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Board of Directors of the Oshkosh Seniors Center
Meeting Minutes- Monday November 28, 2005
Attendance
: Board members: Bill McCarthy; Mary Luepke; Kristin Cimera; Esther Stegemann; Ralph
Nielsen; Mona Walker; Don Wolter; Barbara Ruedinger; Phyl Hill; AJ Anand and Toni Anand. Excused
member: Staff Members: Sue Kreibich, Aging Services Manager; Bobbie Luft, Center Office Assistant;
Judy Brewer Center Supervisor; Paula Stephens Center Nurse, Molly Butz Program Coordinator Linda
Verwiel Marketing Coordinator and Human Service Intern Natalie.
President Bill McCarthy called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m.
REPORTS:
Board President
No Report
Aging Services Manager
: Sue Kreibich introduced UW-O Human Service student Natalie. She will be
working at the Center 145 hours, completing them by mid January. The Day Services program is going
well; the experience and the participants have been warm and friendly. More publicity will be
forthcoming from Lutheran Social Services, to educate the public that the Center is a separate service
from the Day Service. After the first of the year they will be having more open houses. Sue explained
that LSS approached the Center and asked if there was room space available and asked if we were
interested in talking with them. Center has been hoping to add the position of a Senior Connections
person and having LSS here has made that possible. A one-year contract was signed from October 15,
2005 to October 15, 2006. Molly, Paula and Sue met Affinity Health Systems representatives to discuss
additional ways that we might work together. The Center has needs and Affinity has the expertise. The
Center gave Affinity suggestions as to what they hoped to receive from them. We are now waiting to
hear back from them.
Oshkosh Committee on Aging:
No Report
Executive Committee:
No Report
Facilities/Maintenance:
No Report
Finance:
No Report
Friends:
Barb Ruedinger stated that there are currently 768 members of the Friends. The membership to
join is $15 for a single person or $20 for a couple. The membership includes have the Senior Doings
delivered to the members home and receiving a 10% discount in the Center’s Gift Shop. 1/3 of the total
membership is Life-time and there are 138 couples as members. There was a mailing sent out to all
members about needing help with Bingo and there has only been one response. Bingo will not be
continuing. Raffles and pull-tabs will still be available through the license. The pull-tabs bring in very
good revenue. Linda Verwiel, Marketing Coordinator will have her hours increased from 15 hours per
week to 25 hours per week. This position is paid for by the Friends of the Oshkosh Seniors Center. Five
hours of Linda’s time will be spent helping the Friends coordinate, schedule and train volunteers. The
Friends do a large part of fund-raising to raise money for the Center, to help with positions and
programming. Another type of fund-raising is the selling of the OCAT cards. The cards are good for one
year and cost $10 with a portion of the proceeds going to the Friends. Other fund-raisers are through
memberships, entertainment books, Tours, Gift Shop and Cameo Shop. There was a large donation
bequested to the Friends from the Esther Splitt Estate trust. The Friends will receive $120,000 to be put
in the Endowment Fund. The Friends are able to take out 5% of the funds per year to assist the Center
with programs. The election of officers for the Friends Board will be in January. AJ Anand suggested to
have a one-page explanation put out about the Friends role at the Center. The greatest share of money
made is turned back to the Center. Carol Helmer played a very important role in the Annex Renovation,
many thanks go out to her.
Health Committee:
Paula Stephens announced that she would be starting a new program in January that
will run six weeks. It will focus on how to get the most out of life while living with a chronic disease.
Nominating:
No report
Personnel:
No Report
Policy:
No Report
Programs:
Molly Butz reported that at the last Program Committee meeting fall programs and winter
games were the topic of discussion. There will be two major fund-raisers; the Run/Walk, which will take
place in May of 2006 and the Badger Band in the spring of 2006. New programs will be introduced in
January. A day of each month will be dedicated to “Women’s Day”. This program is called “You Can!”
Healthy Steps to Healthy Living. This will be a twelve-week workshop, meeting two days per week.
Mondays will be a workshop from 8:30 a.m.-9:30 a.m. and on Fridays there will be a group activity.
Publicity:
No Report
Special Fund Raising:
No Report
Strategic Plan:
No Report
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Old Business:
Bill McCarthy passed around the Committee Report List. The 2 reading of the
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Constitutional Amendment was read. M/S/C, (Nielsen, Stegemann) to adopt the 3 option which reads,
All Board members are on Nominating Committee, excluding the Board President. The motion was
carried 9 to 2. AJ Anand stated he was against the motion because he believes by not allowing people of
the community to join there could be a possibility of restricting greater good potential of individuals.
M/S/C (Hill, Wolter) to adjourn the meeting. It was a unanimous decision to cancel the December
meeting.
Respectfully,
Bobbie Luft, Oshkosh Seniors Center, Office Assistant