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Far North Regional Membership Meeting and Election of Director:
Minutes from Far North Annual Membership Meeting June 5th 2010 9:30 – 12:30 pm
United Methodist Church 544N Shasta Street, Willows CA
Registration 9:00 am
OPEN MIKE 9 am – 9:30 am
6 community members spoke to a variety of personal and services related topics
1. Welcome: Joyce Ott Regional Coordinator 9:30 am
a) Elect a Chair and Secretary from the membership for the day 9:35 am
Rob Chittenden from Humboldt County was selected by consensus as Chair and Jill Ward was selected by consensus as secretary for the meeting.
2. Rob called the Meeting to Order at 9:45 am A total of 57 signed the attendance sheet from 12 counties Meeting the quorum for the Region
a) Network Annual Report: Sharon Kuehn:
Executive Director: spoke to the current focus is to identify the leadership in each
county to so the Network is working with a team and has a connection to the 56
counties in the state. Sharon acknowledged and expressed her gratitude from the
support of the Board and staff who sustained the Network over the year. A special thank you went to Carole Ford who spent many volunteer hours to support the organization and the Regional Forums. She also was humbled by the warm welcome she has received from the membership and the opportunity to speak to and hear from the
membership and work with them to set up ways to support their direction for the
Network. Sharon also identified and explained the many funding sources that support the Networks projects.
b) Board Committee Reports Carole Ford, Kate Howe, And Two Feathers:
Carole Ford, Vice Chair, Lake County, Elected Director (2008-2010)
spoke to the committees she serves on as chair. The annual statewide & regional
Forum trainings and serve as vice chair on the executive Committee for 2 years. The
recommendation to the organization is to looking for funding to support the
communication of the members with the Board. To also to develop affiliates as one way the individual voice speaks as a group that will be brought to the full Board of Direct at the state level. We want the opportunity to properly represent the membership as a whole and provide the support that is needed based on their voice as a statewide group.
Kate Howe, Mendocino County, Appointed Director (2008- 2010) Served on the Cultural
Competency Committee provided a workshop on drumming. Her recommendation for the new board member was around creativity to find a way to participate when you have limited resources and access to the phone calls and computer connections when you live in rural areas. Communications is very important to stay involved with the projects or whatever is happening statewide and in the region.
Two Feathers, Mendocino County , Elected Director, (2009- 2011) he is Chair of the Cultural company committee, we did an ethnic server to get the makeup of our membership to complete one of Our “deliverables” to the funding source. The next question was the unserved and underserved populations? He started doing his own outreach with the limited resource (Stanford and Davis) and reported we had a very success outreach that meet another “deliverable” for the organization. Two Feathers is also on the Governance Committee. His recommendation is to do your homework and look to your peers for information and education to see what and where Regional Directors could help move the organization to meet its values, mission and goals.
c) Regional Coordinators Report Joyce Ott Far North Coordinator
Joyce spoke to the web page which was the project selected. Provided copies of the current page and is developing a list with Joe Mortz with a contact in each county to outreach and share information on the web page. There are 9 counties currently participating with others to volunteer to outreach and be part of a Regional Outreach Team. Joyce presented documents on 2009 Annual report to the Department of Mental Health (DMH) and one on the notes from the Annual Membership Meeting and Election from last year’s meeting.
BREAK 9:50 -10 am
3. Election of Officer (2 yrs) & Two Alternate (1 yr) 10:00 – 11 am
Anyone interested in running for the CNMHC Board of Directors
Election Process:
There were two tutorials of the election process along with the documents on the expectations for running for a CNMHC position on the Board of Directors representing the Far North Region. One presentation was the day before the election and another was the day of the meeting for those that were new on day two. Some of the handouts included “Excerpts from, the CNMHC Bylaws Article 2: Purposes; Mission Statement and Objectives and Purpose ; Article 6 , Directors Roles and Duties. Two Feathers reviewed the process for counting the votes and also presented a Governance Committee handout that explained the concept in writing.
Nominations:
Five people were nominated from the floor and three accepted the nominations and spoke to their experience and hopes for the Network if they were elected. The three names were placed on a large poster for all to see. Each member was requested go to the next room during lunch to select by written ballet their individual choice.
Running for Far North Director:
Carole Underwood, Trinity County
Iris Sanders, Shasta County
Lillian Bond, Lake County
Regional Project: The Chair went over the process for selection and voting on the regional project.,
14 suggestions were made by the group. The top 5 were (in no order)
1) Network to Develop a plan to help communities for people coming out of facilities
2) Expand Cultural Competency project presented in the FN regional meeting on Drumming to
the other areas of the region.
3) Work in Each County to Develop a Local Affiliate
4) Advocate/ develop Clients To get other services besides dental. Like: Vision, Podiatry and
Chiropractic Services
5) Advocate/Develop Clients to get Dental Care
Working Lunch Box Lunch Room #2
11:30 - 12 pm
Voting: Room #1 for Directors and Room #2 for Project Room 1 The selection of one Regional Director and two Alturnates by ballet Room 2 Selection of 2010 Regional Project using Easel list and applying colored sticky dots
Break Voting Panel count votes: Filed Cord and Member at Large count Project dots
Chair Announce the new Regional Director and two Alturnates and Region Project 12 - 12:15pm
Running for Regional Director that received the most votes:
Iris Sanders, 2010-2012 , Lillian Bond, Fist Alternate, Carol Underwood, Second Alternate
The Regional Project that received the most votes was number 3
“Work in Each County to Develop a Local Affiliate to do Outreach.”
The process for how to do this project will be developed by:
Using suggestions from the Far North Web page link on the CNMHC Homepage and the contacts
developed in each county through a variety of community outreach tools and personal contacts. 9
of the 16 counties have already identified a contact at the Regional Forum in Willows
Chair adjourned the meeting at 12:30
Note taker Joyce Ott Date ____June 18th , 2010 _______