American Council of the Blind 62nd Annual Conference and Convention
7/1/2023 8:00 PM

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11261-American Council of the Blind 62nd Annual Conference and Convention 
(American Council of the Blind)
July 1, 2023   8:00 PM

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[Recording in Progress]
	>> This is your streamer, and I copied that we will start the stream at 6:59 precisely.  
	>> Thank you.  
	>> Just so you know, I don't know if you can -- it is distorted a little bit.  
	>> We got it.  Are we any better now, Hershey?
	>> Yeah, that's better.  
	>>  Yes.  
	>> Thank you.  
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	>> Check, check.  
	>> RICK MORIN:  Who is calling?  
	>> Are you ready for the walkers to come in?  
	>> RICK MORIN:  We're ready right now?
	>> Yeah, it is 10 to.  
	>> Did you need me to play the walk song? 
[Music playing] -- the Walk song.  
	>>  Check, check.  
	>> And we do have the stream running.  
	>> Herbie:  That's what Zoom is doing.  
	>> We're going to begin and we're still waiting for our Flack, so we're going to be changing the order just a little bit this evening, but we do need to begin.  
	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the ACB's 2023 Leadership Conference and convention of the American Council of the Blind.  
[Applause]
	>> And we're welcoming in Zoom.  I want to hear them yelling, but they are in the little space where we cannot see them.  ACB Media, Clubhouse, we have Spanish, we have captioning, we have everything, and we have a lot of people right here in Schaumburg, Illinois with us.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> All right.  So the first thing I want to do just for logistical purposes, I want to give you orientation to the room, just in case you need to know where you are.
	So this room is laid out in a landscape mode, and the ballroom is divided into three sections with two central Isles, and the side Isles are narrow and contain lighting equipment.  Please, enter the rows but the center Isles only, and we'll lose you, and Ray said he already was.  Learn from him.  
	There are standing aisles in the each of the fourth, sixth and ninth rows counting under the back of the room.  On the airplane, they say please find the microphone it may be behind you.
	The stage is set at the front of the room and sound equipment at the back of the room.  Water dispensers are located to the back of the room needly to the side of each bank to the doors.  You will not be able toss water on each other, that would not be okay.  [Laughing].  Trash cans will be on each side of the doors.  You know what to do with those.  Put your trash in there.  
	Restrooms, if you need to take a break, we're not taking any breaks.  You think I am kidding, and I am really not.  Exit the ballroom doors to the left foyer, and enter the foyer to the left and bathrooms on the right.  So it is a left, a left, and a right.
	Have we gotten a flag yet?  We are not going get a flag.  Yes, would you do that, and we unfortunately are not going have our flag and our American Legion friends helping us with the flag.  We're really sad about that, but we can do the pledge.  So I would like you all it stand, and the flag, if it were here -- and we all think it is here; right?  And it works for us; right?  And the flag at the front right, and so, let's go ahead with our pledge.
	I pledge of allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America,
	And to the Republic for which it stands, 
	One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and Justice for all!.  
[Applause]
	>> All right.  Play ball, he said, very good.  [Laughing].  No, you can't.  You are not standing right behind me, you can't get away from anything.
	Our National Anthem this evening is going to be sung by Sharon Howerton a member of the Illinois host committee and she's from Chicago, Illinois.  
	O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
	What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming,
	Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
	O'er the ramparts we watch'd were so gallantly streaming?
	And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
	Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
	O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
	O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?!!!
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Thank you.  Thank you.  That was absolutely beautiful, and wonderful, and I appreciate that so much.  Just excellent.  
	All right.  And now, we have greetings from our host committee, President Ray Campbell, and Past President Rachel Schroeder from the Illinois affiliate, and go ahead and come on up, Ray and Rachel, they have something very special for us at the end of their presentation.  
	>> RAY CAMPBELL:  All ready good even, ACB.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	The year was 1994, Chicago Bulls Fans were wondering what their team was going to be after Michael Jordan's first retirement.  Baseball was about to enter into a -- strike that would cancel the World Series.  Zoom is something you did on the Kennedy Express Way in Chicago.  [Laughing].  Especially during rush hour.  Covid?  We weren't worried about that.  1994, it was the last year that ACB held a convention in the state of Illinois!  After all these years we're very grateful to welcome you to the city of Schaumburg, and our hosts have done a ton of hard work and worked hard to put the convention today and we'll name them and they have worked extremely hard and trying to put this together.  We hope you all have a great time while you are here, and if there's anything you can do, please let us know and we'll certainly be the best your stay can possibly be 689 and I will turn it over to the lady who was supposed to do this 3 years ago.  My President of the Illinois Council of the Blind Rachel Schroeder
[Cheers and Applause]

	>> RACHEL SCHROEDER:  Ray is too tall.  [Laughing].  Everybody having a good time!  
[Cheers and Applause]
.  
	Yay, ACB woo hoo!  I was hoping to do this three years ago, we called a dress rehearsal, and we're here doing it again, ICB and American Council of the Blind are so glad you are here to spend a week in the prairie state, the land of Lincoln we had to get him in there somewhere; right?
	>> Yeah
	>> RACHEL SCHROEDER:  Somebody else is waiting to say something here.  
	>> Hello.  Volume decomposition Schaumburg!  I am Delany Schroder.  
	>> RACHEL SCHROEDER:  Turning it over to Ray.  
	>> RAY CAMPBELL:  I have to follow Delany, that's tough.  We have a proclamation from the governor of our state, JB Pritzker -- 
quality of life for ACB people.  And consumer organizations who are blind visually impaired, the State of Illinois is home to people who are greatly improved and people who are blind, visually impaired, and whereas ACB has obtained important advocacy and national organization affiliates and local chapters such as the Federal court ruling that leads to more lights in Chicago.  
	And family and friends will be in Schaumburg Illinois for the ACB ACB's 2023 Leadership Conference from June 20,1993.  And the Illinois Council of the Blind, an affiliate of ACB host the conference and convention.  There JB Pritzker hereby declare June 2023, and all to reflect on the contributions to society, and made by people who are blind and visually impaired, whereas, I seal on my hand, the seal of Illinois, done at the capital in the city of Springfield, this 13th of June, in the year of our Lord, 2023, and the State of Illinois, 225.  Alexa J. Secretary.  
	>> Thank you, Governor Pritzker for that, and I will turn it back to you.  Have a great convention, everybody.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> He's tall.  Honestly!  The only person I know who is so tall I can hardly deal with it after they have been up here is Mr. Yasner from the libraries.   Yasner, yeah, I think he's taller than that.  Keep quiet, you are distracting [Laughing].  I want to say Mr. Pritzker run by Aaron.  Rick manages him in the back, back there.  I am always a little bit worried about what Adam is going to start reading [Laughing] or who he is going to start sounding like.  
	All right.  We're now to my President's Report.  And it is short because I am short -- no.  Because I have only been President for three months, so this should be only take about 12 hours to work for you.
	And seriously, it is been a fascinating and fantastic ride and I have certainly enjoyed this, and it is a cross between an important campaign speech and I am not sure how that works, but I do think we're continue to go make progress in ACB despite so many things happening to us, and the transition process has been really, really great.  
	We have lots to do, and as mentioned in the board, we will be looking at our future convention process and we have two more years for process at conventions, and we're evaluating the data from the last couple of years and also look at the data we receive in the future, but we'll also talk more with our members what they value and what we can do differently.  
	There are a lot of experiments in this, and we appreciate your patience and we will continue to move forward it with all of this.  
	As you know, we're looking in the next year to hire a long term -- nothing it permanent -- Executive Director at ACB.  And I am so grateful to be working with Dan Spoone and I really appreciate his energy, his thoughtfulness, and his care for -- ACB and how everything has kind of grown, but we'll be in the process over the next year of filling the position on a longer term basis because Dan really want planning to do this when he come into office as President and I have been very, very clear I am is not open to that, not for him, but me, from any of us at our age.  
	We'll be doing that and we have a lot of things in our future and I look forward to that future in whatever capacity I will be experiencing with you, it.  
	I will actually move right on with our agenda.  We have a long agenda and every day this week we have a long agenda.  And it is quite challenging because in the process of the way we're doing our voting and some of our business processes, it makes it a little unpredictable and how long things will take.  And we also try and have a meaningful agenda for our conference and general sessions and we have to squish is all together when our business needs time, and spread it out meaningfully.  You will find changes throughout the week on our agenda, we'll let you know as we go.
	I would like to turn it over to our Executive Director Dan Spoone for the report.  If you heard Dan and the staff at the board meeting, you should be already energized and go, and if you were not able to go to the board meeting and weren't able to catch it because you were on that great outing or something, or sleeping, and if you were not there, it will be podcast ton, and when it is, make sure you download it from the ACB podcast, listen it to it because it was really amazing.  I am now turning it over to Dan.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> DAN SPOONE:  I am going to take the mic out of the thing.  Hello, ACB!  
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> I have to tell you, I don't have a lot of prepared remarks tonight because I really want to speak to you from my heart.  Four years ago -- four years ago in rod Chester with my parents listening on a CB radio.  I accepted the position of ACB President.  Since then, it is been four absolutely amazing years.
