STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT: Jill Hall Motion to approve the minutes from June 20, 2006 was made by George G. Mary B. seconded the motion. Motion carried. TREASURER'S REPORT: A report for the month of June was presented. Copies will be forwarded to the city's Mayor and Council and to all board members. All members present voted to accept the treasurer’s report.
STANDING COMMITTEES: A. Budget: The 2006-2007 budget was reviewed. The budget had some corrections made to it and Rusty will distribute a revised budget at the next meeting. George G. made a motion to approve the budget with corrections. Mary B. seconded the motion. Motion carried. B. Ways & Means: No report. C. Bingo: No report. D. Correspondence/Memorial: Betty Ball received four deceased notices. No memorial donations were received in June. The board agreed that Betty should send condolence cards to the families of the deceased. Dr. Costa was not at the last board meeting due to her health. Betty will send a thank you from the board thanking her for her hard work for RSI. E. Gift Shop: In the month of June the Gift Shop made $997.18. The consignors were paid $391.31. Gift Shop netted $565.14. F. Thrift Shop: The Thrift Shop netted $696.43. G. Publicity: No Report. H. Senior Citizens Commission: We are trying to put together an Aging in Place program for Senior Services in Twinbrook. It will be to help the seniors who live on their own with handy man type maintenance. We just started planning the pilot project last month. It is envisioned as a co-op using teens in the neighborhood for lawn maintenance and vendors in the area for heating, air conditioning, plumbers, roofers, etc. to help costs down. This is to help keep seniors in their homes. I. Hispanic Services Report: We are planning for Hispanic Heritage Month. There will be a celebration on September 28 and the country is Mexico. We will have a Mariachi Band and Mexican food and dancing. The lunch will be $10.00. J. Asian Services Report: No Report.
NEW BUSINESS: The Carnation Players asked if RSI would purchase five lapel microphones for use on the stage since the new system in the curtains was not loud enough for seniors to hear them. Lapel microphones would run from $595.00 to $689.00 each. We need to check the new system in the curtains before we purchase new microphones. Ron will call Betty Hughes son and ask him to check it out.
OLD BUSINESS: Ron spoke with John Austin about two questions the board had regarding our endowment fund. 1. What would he suggest we do to defray his fee? John said he would answer that once RSI made a commitment to his company. 2. Since he is running for a delegate position would he continue with the endowment fund if he wins the election? John said he will continue to work. George will speak with Rick Edelman’s office to see if they can get RSI a better rate than John Austin. Steve Chappell’s fee was .8% and John Austin’s is 1.85%. Cindy Caswell works on commission only – no activity – no fee. If Rick Edelman’s office cannot do any better that John Austin’s, RSI will work with John Austin. Rusty distributed a copy of the Financial Network Fund. We have made money in all five funds. We currently have $103,000.00 and began with $100,000.00. New member badges were ordered but there was a delay in receiving them.
STAFF REPORT: We had difficulty with the July newsletter getting out on time to our members. Please continue to spread the word that it was due to errors beyond our control and apologize for it being late. It will not happen again. The post office has 10 days to mail out bulk mail and we also had problems with getting the newsletter printed by the City’s Graphics due to vacations and staff on medical leave. We have changed our procedures so we will get the newsletter to Graphics by the first day of the previous month. The downside of this is there will be information that is outdated. We would like to encourage people to look at the website to read the newsletter if they want to learn about the programs before their newsletter arrives in the mail. If you hear people complaining please tell them what happened. We only received 1 formal complaint, but a number of people wondered why the newsletter was delayed. The results of the satisfaction survey have been coded. We received 535 surveys. The closed ended answers are in the August newsletter and the opened ended answers will be discussed in future newsletters. The Senior Services Task Force is at the end of writing the report. RSI will have an opportunity to review it and then it will go to the Mayor and Council. We are working on ideas for the 25th Anniversary Party in the month of April 2007. The actual anniversary date is April 18. Jill and Lorraine will work with the City’s communication team to discuss ways to expand awareness. We will advertise in the newsletter for volunteers to help with the celebration.
We will be meeting with city staff to discuss adding more parking spaces to the Center and to develop the specs. Jill passed out a comparison of how much profit was made at past bazaars. Montgomery County Community Foundation has grants available for one-time projects. If you know of any projects please see Jill and she will give you the information. The grant requests are due in three weeks.
The volunteer handbook data will be organized and sent to graphics for printing.
The Meeting was adjourned at 2:37pm. The next regular board meeting will be held on August 24 at 1:00 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN DATE).
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