October 2021 PPDB Meeting Minutes
8:05-8:10 Call to Order: Tammy Kitterman 8:00 Conflicts: None given Present: Tammy Kitterman, Sandra Salerno, Johnine Bickauskis, Lisa Lopatofsky, Patti McGowan, Meg Meyers, Gordon Boe, Julia Murray, special advisor Juli Baumgarner Molly Black excused Approval of June and September Minutes: June - Patti motioned, Lisa seconded, all in favor September - Patti motioned, Lisa seconded, all in favor Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe Lisa motioned to approve, Patti seconded, all in favor COMMITTEE UPDATES: 8:10-8:20 *All committee action plans are saved to the Google Share drive* Membership (Tammy Kitterman, Patti McGown, Sandra Salerno) Tammy sent a “Talents and Inventory” google form for us to complete and send back to her. She will also share the form with all new PPDB general members. Outreach (Patti McGowan, Molly Black, Sandra Salerno, Johnine Bickauskas, Lisa Lopatofsky) Fundraising (Johnine Bickauskas, Lisa Lopatofsky, Julia Murray) OLD BUSINESS: 8:20-8:30
GOOD OF THE ORDER: 8:55-9:00
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Minutes of September 13, 2021 Meeting President Tammy Kitterman brought the meeting to order at 7 PM. Present: Tammy Kitterman, Lisa Lopatofsky, Sandra Salerno, Gordon Boe, Patti McGowan, Juli Baumgarner, Julia Murray, Molly Black, Johnine Bickauskas Excused Absence: Meghan Meyers Guest: Rhonda Beach Tyree There were no conflicts to the Agenda for the evening. Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe Tammy requested a motion be made to accept the May through July Treasurer’s Report. Motion made by Lisa L. and seconded by Patti M. Motion Approved. Tammy requested that a motion be made to accept the August Treasurer’s Report. Motion was made by Molly B. and seconded by Lisa L. Motion Approved. Tammy will follow-up with Julia to explain motions/voting. The meeting was then turned over to Rhonda Tyree to continue with Strategic Planning. Work was conducted to come to consensus over Belief and Vision Statements and Organizational Long Term Goals. Motion was made by Gordon to continue with one more meeting in November with Rhonda. This will be a follow-up to our Action Planning/writing exercise through Committee work. Motion was seconded by Lisa L. Motion Carried. Meeting Adjourned 9 PM June 2021 PPDB Meeting Minutes
Call to Order: 8:04 PM Conflicts for the agenda: none stated Present: Molly Black, Lisa Lopatofsky, Patti McGowan, Juli Baumgarner (special advisor), Sandra Salerno, Johnine Bickauskas Excused absence: Gordon Boe, Tammy Kitterman Approval of May 2021 Minutes: Molly Motioned to approve, Johnine seconded, all were in favor of approving. Treasurer!s Report: Gordon Boe COMMITTEE UPDATES: Membership – Dennis family new membership Outreach – Patti McGowan/Molly Black – updated PPT for outreach purposes, will be used for FLC What’s the Difference? Presentation Fundraising – Gordon Boe and Johnine Bickauskas - no update Nominations – Molly Black – We are pleased to welcome Julia Murray as a guest to our meetings until July when she will reach age 18 and can be officially voted on as a board member. A vote was taken to approve Meghan Myers to the board, all present were YES votes. NEW BUSINESS: 1.Onboarding - need to choose a date in July or August to onboard the new board members. 2.Website is down- Tammy is working on this. 3.Only one application was received for the FLC childcare stipend. 4. We agreed to offer $100 worth of gift cards (4 $25 gift cards) as a prize for trivia during the Family Learning Conference. All were in favor. OLD BUSINESS: 1. Facebook/IG/Twitter - no updates 2. Collaboration with John Reiman - We will table this until the fall. 3. FLC - Only 1 application was received for the FLC childcare stipend. 4. Strategic Planning - The steering committee is working and will update the full board at a later date. GOOD OF THE ORDER: PPDB will be sending condolences to the family of Joe McNolty. ADJOURNED: 9:15 PM May 2021 PPDB Meeting Minutes