[Applause]
	And it is been amazing because of all of you.  The strength of our organization is our members.  And you all show it each and every day.  We have done so much over these last four years to grow and change our organization.  And it really, I think has been remarkable.  What our board and our staff has gone through over amazingly turbulent times.  Who knew, just a few months after the Rochester convention find ourselves in the middle of a pandemic.  What were we going to done how was ACB going to move forward?  We came to a fork in a road.  We don't is a convention and do what we normally do, so what did we do?  We did what people in the ACB Family always do.  We figured out how to get it done.
	And we not only did it, we did it in an amazing way.  With two virtual conventions.  The first one I think we had over 2000 people register for, and such pent up demand and get out and socialize and get together.  And we didn't just survive, we thrived.  We really did an amazing, amazing job as an organization.  And our members our board and our staff had so much to do with that.
	I just want to share a few of those highlights, so we went from back to back, virtual conventions and D.C. conferences and finally got back together Omaha with our first hybrid event.  And we as an organization said everybody in this organization gets an individual right to vote whether they are at the convention or not.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	And that's a principle we will never turn back over.  We're all here together and we all have an equal voice.  
	I have to take one really personal privilege and say the person that's been by my side through all of this is my wife, Leslie
[Cheers and Applause]
	She has been an inspiration, she has been there when I needed her for a hug or a kind word, you know, you can ask Brian, Donna, and it's not really easy; right, Deb?  You are starting to ask -- Rick, it is not easy to be a spouse of an ACB President.  There are a lot of calls and turmoil and a lot of exciting opportunities, and Leslie was there for me every step of the way, but she has her own goals in life, and look at how the auctions are flourished other the last four years, absolutely amazing.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	So here we stand.  Everybody has the right to vote now, and if we look what we have done, we put together a program called Traction, and we set quarterly goals, yearly goals, three year plans and five year plans.  We're taking ACB and we are trying to make and create, and I think we have an accountability culture.  We have 9 key cities and programs and services, convention, advocacy, membership services, information referral and peer support, public awareness, scholarship and awards, audio description, management and administration, and resource development.
	We also implemented our five core values, and I think we have lived these each and every day, and we hit it every time we turn around.  Integrity and honesty.  Our word is our bond.  Respect.  Being a welcoming place where we respect each other's values and opinions.  We have seen last week democracy in action with a debate and resolutions and we do did in a respectful way and that's the right way to do it in our organization.
	Collaboration, we have expanding the number of corporate sponsors and agencies and alliances we're involved in, and truly becoming a chief influencer in the blind and low vision field, and we see it each and every day.  
	I just got back from our vendor reception, and our exhibitors in the exhibit hall.  Several of them unsolicited came up to me, and said, this is my favorite event I come to every year.  And this is my 4th of July holiday.  I love being with ACB.  And that's us, that's how we treat people.
[Applause].  
	Flexibility.  My God, do we have flexibility!  We live it each and every day.  And initiative.  We're always coming up with a better way to do things.  Sometimes too many better way to do things, but we'll get it all worked out, that's what we do.
	Our five core values are very important to us.  
	We also created a prohibited conduct policy and trying to make sure keep a safe and welcoming environment for all of our members.
	So look at what we have accomplished and what has happened in the areas of audio description.  I don't know if you got to look at the virtual panel discussion Carl Richardson read, audio Chair last Thursday, and we had all of the major streaming services there for 2010 a half hours talking about their advancements in screening and audio description with the American Council of the Blind.  Netflix, HBO max now called max.  Amazon Prime, apple TV, Disney plus, pair almighty plus, come cast universal were all there, listening and learning and participating with us.
	Think of where we have come in that particular area.  We truly are the world leader in audio description.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	But we have now taken that one step further with our audience description awards gala, which this year, we'll have our third annual awards gala on November 14th where we honor industry, and providers of audio description who have made a difference and now our annual people's choice awards and you get to nominate and then select your favorite audio described film or audio described series.  This is amazing progress.  
	Look what we accomplished in the area of advocacy with our imperatives.  Clark and I talk about this all of the time.  The last half of the 20th Century was really dedicated to physical access for the most part.  How do we have Braille signage, large print on our elevators, doors signs, how do we have mobility with ramps; right?  And that was the focus in the last 21st century.  And first half of the 21st Century is digital accessibility and we're being left behind digital accessibility.  And we're fighting that on all fronts.  Whether it be health care, or our new website and software education and accessibility act rehab or our durable access for medical equipment.  Over and over again, we're out there beating the drum for accessibility, and we can't stop.  
	We have had two meetings with the Bureau of Engraving and printing, by God, if I live long enough, we're going to have accessible currency.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	What do we want?
	>> Federal currency.  
	>> DAN SPOONE:  What do we got?  It will happen, and we met with the Bureau of Engraving printing on June 8th and the final testing for the counterfeit expectations and that will finish in September or October.  And then we have a quality test that has to pass and after that, a large batch service and make sure they canning manage them.  A large production of the accessible note with accessible tactile features.  
	And after that, two years away from going live and they will have to turn over the finished bills back over to the print manufacturers and can be tested and verified with ATMs, vending machines and high speed, all of that.  On record, we will go live at the end of the 3rd quarter on beginning of the 4th quarter 2026 with the new accessible $10 bill.  
	We are not going away and continue to meet with them.  Next meeting is scheduled for the fall and we'll continue to have those discussions and I believe it is going to happen.  I really, really do.  And we're not going to let up and keep fighting every step of the way.
	So I was hoping to, well, not hoping, necessarily, but I was planning on being here to say thank you for four years of being your ACB President, but life has a strange way of different circumstances, and so our wonderful Executive Director, Eric Bridges, after seven amazing years accepting an opportunity to move on to the American Foundation for the Blind.  Eric is a friend, a colleague, and let’s give Eric Bridges a big hip, hip, hurray!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	So I, you know, was asked by the board and I am happy to take on the role of our interim Executive Director here for the next year or so, and I have to tell you, folks, I had the opportunity to work with our staff on almost a daily basis as ACB President, but what I have learned over the past 3 or 4 months, what an amazing team we have on our ACB staff.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	They are absolutely fantastic!  And I think I will list them all out here because we have grown and I want to make sure you know everybody.
	In advocacy, we have Clark Rachfal, advocacy Governmental Affairs Director.  All right Clark.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	, Swatha.  Advocacy specialist.  
	And one of our newer employees, Catherine Kenlon, our audio description coordinator.  And in the area of resource development, we now have a new resource development consultant, Bill Reeder, and I don't know if you had a chance it meet Bill, a truly inspirational man, and our associate resource Director, Joel an Bailey page.  And resource development officer Colby garrison!   
	And in the area of communications, our communications manager, Kelly Gass.  And also our IT and audio visual and ACB Media manager, Rick Morris!  And our Braille Forum editor and so much more, Sharon love rig.
	And our contract for ACB Media, Larry Gassman, and also in our audio description team, we have our senior founder and consultant, Joel Snyder.  And our ADP webmaster, Fred Bragg.  And in the area of, I call it finance and other duties as assigned [Laughing].  We have our Chief Financial Officer Nancy Marks-Becker.  Woo!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	We have our administrative assistant in the Minnesota office Nancy Christine feel awe.  And just so it doesn't get any more confusing, both Nancies are married to Dennis's.  And our RCES thrift store manager.  And we hope from his sake retiring this year.  Act manager for account services, lane waters.  And lastly, our newest employee administrative assistant, Caitlyn Herrera!   
	This is almost our whole team, but last, and obviously, not least are our membership services manager, Cindy Hollis.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	And our community events administrative assistant Natalie Couch.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	This is our ACB staff, and folks, they are doing an absolutely amazing job.  From communications going out from Kelly Gass 5:30 in the morning during the convention.  And Nancy Marks-Becker using the research on resolution bills at 12:30 in the evening.  Clark I don't know how he does it, he can do advocacy for each meeting doing amazing work on advocacy.  We asked collar to do manager of Alexandria office and Nancy our office.  We moved to 22Reticker avenue, and right across from the metro station, all kinds of restaurants, offices and an excellent location.
	They were able, honestly in three days, get up, pack and organize and came down on Tuesday and came back up -- after three days, huge thanks to Nancy Marks-Becker, Becky Herrera and all of the team pulling that off.  Absolutely great work.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	So here we are.  How do we move forward?  I was so inspired the other day when I participated and listened in to the ACB women's sister power happy hour.  And Naomi, Sinoee and Christie telling their ACB stories and if that doesn't make you feel good about the future of our organization.
	Maria said this that really metropolitan to me, and she said, in ACB, the way I live my life, I embrace the attitude of gratitude.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	And I didn't ask Maria, but I said, I am going to steal that because that's awesome!  The attitude of gratitude.  
	And as I go through this convention and I hear the voices and I hear the friends, I hear the attitude of gratitude.  So for each of us this week, please, continue to have that attitude of gratitude that is our ACB Family.  Honor our core values, honor who we are at members of this amazing organization, and I just have to say, thank you!  Thank you for giving me this opportunity for me to serve!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	And Deb said I can't leave without saying one more time.  Hip, hip hurray!  Hip, hip hurray!  Hip, hip hurray!  
