MINUTES
October
5,
2011 1:00
PM – 3:00 PM
Members Present: Kristen Connors, 2nd Vice Chair; Rick
Costa, Chairperson;
Anna Liebenow, NAC Chair; Jack Ringland, Secretary; Heidi
Showstead, 1st
Vice Chair; Mary Wambach.
Staff Present: Camille Pansa, Administrator; Lisel Rockwood,
Assistant to the
Administrator.
Interpreter:
Madeline Auger
1.
Welcome
new
officers: Rick Costa, Chairperson, welcomed all and
congratulated the new
officers.
2.
Appointment
of
new Committee Chairs: Rick Costa made the following appointments: NAC Chair,
Anna Liebenow;
Membership / Nominating Chair, Don Phelps; State Plan Chair,
Liz Graves.
3.
Minutes
of September
7. 2011: previously sent. Jack
Ringland read the minutes. A motion was made by Kristen Connors and seconded by
Anna Liebenow to
accept the minutes as written. Vote
passed unanimously.
4.
Review November / December 2011 calendar: The November scheduled meetings are as follows: Needs
Assessment
Committee (NAC) – Wednesday, November 9th, 1:00
p.m. – 3:00 p.m.; Executive
Committee – Wednesday, November 16th, 1:00 p.m. –
3:00 p.m. There
will not be an Executive meeting in
December. The December meetings are as follows: quarterly
Council meeting –
Wednesday, December 7th; NAC – Wednesday, December
14th.
The snow date for the quarterly will be Friday, December 16th.
5.
Review of annual meeting: The annual
meeting was
discussed. Though it lacked the overall feeling of previous
annual meetings,
the food was good and the meeting was positive with good
discussions and
information.
6.
Council awards: Barbara Rozul and Tony
Pierre were not in
attendance to accept their service awards. The plaques will be
mailed to them.
A service award was presented to Mary Wambach.
7.
Chairperson’s report: Rick Costa
stated that he was
honored to serve as Chair of the RISILC. He thanked Mary
Wambach and Liz Graves
for their past Council work.
8.
Finance Committee Report/signature cards: previously sent. The procedure for new bank signers and
projected cost
for the NAC survey were discussed. Rick Costa cautioned the
use of the word
“surplus” as the carryover funds are necessary for the third
year of the
level-funded budget and should not be considered “extra” or
“unused” funds.
9.
Needs Assessment Committee report:
previously
sent. Anna Liebenow thanked all for presenting her with the
Help and Hope
Award. She stated that the NAC will be meeting again with Sue
Babin (DDC) to
review the graphic/simple language translation.
10.Membership/Nominating
Committee
report: Camille Pansa stated that
she has had several
inquiries from volunteers. She noted that the ServeRI ad
placed in the
September 26th Sunday paper was not correct and
included misleading
information. A new ad will run on the last Sunday in October.
Margaret Molloy
has joined the NAC Committee and Camille also has two upcoming
interviews
scheduled with potential volunteers.
11.
State
Plan/704 Report Committee report: The
committee will
meet on October 26th to review the 704 report and
assign sections.
12. Webinar/Conference
reports: Kristen Connors reported on the Employment
First Summit and Heidi
Showstead reported on the PAL conference. The IL Conference
will take place in
May 2012.
13. Old
Business/new
business: none.
Jack
Ringland
Secretary