PPDB Meeting Minutes April 11, 2022
Call to Order: Tammy Kitterman, President, brought the meeting to order at 8:01 Conflicts: There were no conflicts to the agenda indicated by the Board members in attendance. Present: Tammy Kitterman, Lisa Lopatofsky, Johnine Bickauskas, Patti McGowan, Gordon Boe, Juli Baumgarner, Julia Murray, Molly Black Excused: Sandra Salerno and Meghan Myers Approval of March Minutes: Motion to approve made by Gordon Boe Seconded by Lisa Lopatofsky All approved – Motion passed Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe Tammy requested that Gordon send a 1099 Form to Rhonda Tyree for her strategic planning work. Gordon questioned whether it is necessary for amounts under $600. Tammy will investigate, but we may want to send regardless. Since the March report, received a donation of $392.00 from Hearing Loss Association’s Walk for Hearing – thank you to Lisa Lopatofsky for participating and naming PPDB as a recipient of these efforts! Gordon asked how to manage the payment to “Cole and Friends” as he received the invoice. Tammy made a motion to postdate a check for the invoice and sent to Lisa Lopatofsky to hold and give to the Presenter at Family Learning Conference on behalf of PPDB. Gordon seconded that motion and all approved. Motion passed. Motion to approve the Treasurer’s report made by Lisa Lopatofsky Seconded by Julia Murray All approved, motion passed. *All committee action plans are in the shared drive Membership (Tammy Kitterman, Patti McGowan, Sandra Salerno) Patti and Tammy reported that there remain thirteen free memberships and asked the Board to consider how we might use these memberships. They have asked the Board to consider:
Outreach (Patti McGowan, Molly Black, Sandra Salerno, Johnine Bickauskas)
Fundraising (Johnine Bickauskas, Lisa Lopatofsky, Julia Murray) Lisa and committee will start a campaign on Custom-Ink Website (already created a non-profit page that will connect all future projects) and is working on a design for sale. Advocacy (Lisa Lopatofsky, Meg Meyers, Johnine Bickauskas) Nothing currently to report. Committee will consider request to secure four (4) family stories to submit to NFADB in the future. OLD BUSINESS: 8:30-8:40 I/G, Facebook, Twitter Update – Lisa is working with Sandra – nothing new to report other than this will be a work in progress. Nominations Update and Recommendations - Molly, Sandra, Julia Molly shared information about the following candidates. The Nominations Committee highly recommends and requests Board members to go into the Google Drive and read the applications and Letters of Support so that this may be brought to a vote at the May Board meeting. Dixie Stachnik Jessica Lynch (Coffin) Molly indicated that the Office of President is open for nominations and requests that anyone who is interested complete the nominations form or nominate someone to that position. Sandra Salerno has indicated that she has self-nominated and if voted would accept the office of Secretary for another two-year term. A vote will take place at the May meeting. NEW BUSINESS:
GOOD OF THE ORDER: - Nothing reported ADJOURNED: at 8:55 PM Respectfully Submitted, Molly Black On behalf of Sandra Salerno, Secretary PPDB Meeting Minutes- February 2022
8:05-8:10 Call to Order: Tammy Kitterman 8:00 Conflicts: None provided Present: Molly Black, Gordon Boe, Sandra Salerno, Tammy Kitterman, Lisa Lopatofsky, Patti McGowan, Julia Murray, Juli Baumgarner Excused - Johnine Bickauski, Meg Meyers Approval of January Minutes Motioned - Gordon Boe Second - Lisa Lopatofsky All in favor. Treasurer’s Report: Gordon Boe Motioned - Lisa Lopatofsky Second- Molly Black All in favor COMMITTEE UPDATES: 8:10-8:30 *All committee action plans are saved in the shared drive
OLD BUSINESS: 8:30-8:35
GOOD OF THE ORDER: 8:50-8:55 ADJOURNED: 9:00 pm Respectfully Submitted, Sandra Schiffli-Salerno PPDB Secretary 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
PPDB
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 |
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