	Now we're going to see the 2023 ACB highlight video
[Video captioned] 
	>> That's a tough act to follow.  My goodness.  I have to send a little message back to Rick.  They lost the Spanish interpreters on ACB Media, so if you could look into that.  We need that to work.  All right.  The next things we get to do is really cool!  It is tough it top the video, but I might be able to do it with our life member presentations.  Oh.  This is so fun!  Some of these are surprises and some are not, but I am going to start with the first one, and I know most of these people, so that's encouraging, and I feel good about that.  
	I know this person.  The first life member this evening is appropriated with a gift from the Missouri Council of the Blind, Kay Malkuist. That's great. Yay!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Kind of a trick to get here.  It is about eight miles, and then it is kind of high up here on the stage.  Walking from downtown Chicago they said from the back.  Yes; right.  The peanut gallery.  I am going to give you some peanuts pretty soon.  All right.  
	All right.  Come on up here, that's great.  Yeah, you want to talk to us?
	>> I would just like to thank the American Council of the Blind for giving me this gift here, and I am really glad to be a lifetime member because I hope to contribute a lot more days with you in the future.  Thank you so much for this,
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Thank you so much, Missouri, and thank you, Kate for being a good member.  Are we ready for the next one?  Yeah!  This one is a gift from the Tennessee Council of the Blind to Linda Allison from Knoxville Tennessee
[Cheers and Applause]
	Yep.  She's coming.  All right.  She has about 200 miles to go.  [Laughing].  So while she's coming, I will just mention that life members are a great investment in our members, and that's really cool stuff.
	And the other two I have are going to be real surprised, I think.  She's halfway, Nancy said.  Put the pressure on you, Linda.  Come on.  Go, go, go!  Get up and moving Ray says.  No.  We don't want to give them a hard time and we want them to do that.  It is a long way up here, probably.  They say -- Just about here.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	Yay!  All right.  
	>> I just want to say thank you for Tennessee, having this big surprise.  I have only been a member since 2012, and this was awarded during our last convention, so Gordon dox with instrumental.  So thank you.  
	>> DEB:  That's absolutely marvelous.  Our next -- you will be surprised.  This one is also a guest from the Missouri Council of the Blind, and it will be given to Greg Hollis from Kansas City, Missouri.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	Yeah!  All right.  Is Greg here?  Oh, goodness.  Yes, he is.  He's the sprinter of the evening.  He took getting up here and moving up here seriously.  All right.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Yeah.  Denise, and you can be proud of Janelle, who did leave it very secretive, but I would love to thank the American Council of the Blind and I would love to thank, just a couple of moment ago recipient, and I understand she was pretty instrumental in making this happen.  And I love ACB, and I have been here for 100 years, and I will be here for the next time.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	.  
	>> Deb:  Congratulations and thank you to Missouri that's wonderful.  Before I have the next thing, and you will all be so loud and I have a special thing to read, it will make you cry.  
	I want to remind all of the into new life members and all members, that the life member breakfast is tomorrow morning at 7:30, and one of those euphorias, isn't it?  Utopia C. I am sorry, hard to keep track of all these rooms.  It is 7:30 in the morning and you can come and join us for that.
	Our last life member award, and I want to read the special statement about it, so hold your applause for a sec.
	It will go to Terrie Akanini He it is, in loving memory of your mom and celebration of our marriage, thank you, honey, for being a loving wife, loving others with Aloha and for loving ACB!  Isn't that great!  Yes, yes.  That's great.  Terrie, come on up.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> DEB:  I knew about this and I saw these guys the other day in the hall and I knew about this, and I said, I will see you all later.  [Laughing] 
	>> Way, Aloha, everyone.  I tried to send my representative here, but he refused.  [Laughing].  And thank you, first and foremost to Akanini,  and not an opportunity to meet him, but he has a deep desire for the people and connecting people to anything that they desire, and if they have a need to be more involved in ACB, or become scholarship winners in ACB, he always wants to connect people with other people, and that really inspires me to grow to have loved the organization as well.  Thank you so much for all of the people that get to meet and greet all of the time here, and of course, you know, I have to be so thoughtful to my affiliate, my Hawaii affiliate, 14 of us came with us this year
[Cheers and Applause]
	I am so happy.  To our President and founder and they help us, and they continue to build leaders, and I look forward to ACB, and helping ACB and just being a part of it.  Ohana means family and no one gets left hind.  But we have to get going and moving; right?  And my lovely husband is such a firm believer in that, people can grow, learn and do things bigger and better, and thank you so much!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	.  
	>> Deb:  All right.  Reorganize.  That was on paper, and now we have to go back to this.  Okay.  And we have to raise the McCay little bit because there is somebody shorter than I am a[Laughing].  Woo!  All right.  That was just a wonderful experience to bring in our new life members, and now we're going to shift to sort of another process that we think about here in ACB, and that's our ACB Angels and I had the opportunity a couple of different times to present an Angel to the organization, and it is a really big deal, and I am really thoughtful for those who decide to help with Angel contributions so more of our members and friends can become ACB angels and I want to encourage you to during the week go out to the exhibit hall and take a look at the Angel wall because it is getting really amazing out there!  
And wonderful program started by our member, Dan Dillon and the thoughts he had about the passing of his wife and it has gone on since then, and we have lots of Angels and some of them are -- dogs [Laughing].  And that will be the case as well.
	We have 14 Angels this year -- wow!  We'll have to do some Angels right now.
	The first thing I want to do before we commemorate some of our Angels and Terrie Renn mentioned some of them, and how special to get her life membership on the same night Connell memorize rating Angel.  I would like for you to hear the Angel song and put together from the sweet add lines of Nashville; is that right?  Yeah.  And it is a very fine tribute and let's start with that before we begin with your Angels.
[Music playing] 
	Angels, Angels, ACB Angels.  You give your all to be placed upon the wall of ACB Angels.  
	Angels, Angels, ACB Angels, we honor you for all you strive to do.  
	To be an ACB Angel!  
	>> Deb:  All right.  Great.
[Applause] .  
	Our first Angel presentation is for Warren Toyama, how do you say that?  Hawaii?  Do that again, Terrie lane?  Waipahu.  I am so sorry.  Yeah.  Waipahu, I got it.  After about 87 tries, I got it.
	Well, Warren Toyama is our first Angel and we have a video about that.  Let's do that. 
	[Video]
	>> Deb:  All right.
[Applause]
	Our next ACB Angel is Camille Caffarelli, and from Illinois and it is very, very fitting that we are able to make her an Angel while we're here in Schaumburg.  Let's watch that one. 
[Video captioned]
[Applause]
	>> Deb:  That's really great and some of you are going on the horizon's tour I believe, this week.
	Next, we have Billie Jean Keith from Ridgeland Mississippi. 
[Video captioned]
[Applause]
	>> Deb:  I believe we'll have to hunt up that in Braille form for those of us who don't remember them.
	Thank you all.  We'll be back later in the week for more Angels to change with you, and this is a special time in our organization and thank you for the time and commemoration.  
	Now, we have more special times, and we go from people who are new life members to new Angels, to first-timers in ACB convention.
[Applause]
	Yeah.  Every year ACB takes applications for individuals serving at their local level and can become first-timers to ACB, and that's a wonderful opportunity.  And many affiliates also provide support for first-timers could come to ACB, so I salute that was well.
	So introduce our first-timers, and hear a word.  We have Kenneth Semien Sr, and he will be address us new as first timers.  
	>> Kenneth Semien Sr:  Good afternoon, ACB.  We have one more time it celebrate DKM first times, the first time people receiving this award.  
	Before we recognize our class of 2023, I would like to recognize and allow her to say a few words to you, a DKN first-timer from 2020, and she's here now, and I would like to introduce to you, Sara Smith from Houston, Texas.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Good afternoon, everyone.  I want to say first of all, how thankful and honored to be able to be present here for the first time.  Because 2020, I was thrilled beyond belief but this has taken me over the Moon and back because now I not only can be present, and meet and grow, but now I am continuing the contribution and making others aware with owl of my leadership skills both the ACB in Texas and as well as Houston Council of the Blind.  And again, I am very, very grateful and indeed blessed to be here.  And thank you so much for this privilege.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	Okay.  Now we'll begin recognizing the class of 2023, and prior to bridging them up to the microphone, we have an audio production and our first recipient of 2023.  DKM first-timers award. 
	[Video]
	>> Please proceed with the first recipient with our audio introduction.  
	>> Kenneth, we're trying to see what happened to the audio.  Hold on.  [Please stand by for realtime captions].  
	>>  Deb:  While he's working on this, I will make a really quick announcement.  It is a really sad announcement.  If you are planning on going on the tubing contribute tomorrow, it is canceled because of the weather.  Yeah, is sad.  
	In the morning, the tubing river trip, so you need to, not go there, but I am trying to figure out whether they are supposed to actually check in.  You will be -- that will all be worked out, but meanwhile, the trip is not happening tomorrow because the weather is not permitting.  
[Audio-described video]
	>> Ladies and gentlemen, Gema Ceniceros.
[Applause] 
	>> Hi, everybody.  I am Gema and thankful for being here, and I would like to thank ACB and feel closer to many of you, by bumping into many of you in this big place.  [Laughing].  Thank you, everybody, and thank you, ACB.
[Applause] 
	>> For the next audio introduction.  Janae Miller.  
