Members and friends of AADB:
I wanted to let all of you know that Scott Davert has resigned from the AADB Board of Directors due to his job and personal life. Let’s all wish Scott the best in his future endeavors. Thank you, Scott, for all of your hard work!
I also wanted to thank Elizabeth Spiers for all of her hard work compiling monthly reports and getting them out these past two months.
A new committee has been set up called the AADB Review Committee. This committee is reviewing the IT Committee report sent to members in March to revise the report and add more accurate and complete information. This committee consists of Jill Gaus, Randy Pope, Elizabeth Spiers, Kacie Weldy, Mark Gasaway and Darran Zenger.
The membership form that Randy Pope and I had worked on a few years ago has been given to the Networking and Recruitment committee. This committee will start working on this.
The accountant who has been working on QuickBooks is almost finished; minor changes need to be done. Once this is complete a 2012 budget will be reviewed and voted on again to override the temporary budget that was voted on and passed a few months ago. Also, once the CPA is working on the Form 990 and as soon as this is finished and reviewed, we will inform you this is available and be posted on the website.
An Election Committee is being set up at this time. I have asked two Active (Deaf-Blind) members if they are willing to become Co-Chairs. As soon as this committee is set up, we will announce the chairs and a call for nominations will be made.
Forever yours,
Jill Gaus, President
Committee Reports:
Finance Committee Report
Mike Reese, Chair; AADB Treasurer
Since last month's report, we have completed the temporary budget for review by the board. The data entry and the 2011 final financial budget created from QuickBooks have just been completed. The Finance Committee will next be reviewing this information from QuickBooks prior to having the entire Board review and approve it. By the next report, we will be able to report exactly what funds are available overall as well as in each part, such as restricted funds, general funds, and others.
Fundraising Committee Report
Jill Gaus with CM Hall Co-Chair
We are still looking for another Co-chair for the Fundraising committee, if you are interested please contact Jill Gaus.
I, Jill will be in touch with CM Hall in the next couple of weeks to discuss other fundraising ideas. I have been contacted by another website called HealthLine; they would like to interview me in regards to see what they can do to help AADB. I will be doing more research on this and will take this before the board for approval.
5YSPC-Five Year Strategic Planning Committee:
Mark Gasaway, Co-Chair
Karyn Campbell, Co-Chair
The survey subcommittee of the 5-Year Strategic Planning Committee put out a survey on what AADB's priorities should be. Rene Pellerin and Sar McMillan co-chaired this subcommittee. Corrina Veesart, Heather Grizzle and Carlie Grippi were members of this subcommittee and we thank them for their service.
The Survey Committee will be collecting responses and share them with the chairs of the Strategy Planning Committee.
If anyone has any questions, please contact:
Karyn Campbell - karynaadb@wowway.com
Mark Gasaway - mark.gasaway@comcast.net
Networking and Recruitment Report
Mark Gasaway, Chair
I have received a membership and recruitment proposal done some years ago by two individuals with connections to AADB. I am first reviewing the proposal on my own and then will send it to committee members for their review before starting to relate goals and such in the proposal to the best way to recruit new members.
We will then put any developments into a new report.
Office Committee Report:
Lynn Jansen, Chair
The accountant has finished entering all the necessary information into QuickBooks and we are now reviewing the financial statement for the year 2011. Because the financial report is not ready yet, the CPA filled out a form 8868 to IRS for a three months extension to send in the required Form 990 that was due on May 15, 2012.
We are still in contact with a pro bono lawyer to seek legal advice on how to handle the lease and other contracts that AADB no longer needs. For the last part of April and the first week of May, we have received and answered 4 VP calls, 17 phone calls and 78 email messages.
Reports not submitted:
Bylaws
SSP
Policy
Multi-Media
Membership
No membership questions were submitted.
Update from the National Task Force on Deaf-Blind Interpreting
The National Task Force on Deaf-Blind Interpreting (NTFDBI) has had some recent changes in membership. One of the co-chairs, Susie Morgan Morrow, who has been the RID representative to the Task Force since its inception in 2005 and was instrumental in the establishment of the Task Force, has stepped down. We wish to thank her for her six years of service and the significant contributions she has made to the accomplishments of the Task Force. CM Hall, who has been one of the representatives to the NTFDBI from the National Consortium of Interpreter Education Centers (NCIEC), along with Richard Laurion, will add another hat and be our new RID representative and co-chair. She brings experience in both interpreting and teaching interpreting with deaf-blind people and is also the secretary of the RID Deaf-Blind Member Section. She will serve along with Rhonda Jacobs, who remains as the AADB representative and co-chair.
We are please to announce six new members of the Task Force:
- Bryen Yunashko, Illinois
- Patrick Galasso, Vermont
- Joan Pellerin, Vermont
- Keri Ogrizovich, Vermont, RID CDI representative
- Steven Collins, Maryland, RID CDI representative
- Jan Humphrey, Florida, CIT representative
We also have a new RID staff liaison:
- Matthew O’Hara, Virginia
They will be serving along with continuing members:
- Ashley Benton, North Carolina
- Jill Gaus, Michigan, AADB Board liaison
- Jeanette Ocampo Welch, Massachusetts
- Janice Cagan-Teuber, Massachusetts, RID Board liaison
- Pearl Veesart, California, NFADB representative
- Richard Laurion, Minnesota, NCIEC representative
- CM Hall, Oregon, Co-chair, RID representative; NCIEC representative
- Rhonda Jacobs, Co-chair, AADB representative
We are very much looking forward to working with all our new members to advance our mission of establishing a standard of effective practice to ensure the quality and availability of interpreters for deaf-blind people. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please send an e-mail to NTFDBI@gmail.com.
Jill Gaus President
American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB)
Email: jagaus@sbcglobal.net or AADB-Info@aadb.org
Web: www.aadb.org
If you would like to support AADB, please go to www.aadb.org and send a donation of any amount there. Your support is much appreciated as it will improve quality of life for all deaf-blind Americans.
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