Call to Order: 8:00 PM by president Tammy Kitterman Present: Tammy Kitterman, Johnine Bickauskas, Julia Murray, Patti McGowan, Molly Black, Sandra Salerno, Special Advisor Juli Baumgarner, Gordon Boe, Lisa Lopatofsky Guest: Rhonda Tyree Approval of April 2021 Minutes: Lisa L. motioned, Gordon B. seconded, all in favor of approving Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe Lisa motioned to approve, Johnine seconded, all in favor of approving April 2021 treasurer’s report. COMMITTEE UPDATES: Membership – Tammy Kitterman - One new member for the month of April Outreach – Patti McGowan/Molly Black – Working closely with Sandra, Lisa, and Johnine to prepare the presentation for FLC. Molly will send the agenda to the board along with the link to register for FLC. Fundraising – Gordon Boe and Johnine Bickauskas - Discussion tabled until completion of strategic planning. Nominations – Molly Black – We are pleased to welcome Julia Murray as a guest to our meetings until July when she will reach age 18 and can be officially voted on as a board member. Meghan Myers is working on her 2 letters of recommendations and we plan to vote on her application at the upcoming June meeting. NEW BUSINESS: 1. Strategic Planning - Rhonda Tyree was introduced at the beginning of the meeting and provided a summary of her offering as a consultant for the strategic planning related to PPDB. She has kindly offered to charge us only for the face to face hours and the preparations and meeting follow up will be provided pro-bono. She asked us to identify 3 board members who would be interested in forming a steering committee. Johnine, Lisa, Moly, and Juli will be joining the steering committee. Gordon motioned to approve to spend $500 on 4 hours of strategic planning. Sandra Seconded and all were in favor and the motion passed. Strategic planning will take place in August. OLD BUSINESS: 1. Facebook/IG/Twitter - Tammy is waiting to receive government docs to add the Facebook page as a non profit fundraiser. 2. Collaboration with John Reiman - We will table this until the fall. John has offered to provide a workshop for the PPDB membership related to caregiver self compassion. 3. FLC - The board voted on allocating a one time $100 stipend to the first 25 PPDB member families who request this to be used as childcare for their dependent who experiences deaf blindness so they may attend the virtual conference. Gordon motioned, Lisa seconded, and all were in favor of passing this. Lisa has created a google document for the families to use to apply. This will be shared on the Facebook and Listserv page and is only available to current members. The free memberships will be placed on hold until after the FLC in June. GOOD OF THE ORDER: Gordon B. Shared a very touching poem with the group. ADJOURNED: 9:20 PM Respectfully Submitted, Sandra Salerno PPDB Secretary PPDB April 2021 Meeting Minutes
Call to Order: 8:05 PM Present: Gordon Boe, Lisa Lopatofsky, Johnine Bickauskas, Molly Black, Patti McGowan, Sandra Salerno, Tammy Kitterman, Special advisor - Juli Baumgarner Approval of March 2021 Minutes: Gordon Motioned, Lisa seconded, all in favor, motion passes. Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe Molly motioned to approve the treasurer’s report, Johnine seconded, all in favor, motion passes. COMMITTEE UPDATES: Membership – Tammy Kitterman reported 2 new lifetime members for the month of March! Outreach – Patti McGowan/Molly Black – a. DB Project Family Needs Assessment has been extended to April 15th. b. FLC Session – “What’s the Difference”? Looking for a PPDB Presenter - Johnine, Lisa, and Sandra agreed to present. Fundraising – Gordon Boe and Johnine Bickauskas - no update Nominations – Molly Black – Invited Julia Murray to join our Board Meetings in anticipation of July e-vote. As we may recall, Julia has expressed interest in joining our board but we must hold on this until she is 18 years of age in July 2021. We anticipate two letters of recommendation from Ms. Murray. Additionally, Sandra Salerno invited Meghan Myers to apply to join the board, we are anticipating her application and letters of recommendation. NEW BUSINESS:
OLD BUSINESS: 1. Facebook/IG/Twitter - Tammy and Sandra - no updates 2. Strategic Planning – Looking for a facilitator. Good of the order: No updates ADJOURNED: 9:40 pm Minutes of the March 8, 2021