[Audio-described video]  
	>> Ladies and gentlemen, Janae Miller.
[Applause] 
	>> The things that are wrong.  I want to thank ACB for this award, DKM, and thank you to our ACB member Katie, and I am hoping to make everybody proud and everybody in Ohio proud.  Thank you so much for in wonderful award.
[Applause] 
	>> Deb:  That's very exciting.  Ooh.  It is loud when you get right in front of it, I am sorry.  There's a place where it is fine and a place where it is not.  Hard to find it.  And great to find it and it is so exciting to have our first timers and for having so many first-timers in general.  In fact, if you are here as a first-timer, we would like to have you do a shout out.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	And the rest of you can do a shout out back to them.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	All right.  We still outnumber them.
	Now, we come to my favorite parts of the program, the JP Morgan Chase Leadership Fellows.  I started my real leadership career as a JPMorgan Chase Fellow, the first class in 2016.  I highly recommend this program, and I certainly had some involvement in the ACB committee level, and certainly held leadership positions at the local level because that's part of what is expected for people who become chase fellows, and the opportunity for being a chase Fellow has given me very interesting and varying, and some of the challenges, too.  It is with great pride I thank JPMorgan Chase for having this program and making it possible to have us use it as one of our leadership development tools.  
	And now, to introduce JPMorgan Chase Leadership Fellows, I will give it back to Dan Spoone.
[Applause]
	>> DAN SPOONE:  All right, everybody.  We started this JPMorgan Chase Fellow program several years ago, and it has made an amazing difference in our organization.  Even to my left right here right now, in the first class of JPMorgan Chase fellows, Deb Cook Lewis, now your Interim President.
[Applause]
	We have members of our ACB Board of Directors who were JPMorgan Chase Fellow members, members of our ACB Board of Publications that were JPMorgan fell members and we have numerous ACB affiliate Presidents that were JPMorgan Fellow member and this transforms our organization, and I am so excited to introduce Kenneth to let you know of our JPMorgan Chase fellows of 2023, a big round of applause.  
[Cheers and Applause]
.  
	I want to introduce you to style awe core Ella.  
	>> Aloha.  And I am a member of the Hawaii Council of the Blind.  And thank you to this it the committee, and I really appreciate it.  And I thank Dan Spoone, Executive Director for having this award and I am thankful for this recognition.  Thank you so much.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> KENNETH SEMIEN SR:  We have one more person that I want to acknowledge, and here Becky ducker son, a JPMorgan Fellow Class of 2021.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Now we'll proceed with audio introductions and overview of ACB Fellowship Award.
	>> Since 2016, the Derwood K Daniel, DKM leaders who identify potential for ACB DKM Fellowship Award with fundings provided that award is granted.  
	To consider the award, interested members must be 18 years of age or old are, blind or visually impaired, a member of good standing, agree to be a member in good standing, demonstrate leadership and applicants also undergo with a 30-minute interview to apply for the committee.  
	And to apply for the award, applicants will submit online application and submit it by the announced deadline.  Recipients are submitted in late April and recognized during the Annual Open Session during the ACB Conference and Convention.  Receiving complimentary registration fee -- meeting great, leadership fellowship session and tickets to attend the ACB convention and other events and a stipend for other incidentals.  
	Appropriating the class of 2023 ACB, JPMorgan Chase Leadership Fellows.  Liz Bottner of Washington D.C., corporately working as assistant technology specialist at the Library of Congress.  Her voluntary work consists of serving technology instructor with the Washington D.C. talking book and library.  And a member of D.C. Maryland, the national chapter, and currently serves on the pedestrian active committee, the technical audio description subcommittee and a ACB trained host.  
	Additionally Vice President of the government employees affiliate and member of JGUDI -- playing blind ice hockey.  
	>> KENNETH:  Ladies and gentlemen, Liz Bottner.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> LIZ BOTTNER:  I stand before all of you deeply grateful, honored and humbled.  I would also like to thank JPMorgan Chase for believing in the power of leadership, and I would also like to thank those in my personal circle that have been and continue to be there for me, and helping me to achieve my aspirations being known or unrealized.  
	Having said that, this award is bigger than me.  This with ward is about every single one of us in the talents, skills and abilities we can bring to the table.  If you are listening and thinking, I don't have anything to do, and or, what can I do?  Yes, you absolutely have something to give and if you need help figuring out what that is, just ask.  You are worth it!  Thank you.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Kenneth:  Let's proceed.  
	>> Cheryl Cumings, current corporately employed by the Lighthouse for the Blind.  Holds membership in bay state Council of the Blind, and Washington Council of the Blinding.  Cheryl has champion for greater access for the blind.  
	She acquired a BA and continued on for masters of law and diplomacy at Tufts University.  And within ACB on the Board of -- she has a love for books, the arts, politics, and the local community.  
	>> Kenneth:  Ladies and gentlemen, Cheryl Cumings!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> CHERYL CUMINGS:  Good evening to everyone, and I just want to say thank you to JPMorgan Chase for this opportunity, and thank you to David Kingsbury the President of the state Council of the Blind, and the Interim President for Council of the Blind and supporting me for taking this opportunity.
	I am so excited to be been given this chance because it gives me access to information and knowledge, which I promise you, I plan to use, certainly in my employment situation, but absolutely to continue my work here as part of ACB.  So thank you, thank you, thank you very much.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>>  Kenneth:  Let's proceed.  Terrie Terlau from Louisville, Kentucky and obtained Bachelor's in Ph.D. in psychology and she has been a licensed psychologist in
	>> KENT: For 30 years and joined the American printing house.
	Terrie is a guide dog user and lifetime member of
	>> KENT: Council of the Blind.  And serves as ACB first -- President, Louisville Council of the Blind and Terrie loves language and an avid reader of science and mysteries, and enjoys singing playing -- 
	>> Kenneth:  Ladies and gentlemen, Terrie Terlau!  
	>> TERRIE TERLAU:  Thank you very much.  I am deeply, deeply honored to have been selected by ACB as a JPMorgan Chase Fellow.  The leadership skills I anticipate learning and already learned today and will learn throughout the week will make me better able to serve this wonderful organization, and better able to connect with those with whom I am working in ACB.  We're all part of the same ocean, all drops in the same pool, and the more each drop grows, the more we bring to all of the other drops to its ocean, and in the ocean and that's what I want to do with this award.  Thank you so very much.  And when you hear me coughing, I am not contagious.  It is asthma.  Not a germ.  Thank you.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Kenneth:  Malaina Vanderwal -- a teacher for the visually impaired, and she supports advocacy and an active member of her chapter, VIPP serving as President.  Within mish can began Council of the Blind and vision impaired, serves on multiple committees, Co-Editor for the affiliate newsletter -- additionally a supporting member of the ACB next generation serving on the Board of Yo-yo Director.  
	>> KENNETH:  Ladies and gentlemen, Malaina Vanderwal!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> MALAINA VANDERWAL:  Thank you, ACB, thank you JPMorgan Chase and honor for this award.  I am very blessed and honored for being chosen as JPMorgan Chase leadership award.  And I meant to do this a few years ago.  And anyway, 2023 was my year to go for it.
	Thank you to my President from the Council of the Blind, Casey Gutner for supporting me and all my other friends from ACB -- ACB Ohio.  Thank you very much.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Benjamin Wright resides in Henderson, Kentucky, and Ben's employment career expands from the American printing house, ACH and Kentucky school for the blind, and as a member of Council of the Blind and presently serves as Director on the KCB and founding member served as Secretary and President.  Future aspirations are to serve on an ACB advocacy committee.  
	And his will have for the arts, wants to be on the audience description product.  Spending time with family boundary volunteering with his church and his community.  
	>> Ladies and gentlemen, Benjamin Wright.  
[Cheers and Applause]
.  
	>> BENJAMIN WRIGHT:  Good evening, I found the sweet spot in the microphone.  I am honored to receive this award in my home State of Illinois.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	There's a number of folks I would like to thank, but if I did that, I will be up here all night, and I am sure there are things you have to do tonight.  Most of all thanking JPMorgan Chase, ACB, the general fund committee, and also my affiliate President and all of the leadership that Carly and Matt and all of the things taught in GLCB ACB and the next generation.  Thank you all very much.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Kenneth:  Okay.  Those are all of our recipients for 2023, and I beau like it acknowledge our DKM fund committee.  We have Sheila Young, Amanda Zelle, Gerhardt, Casey green VI and we have Kelly gas as our liaison.  Thank you all.  Have a great night!  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>>  Deb:  All right.  That was wonderful.  Have I to tell a little story on Benjamin Wright, but before I do, I need to ask all of the delegates, either the delegate or alternate, whichever your state and affiliate determined who will be representing you this evening, please, report to the delegates room so we can have the roll call and you need to go now.  And if you are not there before I get done with my tiny story, you are late.  [Laughing].  
	So Dan and I divide calling chase Leadership Fellows and congratulating them.  And my colleague Benjamin Wright, and he had a big oop, and he was standing in the middle of Walmart.  So I thought that was pretty good.  I thought that was pretty fun.  [Laughing].  
	>> After that last announcement, a lot of people leaving the room.  I am not sure they realize only the virtual delegates.  
	>> [Away from microphone].  
