Easy Does It
Board of Directors Meeting
Minutes for July 26, 2001

Present: Jonah Markowitz, Leslie Gordon, Hale Zukas, Peter Trier, Jonathan Gold, Rose Acampora, Erin Harbaug, Nicholas Feldman, Winston Ching, Flor Chahua, Jesse Townley, Tony Acampora

Meeting started at 7:50 p.m.

Public Comments
None

Announcements
Jonah:
· noon, July 27 at Sprawl Plaza commemorating ADA anniversary; speakers include Jan Garret
· Transportation: DRA sending out form asking riders to document experiences with Paratransit; rides will be booked as you make reservation rather than at the end of the day
· I like our name as it is now and would like to see us in Solano Stroll and How Berkeley Can You Be for promotional purposes.
Jesse
· Portland Oregon radio station, KBOO, Aug 14, 6 - 8pm, South Berkeley Library, MLK and Russell, about radio regulations as it pertains to free speech

Minutes
· Change date of minutes to June 28, 2001
· Change spelling of Denise's name to Glagald
· Change spelling of Gina's name to Sassoon
· Add Michael Delacour to list of attendees
· Change Leslie Johnson to Kimberlia Johnson
· Change following info on meeting with Mr. Kamalarz to read: Board members were unhappy with the decision to make co-payment $10 per hour for all clients…. A letter that was sent to clients with the $10 rate was read aloud and more discussion followed.
· Add July 26th to the date set for next meeting.
Jesse voted to approve minutes with changes; Jonathan seconded. Motion passed.

Agenda
Leslie proposes board goes into Executive Session at 8:45 p.m.; Peter makes motion, Jonah seconded, Motion passes.
Recruitment of Board Members and Plaque for Former Executive is cut from agenda; Database improvements and insurance in ED report; President's report to go after Executive Director Report
Jonathan makes motion to approve agenda; Peter seconded. Motion approved.

Executive Directors Report
There followed a lengthy discussion on the weekend manager position including debate on how the job description was arrived at, how and who would carry the job out.
During the discussion a letter written by Dina and brought by Tony was read out loud by Jonathan. The discussion ended with the following motion made by Peter: Consistant with bylaws and contract the ED is to make decision on weekend supervisor; Jesse seconded motion; Jonah added friendly amendment: concerns expressed tonight to be taken into account; Leslie calls question; Jonathan & Hale abstain; 4 votes, 2 abstentions; Motion passes.

There followed a lengthy discussion on B&G answering service which included questions about their treatment of clients with speech impairments; Hale pointed out that B&G bill has not gone down even though we use them 40% less; Rose and Nicolas have meeting with representative from B&G next week to go over bill; Peter suggested ED/Rose pay them what they think they owe them.

ED requested that he be allowed to purchase $595.00 software to access computer easier. Leslie advised him to wait until his employment contract was decided upon.

Rose asked if vision could be added to employee insurance coverage, stating that it would cost $8 per month per employee; Peter asked if EDI has 4 or 5 thousand extra in the budget; Rose said that Jay said there was; Peter made motion that she present info to treasurer and if she can get Hale to sign off on it then it's okay; Jonah seconded motion; Motion passed.

President's Report
Leslie suggested changing August meeting to August 16 and moving September meeting to September 20. Jonathan made motion to change August and September meetings to August 16 and September 20; Peter seconded; Motion passed

Jonathan makes motion to go into Executive Session; Jonah seconded.
Motion passed.