ALPENA REGIONAL INTERAGENCY CONSUMER COMMITTEE (RICC)

                       MINUTES FOR MEETING HELD September 30,2009

MEMBERS PRESENT:  Julie Hasse; Margie Hale-Manley; John Donajkowski; LouAnn Warren; Christine DesOrmeau; Maureen Sweet; Deb Hemgesberg ;Ed LaFramboise;  Cheryl Lang; Tom Bunea; Dan MacDonald;

MEMBERS ABSENT:  Bill Ocholik; Donna Morgan; Lorell Whitscell; Ed  Sanderson; Kory LeFebvre ;Peggy Yachasz; Roy Beauchamp;  Crystal London;  Jodie Johnson; Mark Pollard

NOTE TAKER: Maureen Sweet

The meeting was held in Room 102 at the CMH Office.

The meeting was called to order @ 2:10 pm by Christine DesOrmeau filling in for Chair Person Jodie Johnson who did not attend the meeting

Minutes from the August 2009 meeting were reviewed and accepted as written.

Julie reported on the Public Policy/Transportation workshop that she had attended the previous day in Gaylord.   She called to everyone’s attention the Legislative Event to be held in Lansing in February.  A planning session for it will take place on October 12 and talking points are to be submitted by November 1 so to allow sufficient time to review all the materials in time for the January planning meeting. 

Julie said that transportation funding was discussed at the workshop.  With the state budget still undetermined, there is concern that public transportation may lose some of its funding.     The fact that our local TBT is going to be getting 4 new (hybrid) busses which will allow for more possibilities to have set bus routes with bus stops where people can wait for the bus is a positive change for our area both environmentally and in terms of improved transporatation as well , as this will help to make public transportation more accessible to the community.  Any local transportation concerns can be directed to the LAC which RICC member Jodie is a part of.   

There were no teleconference reports to be given .

Margie reviewed the FY09/10 RICC work plan with the group so that everyone would be aware of our goals and objectives for the next fiscal year which begins in October. 

Deb gave an update on Partnership for Freedom.   We are hoping to train more people to be local leaders.   There will be a meeting on October 22 in Grayling for anyone who already is a local leader as well as for anyone who would like to be trained to be one.  Anyone interested in attending the meeting should contact Deb by October 15^th.  Tom, Dan, LouAnn and John expressed an interest in attending the meeting.     

Next on the agenda was the Call Booklets and the need to update the information in them.           

We discussed whether or not we want to move forward with this project to update the information and reprint the booklets.   The consensus was that the Call Booklets are helpful and that we should go ahead with plans to update and reprint them.  Time was then taken to go through the information in the current booklets to make necessary changes,additions and deletions of information.     

The changes will be made and the information compiled and prepared to go to the printer for printing the new copies.   It was decided to keep the current format for the new booklets. 

 Margie reported that she has placed the order for the new RICC brochures with the printer .

The CCT (Creating Change Together) booklets have arrived and are available to anyone who would like one. We may try to read and discuss a section of the booklet at our monthly meetings.    

Last month Margie and Maureen looked through catalogs looking for plaques for the Accessibility Awards that we plan to give out at the awards luncheon which will be held in FY 09/10.  During the luncheon we plan to have a short presentation explaining how the accessibility survey came to be and the criteria we used to do the survey and how these businesses were identified as having good accessibility for people with disabilities. 

The meeting concluded with nominations and elections of new officers.   The election results are as follows: CHAIR: Christine  CO CHAIR:  Margie     ALTERNATE:  Deb.    Maureen will continue on as secretary.                                                                                                            

The meeting adjourned @ 3:30 PM.

Our next meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 28^th @ 2:00PM in Room 102.