	>> Deb:  I am usually cold by this time and sneak off to the room for the roll call and I am figuring out how do in this year, and apparently not.  Most of you don't have a delegate room, it is in here.  So you better stay.  
	We're not taking a break.  In fact, it is time for the Nominating Committee Report, and that will be given to us by Brian Charlson, and I think it says we have the credential report after that, but not right because we don't have that report until roll call.  And thank you for helping us figure that out.  We are trying to bring our previous conventions to this convention and we messed it up a little.  
	So Brian will provide for us our Nominating Committee Report, and Denise Colley will join us for the roll call.  So Brian.  
	>> BRIAN CHARLSON:  Up goes the microphone.  Okay.  Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is been an interesting year all around, don't you think?  We set a number of records here and there.  And I want to take tell you about the record the nominating committee said.
	On the 19th of June, roughly 50 delegates came together in one Zoom room, and none of them had their mics turned off.  With all open.  But I am telling you, they learned, they were very, very polite to one another, they were ready to get the job done, they came prepared.  And during the course of our meeting, we ended up putting together the following slate.  
	I want new members to thank your representatives to the committee, and too many for me to name right now, but if you get a chance, please thank your representative to our national nominating committee.  
	Our slate selected in 30 minutes
[Cheers and Applause]
	That's a record, ladies and gentlemen, an absolute record.  I was Chair of this committee last year, and trust me, we dreamed 30 minutes would happen.
	So our slate consists of, for the Office of President of the American Council of the Blind, Deb Cook Lewis of Washington State retired.  Cheers.  
	For First Vice President, a friend of mine, David Trott of tell data Alabama, and again, retired.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	For Second Vice President, running for reelection, Ray Campbell, of Springfield, Illinois.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	For Secretary Denise Colley, of -- I got to get this, from Texas now, Richmond Texas.  
	And for the Office of Treasurer, Mr. Michael Garrett of Missouri City, Texas.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	All of these people are similar to me, retired, you know?  
	And I want to tell you about the committee report.  We can only select individuals for offices
[Background noise].  
	Do not assume these are the only offices we select because maybe one of the people elected on this slate will leave an opening, or other activities such as that.  Make sure your delegate is here because all votes or office are record votes.  You get your individual vote and your affiliate get theirs as well.  
[Background noise]
[hot mic -- 
	>> Ladies and gentlemen, if you could please mute your Zoom mics.  
	>> DEB:  Yes, in the delegate room, all mute please.  Thank you for that, Brian, and now we'll turn the meeting over to Denise Colley and Denise Colley, our Secretary will call the affiliate roll -- mute it, guys -- and she will explain to you, what we're doing, how do it, and this is pretty much as we did last year, but we actually have created a really cool situation for our remote delegates and I am really, really pleased.  Thanks to Rick, Warren, very clever work on this one.
	Let's have the roll call, Denise
	>> DENISE COLLEY:  Can everybody hear me?
	>> Yeah
	>> DENISE COLLEY:  Hope everybody in the Zoom room can hear me.  Starting with the roll call, there are four affiliates we're not calling.  Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and visually impaired Veterans because they didn't have enough votes to make a vote.
	And as I go through the roll call, please, when you come up to give me your information, all I need is your delegate and your alternate, so I make sure my information matches yours, and if your affiliate is making a contribution to any ACB program.  
	I will try and call proximately five states at a time, and you can make affiliate person, and muting your -- unmuting and when done unmute again.  
	First states I will call are Alabama -- one second, guys.
	Alabama through California.  Alabama, three votes.  
	>> Good afternoon, Michael tally here from Alabama and I am the delegate and alternative is Donovan might tail.  
	>> Sources two votes.  
	>> Good evening, this is Cencelli and [Indiscernible] is our delegate.  
	>> Arkansas.  
	>> Good afternoon.  I am the delegate and our alternate is Theresa.  
	>> And then Connecticut through Hawaii.  If you are ready.  California.  20 votes.  
	>> California.  Okay.  
	>> Folks, the mics are in the front of the room, in the rows in the front of the room.  Thank you.  
	>> Good evening, Steve Bauer and the President is serving as the delegate.  
	>> Thank you.  Connecticut, one vote.  
	>> Delaware.  
	>> Denise, I want to make a quick mic check.  Can someone let us know if you can hear us.  
[Speaking simultaneously]
	>> Vermont?
	>> Yeah.  
	>> Okay.  Thank you.  
	>> We can't hear anybody in the room on that side, though.  
	>> DEB:  That as only for the people who are virtual.  If you are in person, you will get to a mic.  We'll try Delaware later.
	EC council by votes.  
	>> I skipped Delaware is what I did.  I am sorry.  [Laughing].  
	>> You forgot Connecticut, too.  
	>> No.  Connecticut didn't respond.  We didn't get a response.
	Delaware one vote.  Delaware?  Okay.  We'll move on.  D.C. council.  Five votes.  
	>> Robin, can you hear me?
	>> I can hear you, yes.  
	>> Raise is the delegate and Azul is the alternate.  
	>> Thank you.  Florida, 19 votes.  
	>> This is Sheila Young, the delegate and Wiseman, we are donating $500 to ACB Media and $600 to the Braille Forum by purchasing 12 tickets and we have also donated two, $25 cash door prizes and very proud to be the host state for next year's National Convention, so we can't wait.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Illinois through North Carolina, can you give me two mics?  Open your mics.  
	>> Georgia, five votes, Mark Ferrera is the delegate and Phil Jones is the alternate delegate.  
	>> Okay.  Hawaii, 13 votes.  
	>> I am the delegate, and Natalie is the alternate delegate and with true form, I would like it pledge $1,000 to the general fund, $1,000 to ACB radio, and $1,000 to the DKM fund, $500 to DKM radio and $500 to students.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> I misspoke.  I really let Hawaii really grow.  It is actually three votes, sorry about that.  [Laughing].  That's right.  They did.  They paid for them.  Illinois, three votes.  
	>> It is only appropriate, Denise, that you spoke that in Chicago.  [Laughing].  
	>> Yes, I know.  
	>> Good evening, I am Ray and the alternate delegate is -- 
	>> Thank you.  
	>> This is Rita Church, and ACB Indiana, and alternate delegate is Dean Anhash.  
	>> Iowa, three growths.  
	>> I am Alan worth, Vice President, Council of the Blind, delegate and -- will be our alternate.  
	>> Thank you.  
	>> Kansas, three votes.  Kansas?  Okay.  Kentucky, 13 votes.  
	>> All right.  On behalf of Kentucky, Debbie Parsons will serve as our delegate, and [Indiscernible] as the alternate, and I would like to welcome our 23 members who are here in person at the convention.  
	>> Wow!  
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> And I would also like to congratulate our two JPMorgan Chase winners.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Blue Grass Council of the Blind.  And -- 
	>> Louisiana, two votes.  
	>> Good evening, Madam Secretary, I am Teresa curry delegate and husband her air curry, alternate.  
	>> You guys do that so well.  I talk to them every year.  
	>> Maine.  Two votes.  
	>> Good evening, this is [Indiscernible] Purrell, and delegate and alternate is Gerald McQuaid.  
	>> Maryland, three votes.  Ellen?
	>> Standby, Madam Chair.  
	>> All right.  
	>> Hi, this is Patsy Harland, the alternate delegate, our state President, Sandra Sermons is the delegate.  
	>> Thank you.  I don't know how far I was going to go, so -- [Indiscernible] through -- okay.  Hold on.  Bay State, eight votes.  
	>> I am Brian Charlson, the delegate and alternate delegate is Sharon Straucowski.  Michigan, five votes.  
	>>  I am Kristen Pelling, serving delegate and -- 
	>> Minnesota three votes.  
	>>  Patty Slaufy, delegate, Mickey Slunder our alternate, and ACB Minnesota donating $1,000 to the James Olson Memorial Scholarship Fund.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> I love it.  Mississippi, three votes.  
	>> Ralph Smitherman, serving delegate, and Kenneth as alternate by Zoom.  
	>> Thank you.  
	>> Missouri, 18 votes.  
	>> This is Naomi Swivel, delegate and Chip is alternate delegate on Zoom.  
	>> Thank you.  Nebraska, one vote.  
	>> Good evening, Becky Dunkerson, delegate, Cheryl DeBlasio, alternate.  
	>> Thank you.  Nevada, two votes.  
	>> No, I have not moved.  I am the delegate, Donna Salger, and there's no alternate.  I am alternate and everything else.  [Laughing].  
	>> New Jersey, three votes.  
	>> Good evening, I am Wanda Wolford, ACB Council of the Blind.  And I am the delegate and Bruce Williams our alternate.  
	>> Good.  North Dakota, and South Dakota, anyone with microphones.  New York, eight votes.  
	>> Hello, from the glorious Empire State, Kerry Reagan, serving as your delegate and the Importeus gene man, alternate delegates.  
	>> She's too happy this time of night.  New York must have extra energy or something.  [Laughing].  
	North Carolina, three votes.  
	>> Hi, I am Sandy Owens, serving as delegate for North Carolina, with no alternate.  
	>> Okay.  Thank you.  North Dakota, 7 votes.  