Call to Order: President, Tammy Kitterman, brought meeting to order at 8:03 PM There were no conflicts of interest expressed with tonight’s agenda. Present: Tammy Kitterman, Sandra Salerno, Lisa Lopatofsky, Johnine Bickauskas, Patti McGowan, Gordon Boe, Molly Black, Juli Baumgarner Approval of February 2021 Minutes: Motion made by Gordon Boe and seconded by Johnine Bickauskas, all approved. Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe reported in February a beginning balance of $7,798.29 with receipts of $100 for lifetime membership from Diana Griffin, minus 2.50 in expenditures from PayPal, leaving a total of $7895.79. For Board knowledge, Gordon also reported that we will have received two more lifetime memberships from John R. and Laura E., which will be deposited and noted in our March Statement. COMMITTEE UPDATES: Membership – Tammy Kitterman - shared the current membership roster and asked Board members to review and consider and reach out to anyone that you might personally invite to join the Board. She is encouraging all Board members to use the Google Suite and upload any reports of Committees hereafter. Outreach – Patti McGowan & Molly Black reported the following (please refer also to the Outreach Report provided in an email and uploaded to the Google Suite): understanding what our members needs should drive what we do and how we meet those needs with available funds, or available support whether monetary or not. The DB Project is currently conducting a Family Needs Survey which should be completed April 1. It is likely this survey will help PPDB, as well, to consider any unmet needs that the Project may not be able to address, but PPDB could. The Outreach Committee recommends waiting until we have those results before we move forward. In the meantime, John Reiman, retired, Cadre staff and psychologist contacted Patti and Molly to consider any supports he might be able to offer. He provided a list of ways to consider, which are noted on the Outreach Report. Juli suggested he might be able to help nicely with our strategic planning. Gordon offered to investigate with Juli this idea, and Molly agreed to act as a liaison and schedule a zoom meeting sometime before the April Board meeting. Fundraising – Gordon Boe and Johnine Bickauskas – Committee has not met and will likely hold off until strategic planning occurs so that we know what we are fundraising to support. Johnine would like to request more members to this committee. It was also suggested that a small pilot program be initiated and Lisa L. had forwarded an example application for review and comment. If you have not yet reviewed the example Application, please do so at the link here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcuBTwBIgwrsjAMxwaZB2MTQArpb4L4JoRvFLwH2hLrINueg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0 PPDB Grant Application Please fill out this form in its entirety. Your application will be reviewed at the next available Board meeting and you will be notified of our decision shortly thereafter. Only one applicant, per household, per year. Making an application does not guarantee that you will receive a grant. If you have any questions, please contact Lisa Lopatofsky at lopatofsy.lisam@gmail.com. Fill out form Nominations Committee – Molly Black - one Board Application has been received from Julia M. – Nominations Review Committee will be recommending Julia to the Board, upon receipt of two letters of support. However, Julia will not be 18 years old until July 20. Therefore, Molly will be in touch with her to let her know we will hold her application and consider it thereafter. Tammy has researched and confirmed that Board members of non-profits must be of age. She will be invited to participate in any committees or witness Board meetings prior to any Board appointment. NEW BUSINESS: None OLD BUSINESS: 1.Facebook/IG/Twitter - Tammy and Sandra have been working to conclude our social media launches. Tammy is working to migrate our current FB page to a public Non-Profit page so that we might utilize a donation button. 2.Strategic Planning – see notes above under Outreach Committee. Juli and Gordon to speak to John Reiman for possible facilitation of this planning. GOOD OF THE ORDER: Nothing ADJOURNED: Meeting adjourned at 9:21 PM Respectfully submitted, Molly Black, substitute note taker on behalf of Sandra Salerno, Secretary PPDB February 2021 Minutes
(Annual Membership Meeting) Call to Order: 8:04 PM Present: Julia Murray (general member) Juli Baumgarner, Molly Black, Johnine Bickauskas, Tammy Kitterman, Gordon Boe, Lisa Lopatofsky, Sandra Salerno, Patti McGowan Approval of January 2021 Minutes: Molly motioned, Lisa seconded, motion passes. Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe COMMITTEE UPDATES: Membership – Tammy Kitterman - There are currently 49 active memberships. We encourage new families to sign up though the donation received to apply toward new annual memberships. Outreach – Patti McGowan -
