Reports - Secretary

Southern California Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf

Board of Directors Meeting

Tele-Conference

 October 16, 2010

                            1:00 PM 

Officers

1.  President-*Robin Taylor                                       2. Vice President – Renahlee Crow

3. Secretary - Michael Klyn                                       4. Treasurer - Richard Bernard

5. Member-at-Large - *Marlene Shanker                 6. Ex-Officio- Julie Casaccia

Standing Committee Chairs

1.  CMP-Steve Barnthouse/Maren Jensen                  2.  Lou Fant Memorial - *Beth D'Addario

3.  Membership-*Robin Taylor (acting)                    4.  PDC- *Juti Seshi

5.  Mentorship- Kathy Goodson

6.  Student Representative/Support the Gap-

7.  Fundraising- Kate Bess                                        9.  Website – Daryl Crouse

8. Trilingual- Vacant

Regional Representatives                                        

1.  Inland Empire-Michael Klyn                               2. South Bay – Tamara Hill

*represents present for meeting

Members/Visitors

        I.      Call the meeting to order.  Without a quorum present, President Robin Taylor called the meeting to order at 1:19 PM.

      II.      Roll Call.  President Taylor called roll.  See above for those present.

    III.      Reading of SCRID Mission Statement.  SCRID Mission Statement was read by Robin Taylor.

   IV.      Approval of Agenda. Without quorum, the meeting was held as informational only.

     V.      Approval of September 2010 Minutes.  Without quorum, September minutes were not voted on.

   VI.      President’s Report. See attached.

Shanker questioned if the workshop following the meeting at the College of the Canyons would be free for members only. Taylor replied that it was.

Taylor asked if anyone would be willing to pick up lunch from the Subway near the College. D’Addario volunteered to pick it up.

 VII.      Member-at-Large. See attached. 

VIII.      Standing Committee Reports

a.      CMP

b.      Membership

c.      PDC Seshi brought questions to the board regarding the set up of the budget. Currently it is stated the committee has $4000 to have 4 workshops per year. The committee queried if it was possible to use the same funding for 2 exceptional workshops instead of 4. Taylor explained that the budget wasn’t an establishment of how the committee should be run, however the committee should keep in mind that the funds brought in from a workshop will ‘refill’ the PDC budget. So the $1000 per workshop was to be utilized in advance of the workshop to secure an event space, speaker etc and the registration fees could then, in the perfect scenario, bring the committee to a break even status. It was clarified that any funds that are earned by the committee above and beyond the budget did go into the general fund.

Discussion regarding presenter fees ensued. It had been stated that there are no standardized presenter fees for the committee to work from. Taylor confirmed this to be true but assured Seshi that if the committee decided to establish a rate they could do so. It was clarified that this would not be an issue that the board would need to vote on, but it would be best for the board to be made aware of any decisions that were made regarding this. Taylor shared that the presenter fees paid to presenters at the National Center On Deafness for a 3 hour presentation are $250. A general survey will be taken on presenter fees with information being gathered from entities such as RID and SDCRID to get a feel for the standard rate and the committee will take those into consideration with regard to establishing a rate.

Seshi shared that as of the PDC’s last meeting they have 6 volunteers working under her chairmanship. Seshi will check on their memberships

Discussion ensued regarding conflicts of dates for SCRID workshops with other events. It was agreed that not all conflicts can be avoided.

Taylor will be sending information from presenters that have contacted her.

1. d.      LFMB D’Addario stated that information for the scholarships and nominations has been sent to the Webmaster, Crouse, however the old information is still posted to the website. Taylor suggests she resend the information to Crouse to post the information as a reminder.

A request was made to have the scholarship information emailed out to the board and chairs. D’Addario will send them.

A request was made to have the report for the committee include current works, works to be done in the future and works completed. D’Addario agreed to change the format of her reports.

   IX.       Regional Representative Reports

     X.      Old Business

a.       None.

   XI.      New Business

None

 XII.      Announcements

XIII.      Adjourn .  With no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:52 PM.

Robin Taylor

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