	>> Gerald Buyer, North Dakota, delegate and Alan Petersen is the alternate, and North Dakota is donating $500 for Braille form and two other prizes.  
	>> Thank you.  Ohio, 7 votes.  
	>> Our delegate, JPMorgan Chase Fellow, and alternate is Karen.  
	>> Oklahoma, 17 votes.  
	>> Hi, this is Kayla from the Center State and I will serve as delegate and Jenny Bottner will be the alternate delegate.  
	>> Organ, four votes.  
	>>  I am Ty Wellnau, the delegate and the alternate is Leonard Kokel over Zoom.  
	>> And then the rest of the states, Tennessee through -- Wisconsin, I guess it is.  Pennsylvania, eight votes.  
	Chris Huntinger, President of the Council of the Blind, and I am the delegate and alternate is Kathy Long.
	>> South Dakota, three votes.  
	>> This is Laura Olsen, President of South Dakota Association for the Blind, and I am delegate and Shelly Hart is our alternate, $60 to the Ralph and $500 to the ACB program in honor of one of ACB founders.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Tennessee, six votes.  
	>> Tennessee, y'all get this Robert Spangler and alternate Linda Allison, and I will have her announce the awards with me.  
	>> Donations, $100 to the memorial walk [Indiscernible].  To the Ralph.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Thank you.  Texas, 11 votes.  
	>> Texas.  Okay.  
	>> I am Michael Garrett alternate delegate and delegate Chris Princes, and Texas donating $5500 and purchase of five Braille form and tickets to the general -- $500 -- 
	>> Utah.  
	>> I am Sandy Rukniche, the delegate from Utah, alternate is different, Ana Lee, Aunilie, Hathaway.  
	>> Thank you.  
	>> Vermont, three votes.  
	>>  Vermont delegate Tom Frank, alternate Jerry Doody.  
	>> Virginia two votes.  
	>> That is Doug t delegate, and Donna Browning will be our alternate.  
	>> Sounded like you weren't real sure [Laughing].  
	>> Senior moment.  
	>> You are entitled.  Washington, 16 votes.  
	>> Julie Brannon the delegate and [Indiscernible] the alternate, and we're very proud we have 15 members here.
[Applause] 
	>> Fountain State.  
	>> Hello.  Council of the Blind, proud to donate $100, and $50 to the Braille form, and $50 towards shipping for the auction we had a few weeks ago.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	And also I'm here with three first timers from Virginia, so welcome.  I am Donna Brown, the delegate and almighty gnat delegate is Kathy Proctor on Zoom.  
	>> And vision loss through ACB Families making their way to mics and we're opening up their Zoom rooms.  Wisconsin, one vote.  
	>> I am Kathy Huchenth and alternate is [Indiscernible].  And 30 membership in attendance.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> Alliance on Aging and Vision Loss, six votes.  
	>> Anybody answer for Connecticut?
	>> No.  I am sorry.  This is Ellen, delegate, and alternate is Ellie Palmer.  
	>> Thank you.  
	>> This is Suzanne Howell from Delaware, I am alternate and our President is delegate Trevino.  
	>> Thank you.  AADL.  
	>> This is Doug Pell, President, and delegate, and Neisa via Zoom, and alternate is Genote Dixon via Zoom.  
	>> Teachers, two votes.  
	>> I am Tabitha Breky and I will be the delegate via Zoom and April Martin also on Zoom will be our alternate.  
	>> Attorneys.  Two votes.  
	>> AAVIA, Steve Low, the delegate, and Dave Adams, the alternate delegate.  
	>> Thank you.  
	>> ACB Diabetics, 5 votes.  
	>>  Goodbye good evening, Karen delegate, and alternate is Erica Delsy, attending via Zoom, the war years over $800.  Woo hoo!  And T-shirts and give it a big woo hoo!  
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> ACB Families, four votes.  
	>> I am Carla, President of ACB Families and people ask us all of the time, who can be part of ACB Families?  And everybody is family and everybody is welcome.  I will be serving for delegate and almighties gnat is Lisa brooks.  
	>> If the rest of the special interest affiliates request make their way to a mic or unmute on Zoom.
	Government employees, one vote.  
	>> [Indiscernible] government employees, and I will be serving as delegate and [Indiscernible] servings as alternate.  
	>> Thank you.  ACB Alliance, four votes.  
	>>  Good evening.  ACB Lions, the affiliates that roar, and Debbie is  the delegate and the alternate is Boudry.  
	>> All right.  Thank you.  ACB NextGen.  
	>> Hi, Amanda sound next to the ACB, woo hoo!  
	>> Woo hoo!  
	>> Don't act like you are happy to be here.  Okay.  Attitude of gratitude.  I am so thoughtful to be representing at this moment, right now, I have waited for four years standing behind this mic to deliver a roll call.  I did it last year and super excited.  
	This year, Joey serving as our delegate and Cassie serving as our alternate delegate.  I am so excited we have ten JPMorgan Chase and our affiliate.  Thank you, ACB.  
	>> You go, NextGen.  
	>> Hello, I am Harvey, President of ACB Radio Amateurs and serving as delegate and Marsha Moses serving as alternate delegate, and both via Zoom.  We're contributing $200 towards door prize money and also taking out an ad in the newspaper tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, which we hope all of you will pay attention to.  Thank you.  
	>> Thank you, Harvey.  
	>> ACB students, one vote.  
	>> Hello.  Okay.  Here I go.  My name is Greg Juan Snyder, and I am proud to serve as your delegate for the American Council of the Blind students, Maria Tibo for alternate, and we're very proud our scholarship winners, and hopefully will become active members in the Council of the Blind students and we would like you to send all your students, that means ALL your students, into ACB students, and please, send us money because we need it.  [Laughing].  To continue -- yeah.  Because we're students -- [Laughing] -- we would love to partner with you, ACBStudents.org.  Please, send money.  Thank you!  
[Laughing]
[Cheers and Applause]
	>> What do you say after that?  
[Laughing] 
	>> Fits, 7 votes.  
	>> Good evening, Madam Secretary, I am Irlene Hues, delegate and Diane Skelsy our Treasurer our ultimate delegate.  
	>> Thank you.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Lion Pride, four votes.  
	>> Hi, I am Anthony Corona delegate and President, Lea Gardener, alternate.  We have three JPMorgan Chase and you can send us money, too.  Go to PPI [Indiscernible].  Thank you, everyone.  
	>> Braille Revival.  Live in Boots.  
	>> Hi, I am the delegate via Zoom, delegate alternate Andersen, and reminding everyone Braille gives feeling to words.  [Laughing].  
	>> CCLBI, ten votes.  
	>> This is Patty Cox and I will be the delegate and Zeb Hart will be the alternate delegate and on Zoom.  We want everybody to come and have a great party, so grab your flapper dresses and Fedoras and come Tuesday night and dance to the Charleston.  
	>> Friends in Arts.  
	>> This is Annie Jipetta, delegate and elected President, Friends in Art, Mike Mandel will be our alternate, and we want money too, and we hope you enjoy the virtual showcase and get down with the in-person showcase, thank you.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> Thank you.  Users, 15 votes.  
	>> Good evening.  ACB and -- dogs, Sara Calhoun JDY, and I am the delegate, and alternate is Dixie Andersen, and JDY donating $600 to ACB Media.  Enjoy the convention, everyone.  
	>> Thank you.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> IB, one vote.  
	>> Independent Visually Impaired -- I am President, but our delegates are Gerhard -- alternate is Carla Hayes.  [Laughing].  Oh, yeah.  We'll take money, too.  [Laughing].  
	>> So will we, up here.  
	>> Library users, 7 votes.  
	>> G Wilkinson, President for a few more days, delegate, and the alternate is Leslie Tom, and proud to be sponsor and narrative, and hopefully you will be with us for special at one, Monday, and don't forget to meet with us, Tuesday and Jason Yefnar and members of his staff.  
	>> RSBA, 17 votes.  
	>> And Members of America, President Scott Hagan, our delegate and artist symposium our alternate delegate and we invite you to purchase tickets for the comedian, karaoke, and casino night.  
[Laughing] 
	>> Madam Chair, unless I have forgotten anybody, that completes roll call.  Kansas?  Oh.  They weren't here.  Thank you.
[Applause] 
	>> All right.  Kansas, three votes, calling one more time.  Kansas, three votes.  Madam Chair, that's the call of roll.
[Applause] 
	>> Oops, it came off.  A little repair job.  Just a moment, good of.  I think we repaired it, sort of.  Ray, what did you say over there?  Okay.  Too much bias for that.
	Thank you, everyone.  Excellent job.  Working that out.  Great.  We are going to get a lot of
	Our next report is the credentials report it with credentials Chair Ralph Smitherman.  
	>> RALPH SMITHERMAN:  Are we good?  Can you hear me?  All right.  I want to thank Madam President to give me an opportunity to presenter our final credentials report and once again, thank you for special interest affiliates and/or special interests for sending it in, and efforts on behalf of staff and once again, I want to thank the committee to who did a great job.  Members Jane Corona, Denise Colley, Janet Dickelman -- no penalties delivered this year, so keep getting your information in on time.  And the invest program is working well for us.  
