in this position
and we are sorry to see him give it up. MOTION by
Everett Julkowski to have David Merritt, alternate
delegate, move up to delegate, seconded by Lois Maujer
and CARRIED.
CCAPE – Mary Lou Bennett
reported that she spoke to Blue O’Connor and he stated
that the doctor had told him to stay close to home.
At this time, a discussion was
held regarding Mary Hancock. Mary had spoken to
President, Norman Briggs, regarding helping in some
capacity. Norman had an idea to talk to her about being
involved in membership. Our membership draw is good but
Norman feels that it can be made better. Possibly
direct benefits from belonging to this organization such
as discount coupons and the savings our members can get
from Liberty Mutual. It was decided that President,
Norman Briggs would contact Mary and discuss with her
the possibility of her chairing a Committee and then
bring it back to the Board.
HOST/HOSTESS PROGRAM – Mary
Lou Bennett reported that for the month of September
there were 32 volunteers who worked 97.5 hours and
assisted 892 visitors to the County Administration
Building. Since 1992 through September 2005 the
Host/Hostess Program has assisted 226,240 visitors to
the County Administration Building. Mary Lou stated
there hasn’t been a new volunteer for the program in
several months.
MONTHLY PROGRAM -
President, Norman Briggs, announced that today we will
have Eric Barthel as our guest speaker. Eric is the
Health Insurance Benefits Consultant for Kern County. He
will be speaking on Medicare Part D. At the CRCEA
Conference next week and the SACRS Conference in
November, Medicare Part D will be a topic of
conversation.
NEWSLETTER – The articles
for the TREND need to be to Vicki by October 15th.
The TREND needs to be out to everybody earlier than
usual because of the November meeting being held a week
earlier than usual.
KCERA – Wanda Castro was
not in attendance.
TREASURER – John DeMario
gave the Treasurer’s Report. MOTION by Dave
Merritt to approve the September Treasurer’s Report,
seconded by Nettie Collins and CARRIED. MOTION
by Dave Merritt to approve the Claims Payable, seconded
by Elinor Wells and CARRIED.
John DeMario reported on
the cost of the TREND. John included everything to do
with the TREND whether it is printing, postage, Web
Site, etc. The costs come to just under $2600 an
edition. The average size is just a little over 9 pages
per issue. The amount that the Credit Union pays to
help with the cost of the TREND is a percentage of the
cost. John does not list on our income taxes that
amount as revenue. If we were to go to a flat rate then
John would have to list the flat rate amount as
revenue. After considerable discussion about things to
use as fillers, articles and price; a MOTION by
Lois Maujer to set the price at $350 per full page ads,
no proration for partial pages, subject to review and
approval of the Board before publication, seconded by
Dave Merritt and CARRIED.
John DeMario gave his report on
the cost of the luncheons. We have served 879 meals so
far this year excluding the July picnic. It is costing
REOKC $1.29 per meal. REOKC has set an amount of $1.50
as the subsidy of the meals per person.
COMMUNICATIONS –President,
Norman Briggs reported he had received several county
newsletters.
OLD BUSINESS:
STATUS OF PUBLIC RELATIONS
COMMITTEE – Secretary, Ginger Mello announced that
she thought she had the next meeting set for November 16th
until she received the KCERA newsletter and found that
the only day that the Retirement Board is going to meet
in November is the 16th. It is very
important that President, Norman Briggs be at the Public
Relations meeting because REOKC is hosting the meeting.
It was decided that Norman would be able to leave the
Retirement Board meeting early, if necessary, to get to
the PR meeting. The next meeting will be on November 16th.
WEB PAGE –President, Norman
Briggs, announced that the son of Joe Porter, former
TREND editor, has a local business in designing Web
Pages. Norman got preliminary information from him.
The price is a little less here than the company in
North Carolina that we are using, but they have worked
out a great relationship with Norman. The decision was
to leave our Web Page as is. Mary Lou Bennett commented
on the fact that some of the information on the Web is
not up to date. Mary Lou will send an e-mail of all the
corrections to Norman for him to input. President,
Norman Briggs also brought up the fact that Mary Lou has
offered to be a proof reader for the TREND and he would
like to be able to purchase Microsoft Publisher for her
to install on her computer. MOTION by Dave
Merritt for the President to purchase 2 copies of
Microsoft Publisher (1 for Norman and 1 for Mary Lou),
seconded by Opal Hargis and CARRIED.
PAC UPDATE – The attorney
is working on getting all the paperwork together.
MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN POSITION –
Information on Page 1.
NEW BUSINESS:
NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT –
Dave Merritt, Chairman announced the Officers that
are continuing are President, 1st Vice
President, 2nd Vice President and Secretary.
Mary Lou Bennett is running for Treasurer. There are
three positions for Directors and five people running
for those positions. Those five running are Alan Annis,
Don Hoffman, Greg Salas, Earlene Smith and Walter
Stewart, with Earlene and Walter as incumbents.
Secretary, Ginger Mello will be making the ballots. At
the General Meeting today, Dave can ask if there are any
nominations for officers from the floor and if there are
NO nominations, then we can have a unanimous vote for
officers.
FAIR REPORT – Jeanne
Berkshire reported that the fair went well. She
believes that there were 46 volunteers who worked. She
had a few no shows but she was covered. Jeanne will go
to the bank and get $10.00 for each who worked that is
on payroll deduction for their luncheon tickets. Jeanne
will then file a claim with the Treasurer for
reimbursement.
COMPUTER GIVE AWAY - John
DeMario has 3 computers ready to give away and will have
a total of 6 computers. The decision was that we will
give away 2 computers in each of January, February and
March. It was also decided that you have to purchase a
luncheon ticket to be able to purchase the $1.00 raffle
ticket for the computers
HOSTESS POSITION DISCUSSION –
Secretary, Ginger Mello announced that at the August
meeting President, Norman Briggs appointed Ann Farrell
and Thelma Hale to the Hostess Position. This is the
position that sells the raffle tickets. Harold and
Karen Yingst are listed in the directory at this
position. It has been decided that all four will be the
Hostesses. Harold & Karen vacation a lot and this way
there is a back up for them. At the Christmas luncheon
all four will be working.
John DeMario announced that on
October 26th there will be a meeting after
the regular Retirement Board Meeting to discuss the
Death Benefits. The meeting will be about 10 or 10:30
a.m. on the 3rd Floor. There is about $17
million. We need as many people as possible at this
meeting.
MOTION by Walter Stewart to
adjourn the meeting at 11:40 a.m., seconded by Lois
Maujer and CARRIED.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, Ginger
Mello, Secretary
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