Fundraising – Gordon Boe and Johnine Bickauskas - Tammy set up Pennsylvania Partnership for the deaf blind as a non profit with Amazon Smiles. We discussed ideas such as a virtual run or t-shirt sales. The committee will meet this month to discuss more. Nominations – Molly Black - Call went out on February 1st to encourage general members to apply to become board members. The officer positions of Treasurer, VP, and special advisor are all up for renewal and these individuals have graciously agreed to continue to serve in the position unless there is interest expressed from others to run for these positions. NEW BUSINESS: Strategic Planning – Juli Baumgarner
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OLD BUSINESS: I/G and Twitter Sandra has set up, we need to link up with the Facebook account. We would like to know how the general membership uses social media and what type of content they would like to see from PPDB. Sandra to set up a time with Tammy to link the accounts. GOOD OF THE ORDER: Thank you Julia Murray for attending! We encourage you to apply for a board position if you are interested. ADJOURNED: 9:04 PM PPDB January 2021 Meeting Minutes
Call to Order: Tammy Kitterman at 8:04 PM Present: Tammy Kitterman, Molly Black, Sandra Salerno, Lisa Lopatofsky, Johnine Bickauskas, Juli Baumgarner Excused Absence: Gordon Boe, Patti McGowan Approval of November Minutes: Lisa motioned, Molly seconded, all in favor to pass 6/0. Committee Updates Outreach – Beautiful holiday greeting cards were sent to all PPDB members. We discussed possibility of member buddies, reaching out to other PPDB families to do a virtual check-in. We also discussed gifting family memberships to new families. Fundraising – No updates Nominations – Discussed in new business #2 below NEW Business:
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Minutes of the November 9, 2020 Meeting Call to Order – Tammy 8:00 PM Present: Molly Black, Tammy Kitterman, Patti McGowan, Lisa Lopatofsky, Johnine Bickauskas, Sandra Salerno Excused Absence: Gordon Boe, Juli Baumgarner Approval of October Minutes – Motion to approve Lisa, Seconded by Patti, all in favor Treasurer’s report - Gordon Sent treasurer’s report by email. Molly explained that our Logo Graphic Artist, Brandon O’Neill, never received the check written to pay his invoice. She used Venmo to pay him, and Gordon reimbursed Molly. The check is still missing in the mail, and Brandon agreed to destroy it if ever received. It was agreed not to stop payment because of a $30.00 bank service charge since it will be void in 90 days. Motion to approve the Treasuer’s report was made by Patti, Lisa seconded, all in favor Committee Updates (If any) Fundraising – Gordon, Johnine - No new update but we need to add Fundraising as a January agenda topic with Juli Membership – Patti & Tammy - December 1st do a blast to update what we have done - put on Facebook and ListServ Outreach – Molly & Patti – Brochure/update; Podcast – The Healing Center Last version of brochure - Molly sent updated Logo and brochure pictures and Barb Gilligan at PaTTAN will be working to get final version to us soon. Hoping to have it completed to include in large mailing being done by the Project. Podcast - Patti, Molly, and Tammy did a podcast for the Healing Center - They referred to PPDB as a partnership which was very reassuring to our group. We will invite The Healing Center staff to join us when we are able to socially gather again. Nomination – Molly - she wants us to grow the board (perhaps up to 11 members?) Please be considering what members we should be recruiting when nomination season begins again in February. New Business:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=8ywVl24Lcms Old Business: A. Strategic Planning – Juli has a meeting planned on 2 pm on November 13 with NFADB, Lisa plans to attend. If interested in joining the meeting, please contact Juli. B. Holiday Mailing – Lisa & Johnine – Lisa will re- send she did not receive the colored picture in the mail. C. Instagram/Twitter – Sandra - Tammy is available for next two weeks to get in touch to begin setting these up for our organization. Good of the Order: No additional comments. Adjournment: 8:21 PM |
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