	Having said all of this, as President, I want to make a motion if you would allow.  On behalf of credentials committee, I make a vote by Ferris votes and any amendments for all ACB members certified by the record date May 19, 2023, shall constitute the voting body for ACB submissions 2023.  Thank you.  
	>> Just a second.  Any discussion or questions?  Hearing none, all in favor, accepting the report of the Credentials Committee, say ark ye.  
	>> Aye.  
	>> We didn't have any opposition in the room.  And the next exciting part of the committee, now down the elections.  
	And all of the officer positions are preelection, and first position elected is the President because I am the -- I am a candidate for that position, and I will be turning the meeting over to first vice president Ray Campbell, and had a lot of
	And now ready for the big assignment of conducting the Office of Election of President, so Ray.  
	>> RAY CAMPBELL:  I am a living example that
	Doesn't always make perfect.  [Laughing].  Good evening, ACB.  The nominating committee has placed in nomination the name of Deb Cook Lewis from Washington State who retired from the position of President.  I will call from nominations three times and are there any other nominations from the floor?  Going second, are there any -- do we have any hands in Zoom?  We don't have any on the floor.  
	>> No hands in Zoom
	>> RAY CAMPBELL:  Second time.  Any other nominations from the Office of the President from the floor?  None in the room?  How about Zoom?
	>> None in Zoom
	>> RAY CAMPBELL:  Thank you, Nancy and channel.  For the third and final time.  Any other nominations for Office of the President of the American Council of the Blind?  Okay.  We have a motion that nominations be closed and that Deb Cook Lewis be elected by acclimation, and is there a second.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	All in favor for that motion, please say aye.  
	>> Aye.  
	>> Opposed.  You have to do it.  I am learning from Deb.  We don't have to take it to a Zoom vote no opposition in the room, Deb Cook Lewis, President of American Council of the Blind.  And gets the interim off her title!  Congratulations, now.  
[Cheers and Applause]

	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  When we -- I am working on it and have to bend it down, here.  One reason this is good, I had a hard time spelling interim and I get this spelling and showing up as misspelled words in the document and I say, no.  It has an I [Laughing].  Well, thank you, ACB.  I really appreciate this and I am very humbled and I wasn't sure if it would happen, so I just thank you and I will do the best I can for you, and I am just jazzed to be on with it.  Yeah.  Let's get on.  
	It is getting late and more elections.  
	Our second female President!  Yeah!  There you go.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	So the nominating committee has placed into nomination for First Vice President, the name of David Trott, from Alabama and since he will not be treasuring for us anymore.  David trot and any other nominations from the floor?  Taking them from Zoom and from the floor.  Anything in Zoom, channel?
	>> Nothing in Zoom
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you very much.  Any nominations in from the floor or Zoom?
	>> Nothing in Zoom
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  And for a third time.  Any nominations for h- from the floor boundary Zoom.  
	>> Nothing in Zoom
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Large number of people moving that nomination and David Trott he be elected by problem law nation.  All in favor?
	>> Aye.  
	>> Any opposed?  And you know what we do.  And we have to suspend the rules and not the way we're posed to do it.  All right 69 congratulations David trot!  
	>> DAVID TROTT:  Thank you, Madam President, and ACB, you have given me a lot of privileges over the year and allowed me to serve as your Board Member for several terms and Treasurer, and I think you voted me for First Vice President, and I quit begging for money, so you made a mistake there [Laughing] and know that Rhonda and I love ACB and we're truly a member of the family
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Thank you very much.  Moving right along.  The nominating produced the name of Ray Campbell here with our affiliate, Illinois, Second Vice President.  And Ray said three years as First Vice President is just about enough.  And asked is e- asks for your vote to complete and the Second Vice President.  [Laughing] any nominations on the floor or in Zoom?
	>> CHANNEL:  None in Zoom.  Ebb
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you very much.  Any nominations from the floor or in Zoom.  
	>> Channel:  None in Zoom
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you very much.  Third time.  Any nominations from the floor or in Zoom.  
	>> Channel:  None in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Someone moved nominations seize and Ray Campbell be elected by account elimination.  All in favor.  
	>> Aye limited to and any opposed?  All right.  Ray, you get what you ask for.  
[Cheers and Applause]

	>> RAY CAMPBELL:  I guess you think this neat little farm kid from Illinois is doing a good job, yeah?  Thank you very much.  ACB.  I am truly honored and humbled and look forward to working with Deb, Dave, David and whoever else we put on the officer team and we'll see how that all works out.  Thank you very much.  And I look forward to this, and this is truly an honor to get my last term as your Second Vice President in my home state of Illinois, thanks so much.  
[Cheers and Applause]

	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Yes, he wants to know if he can go off stage?  I think he can go off stage [Laughing].  Don't leave the room, though.  [Laughing].  He is headed for the bar.  [Laughing].  
	All right.  The nominating committee has placed into nomination the name of Denise Colley Secretary.  Any nominations from the floor or in Zoom for Secretary?
	>> CHANNEL:  None in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Okay.  I thought you said nine in the room [Laughing] I thought, oh, no [Laughing] I will be here all night, folks.
	Already.  For a second time, any hands in the room or in Zoom for Secretary nomination?
	>> None in Zoom
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you.  I get to clean my ears out.  For the third and final time any nominations in Zoom or in the room for Secretary?
	>> CHANNEL:  None in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Very good.  Thank you and do we have room to close?  I was just about making you vote without doing my thing there.  Parliamentarian kill me.  
	And it is Denise Colley elected to the 2nd Secretary of ACB Council of the Blind and those in favor?
	>> Aye.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  
	>> DENISE COLLEY:  My ACB Family got me there, and I think about JPMorgan Chase winners, really learning and developing leadership skills and I want to tell you that really happens in this organization because I, too, have felt very honored to serve in the various roles that I have, as your VOP Chair, and scholarship Committee Chair, on the Board of Directors and as your ACB Secretary, and I want to tell everybody, thank you, thank you, thank you so much.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Thank you, Denise.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	The nominating has placed the name of Michael Garrett for Treasurer.  Any nominations from the floor or in Zoom?
	>> CHANNEL:  No hands raised in Zoom
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  For the second time, any nominations from the floor or in Zoom.  
	>> None in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  And for the third and final time, are there any nominations from the floor or in Zoom?
	>> None.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Hold on, you can't quite do that, they have to verify.  Zoom as well?
	>> Yes.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you very much.  Now you can do it.  
	>> [Away from microphone].
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Thank you there.  And okay.  It has been moved Michael Garrett be elected by account eliminations for Treasurer for the American Council of the Blind, all for, say aye.  
	>> Aye.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All opposed?  Great.  
	>> I dressed for the occasion anyway.  And I want to thank you, ACB for your confidence in me and I know I have HUGE shoes to fill and stepping into the position that Dave has held, and I hope my feet are big enough to walk like David.  But we'll both be asking for money so -- that's what Treasurers do.
	Again, thank you, ACB and I am deeply humbled and thankful to serve the organization for a number of years, just because I love ACB.  
[Cheers and Applause]

	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Thank you, Michael.  We're not done -- oh, man, now we get to have fun.  
	Okay.  So I told you several weeks ago that Katie Fredrick has chosen not to seek another term or be appointed for another term as Chair of the Board of Publications and had many, many work commitments and other challenges and she assures me she'll continue to service B in many ways and back on boards or whatever, and not done.  She does have a little bit of a break because she has a very demanding job.  Just coming to the Leadership Conference she had to come back three times and work around it.  It is a tough thing, being a working person.  I am glad I am not doing that name.  
[Applause]
	This created an opportunity on the Board of Publications for your new President to appoint a new Chair and I am appoint clock penny reader as share as the Board of Publication.  Penny served on the Board of Publications for two full terms, actually two terms and the year, and this creates one more term penny can serve in one position, and she will be our Board of Publications Chair for the next two years.  Congratulations Penny.  Well-deserved.  Been the VOP, done our Board Summaries and Chair and works really, really hard and definitely deserves this opportunity and she's very excited.
	Penny, are you here?  Do you want to say something?
	>> PENNY:  I just want to thank Deb for having the confidence in me, and truth and information and anyway [Away from microphone].  And serving you.  And I have some big shoes to fill as Michael said.  Katie, Ron, and Denise, and Paul, and so many others, thank you very much.
[Applause]
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Just for a point of sort of clarification here, Dan reminded me to remind you all, Kim Charleson will continue to qualify for our Past President because Dan doesn't qualify for that right now.  Kim is going to continue, and I am so grateful tore that because Kim has a get knowledge and calm in the storms and a very big asset to our board.  So I am so appreciative of that.  Absolutely.
	In fact, I would be in a big panic if anyone says something else had to happen, and I don't know what it would be.  All right.  With this, huh?  
	So Cheryl Cumings is the other pointed member on the Board of Publications, but -- 
[Cheers and Applause]
	Penny's position was an elected position, and that frees up an elected position, which will be for a one-year term.  So we are -- when I thought this might happen, I offered that anyone who was interested could participate in the candidate's forums and that didn't make those any kind of official candidates or whatever.  So we are now opening nominations from the floor for a one-year term on the ACB Board of Publications.  Any nominations from the floor?
