VMICC Board Meeting 9/9/04
Vashon Youth and Family Services 
Approved 10/4/04

GENERAL:
Jim English called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m.
Board Members present were:  Marilyn Omey, Jim English, Yvonne Kuperberg, Gayle Sommers, Allison Jones, Jack Barbash, Jolene Lamb and Dan Schueler.

Jim welcomed everyone, including the board members present and guests Bong StoDomingo, Jay Becker and Jennie Hodgson.

Board meeting minutes for the July and August 2004 meetings were approved.  

TREASURER’S REPORT:
Jolene Lamb talked about a difficulty with the budget having to do with the insurance policy, because of increases in the payments. We will need to adjust the budget somewhat to make up for the budgeting problem.   Bong StoDomingo said that it would be ok to adjust the budget to cover the problem without submitting a revised budget to the County.  Bong will confirm the changes tomorrow to move enough money from the Outreach budget to Insurance budget.   We still have  more than $5000 in our budget as of August 31.  A motion was made and passed to accept the change of the budget to meet the needs of the Insurance coverage.  The motion will be brought up for a vote at the September General Meeting for approval.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Jim English said that Chautauqua was once again available for General Meetings.  Jim will have to be in Colorado during the next meeting, so Gayle Sommers will chair the meeting.   The land use meeting will be on Wednesday, the 15th at the Land Trust Building at 7PM to discuss the progress they've made on resource inventory mapping with the Land Trust and Stewards.   

PUBLIC COMMENT: 
none

ROUTINE BUSINESS:  
Public Safety Committee – Allison Jones has created an online meeting format by creating an email list.  They will be continuing to work with the King County Sheriff folks to develop the dialog begun earlier.  Allison Jones will be continuing to publish the Firearm Safety document that the committee has produced in the past.

Transportation Committee – Marilyn Omey said that the Island Wide Transportation Survey has been sent to the printer and will be distributed very soon.  There will be a followup telephone survey to validate the results.  The survey will be carried out from September 16th to the 20th.  Results will be compiled after that and should be available by the October 5 Ferry Advisory Committee meeting.  The committee will be meeting at 7PM at McMurray on Monday Sept 27.

Joan Sells talked about the VMICC/Business Retreat postponement.  It will be held on the 2nd Monday of one of the upcoming months, perhaps November.  Joan talked a bit about the makeup of the people attending the retreat.  Hopefully it will include both new and old members of the board as well as a number of representatives of some of the Island's businesses.  Problem areas for businesses will be discussed and possibly a new ad-hoc committee might be formed to deal with the problems.

Jennie Hodgson talked about the work of the Board Nomination Committee.  The committee consists of Jennie, Jake Jacobovitch and Lee Miller.  They will be recruiting people who might be interested in running for a Board position.  Some of the people at the meeting said they were interested in running again, and a few said they were still undecided about running.  We also talked about the election process itself.  Jay Becker has been looking into the process and distributed some materials that might work as prototypes for the election.  Marilyn Omey made a motion to accept the budget that Jay Becker supplied with a cost of $1965.  With a friendly amendment being made to try to find an alternative to paying a CPA $500 to count the ballots.  The motion was seconded and passed.   The motion will need to be passed at the general meeting as well. 

General Meeting Agenda planning

The motions to change the budget and to approve the budget for the election will be considered as soon as a quorum is present. 

King County Health and Human Services will be making a presentation.  Jackie Maclean will be making the presentation for the County.  She'll be talking about the effect of the County's budget cutting on social service agencies. 

Tom Bangasser might not be able to be present at the September meeting to present his program about the Rainbow Project.    

Jay Becker will be talking about the election process.

Joan Sells said that she will no longer be available to be the point person for Nero with the Vashon Disaster Preparedness Coalition.

We had a discussion about the issues surrounding the Fire Department and it's disputes with the Island Amateur Radio Club and IRFL.  It was determined that Allison Jones will be getting in touch with someone at Dow Constantine's office to see if they can help mediate the dispute(s.)  

OTHER

Meeting was adjourned at 9:28PM.


VMICC Executive Board Members:  Jim English, President; Gayle Sommers, VP; Marilyn Omey, Secretary; Jolene Lamb, Treasurer; Dan Schueler, Clerk of the Council; Allison Jones; Jack Barbash; Yvonne Kuperberg; Marilyn Omey, Joan Sells.

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