	>> [Away from microphone]
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Who is asking for the floor, you have to go to a mic?  And when you do nominate someone, please, when that person accepts the nomination, we need to know if you are speakers because we'll have speeches now, and if you are in the room or on Zoom, raise your hand and we can find them.  If they are in the room, raise your hand so our room spotters can find them.  Who is asking to are the floor.  
	>>  Anthony Corona again.  Nominating Jeff bishop.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Jeff, are you accepting?  Are you in Zoom?
	>> He is not in Zoom.  
	>> Hold on, guys, I have been asked to patch in engineer bishop by Clubhouse?
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Sure.  Are there any other nominations in the floor?
	>> Everybody has patched him
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Is he patched?
	>> No.  Working on that right now.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Any other nominations?
	>> Madam President, this is Edward Shaw how many, and I decided after the second candidates forum I was involved in, that Jeff accepts the position and mine are nor similar than not and I decided to not run because I was in the candidate's forum.  So thank you, Madam President, and thank you, Jeff.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you for that, Edward.  Helpful to clear up.  Any other nominations from the floor?
	>> Wisconsin.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Are you on a mic?
	>> I thought you were.  
	>> Jeff, you should now be patched and in heard on Zoom and the stream.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Let's finish with Peter first.  
	>> I would like to Albert Anderson from Illinois, Albert, do you accept the nomination?  Where's Albert?
	>> Albert -- 
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  I think he is working on it.  Meanwhile, while he's getting to a mic, Jeff, are you accepting the nomination?
	>> I am.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Ooh.  And you are loud. [Laughter].  
	>>  I am sorry.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Where are your speakers in here or on Zoom?
	>> I believe Katie is there.  Brian Charles -- and Katie my second.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Brian and Katie are you both here?  Katie is still here.  Brian, are you still here?  We don't think Brian is here, Jeff.  
	>> That's not good!  [Laughing].  He was here earlier.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  He was!  I put money on it he was here, but Nancy doesn't see him.  
	>> Should be said -- Anthony said he would speak are you.  Is that acceptable?
	>> Yes, that's acceptable.  
	>> Madam President, I deeply appreciate the being nominated for the one-year nomination for the Board of Publication, however, at this point, I haven't any that wanted a second the nomination, but as a long time participant in ACB, I give you all of my greatest loyalty and respectfully decline nomination.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you.  And to remind you all, when nominating something, please make sure they do want the nomination and it will save us some time.
	We have a nomination in the name of Jeff bishop.  Any other nominations from the floor?  Any hands on the floor or in Zoom?
	>> We do have Brian Charlson who raised his hand for Jeff.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  You will be the second speaker for Jeff and Brian.  Hang on to that if we need them.  
	All right.  Back to my first question.  This is so hard now.  Are will any other nominations from the floor?  This is the third and final time.  Wait.  We have to wait until I have the report?
	>> None in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Zero in the room.  All right.  Now you can do that.  
	>> [Away from microphone].
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Several people say the nomination should cease and Jeff bishop elected to the Board of Publications by account limb makes.  All for say aye.  
	>> Aye.  
	>> All opposed?  Okay.  Jeff.  
	>> JEFF BISHOP:  Thank you, ACB Media is definitely something I have a strong passion for and also to make sure we all have an equal voice throughout our publications and I also want to thank each and every one of you for allowing me to serve for the last eight years on the Board of Directors, and it is just a monumental occasion for me to do that, and it is allowed me to grow in any career, both professionally personally, and I thank each and every one of you for having the faith in me to be able to continue in this organization, as well as, I can't thank you more than enough.  So thank you very much.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  All right.  Thank you very much, Jeff.  And congratulations.
	Okay.  Now that creates another one.  All right.  So now, Jeff had one year left on his Board of Director's position, and so we will now be taking nominations from the floor for one year board position, formerly held by Jeff Bishop and are any nominations from the floor.  
	>> We have one in Zoom.  Sheila.  
	>> Good evening, Madam President, I would like to nominate Leslie, living in Georgia and currently President of Alabama Council of the Blind.  I would like to nominate her.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  You don't do your speech yet looking like a rousing second.  Not to worry.  Any other nominations from the floor?  If there are any -- caress Cecily, do you accept?
	>> Yes, ma'am.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  I thought so, very good.  Any other nominations from the floor or in Zoom for the one-year board position?
	>> There are no hands in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Okay.  For the second time, are there any nominations from the floor or in Zoom?
	>> There are no hands in Zoom.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Thank you.  And for the third and final time, any different nominations from the floor or in Zoom.  
	>> No hands in Zoom.  
	>> [Away from microphone].
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Now I will take that.  You guys are too quick.  All right.  It has been moved that nominations be closed and Cecily.  All for it say aye.  
	>> Aye.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Opposed.  None.  This is fun.
[Cheers and Applause] 
	>> I want to thank you for your confidence in me and want to thank for letting me fill this one year and my door is always open.  Thank you so much.  
	>> All right.  Thank you so much.  That's great.  
[Cheers and Applause]
	I have run out of elections, but not quite out of elections, we're almost done now.  Yes.  All right.  Now, I want to talk to you about where we are with Resolution 2023-16, which is the resolution that we took up on a Friday, as our last matter of business.
	At that time, there was an amendment proposed by Kony, and that amendment passed the hands vote, and then a record vote was requested.  So that record vote is scheduled to happen tomorrow, when individuals vote, and Monday for the delegate vote.  
	What we tried to do, or attempted to do, and actually talked through with people, was whether or not the voting task force want entirely certain, although, our standing rules did not permit us to have any more amendments on amendment after a record vote on a resolution.  They weren't sure that the language was as clear as it could be, so in case it was not, they did convene, and the parties making the original resolution and the parties who were involved in the amendment, and they did craft some compromise language, but meanwhile, in talking with our past Parliamentarian and her expertise around Roberts Rule of Order and the situation with our standing rules, she felt we were really required to accept the record vote as the final vote on that amendment.
	And that does not keep us from going back-- we would have to go back to either the past amendment, the previous resolution and if it failed, it would be the original resolution, and we could amendment the whereas clause, but the resolve clauses.  We left on Friday the proposal to consider the whereas clauses and at that time with John, and it could be introduced again.  
	So where we are now, is that we will be having the record vote as requested on the amendment by Kony, and by the agreement that we made earlier in the week regarding the reading of things that wore taking a while because our long recess, this evening, we'll have the reading of the amendment -- the amendment that Kony put forward.  
	When we actually need to have -- and I am not sure we have in the rerecorded material -- but what we really need to read is the original resolution and then the amended language because it is the amended language that we're actually voting on.  
	I am not sure, Rick.  If you only have the amendment, we may need to have Nancy Becker to read the original
	>> RICK MORIN:  We have the original and both of them.
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  I would like to have both read for the membership.  
[Audio-described video]
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  That's correct.  Can we listen to the other?  Oh, Spanish.  [Speaking Spanish].  
[Audio-described video]
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  I forgot about the -- [Speaking Spanish].  
	>> Deb, we apologize.  We did have the amendment recorded, but we cut it off early, so it would probably be most expedient if Nancy has the amendment she can read.  And it will probably be easier for her to do that rather than real it back.
	>> NANCY MARKS-BECKER:  Okay.  Now, therefore, be it resolved, American Council of the Blind will have the Executive Director write a letter for Board approval to ACB REP, and profound reject and disappointment -- moving forward with the certification and training without a formal authorization for ACB and stakeholders to participate in their stakeholder listening process, and further resolved that this organization calls upon the staff and Board of ACB REP to formerly act in meaningful and engaging dialogue with ACB and all shareholders and any further vote of the new OT training and certification.  
	>> There will be no discussion of this because that has already taken place.  We're prepared for the record vote of the.  
	We'll need to send -- I don't think we sent those out with today's packet, so we need to send those out with the packet for in the morning, so people can see them again as well.  
	If that can be added to the packet.  And then tomorrow, we'll be having the individual vote on the amendment and that will take place in the afternoon from what time?
	>> [Away from microphone].
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  What time, Nancy?
	>> NANCY MARKS-BECKER:  2-6 Central Time tomorrow, and Monday morning in our session, just after our corporate sponsors, et cetera, we'll be having our roll call vote, and that will be just on the amendment because we don't have any contested elections to vote in there, and it will be a little bit easier for our delegates and candidates who have been worried about this.  
	>> Madam President?  I would like to let you know that as of about an hour after tonight's session, the resolutions and the original amendment will be on ACB 10, and half an hour to hear the amendments on Media 10 and available on podcast.  
	>>  [Away from microphone].  So we need to work this out, yeah.  It should be -- I mean, we have them, so it shouldn't be -- we will.  
	>>  [Away from microphone]
	>> DEB COOK LEWIS:  Yeah.  Before the vote something my concern, yeah.  So people can make sure they read them because they will not be printed in full in the voting because the voting doesn't have room for that.
	All right.  I don't have any further business, is there any further business to come before the body this evening?
	>> Recess.  
	>>  Recess, we're not adjourning.  We're not done.  We'll be in recess until Monday morning and a few changes in the agenda because we will be potentially debating the main resolution on Monday.  We may be running late.  There are no lunches on Monday, so it is the perfect day for this.  People will be able to more readily stay, but we'll move through it and if we do as well as we did tonight.  We'll make it.
	I declare us in recess until Monday morning.  
[Cheers and Applause]
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