November 28, 2000 12 p.m.

Silverdale Lutheran Church

Board Members Present: Susan Vitale-Olson, Martha Voorhees, Dean Logan, Dianne Juhl, Pete Ball, John Lee

Board Members Excused: Ramalina Steiner, Claire Bradley, Cheryl Graf, Denise Thomson, Debbie Brockman, Dayle Crane

Board Members Unexcused: Sally Olsen

Others Present: Heidi Hoke (Administrative Coordinator), Sue Nolan (Financial Coordinator)

The meeting was called to order by Administrative Coordinator, Heidi Hoke.

I. Minutes:
The October minutes were approved as written.

II. Treasurer’s Report:
The financial report from October was submitted. Two grants have been written and are ready to mail out. The final Summit report was submitted. The net income was $2,997.11. We had budgeted for a net of $3,000.

III. Committee Reports:

A. Program Committee:
Notes were submitted from the 11/15/00 meeting. The next meeting will be December 13, 9 a.m. at the YWCA.
1. Network: The December meeting has been cancelled. The January meeting will be used for brainstorming future meetings.
2. Summit: Crossroads Church was surprised and excited to receive our donation. We relayed to them how much a success the Summit was and thanked them for the use of the facility.
3. Board Retreat: February 9, 2001 at Long Lake in Port Orchard from 12 - 5 p.m.
4. Quarterly Forum: Next meeting will be January 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the Silverdale Lutheran Church. The movie “Tough Guise” will be shown.
5. The KCDVTF Community Awards program will be during the April Quarterly Forum.

B. Community Education:
1. Dispute Resolution Center Grant: The DRC has met with Dean, Sally, and Dayle to discuss plans for their training. They will be meeting again next week. Dianne asked if Faith providers are referring people to the DRC. Dean didn’t think it was a very significant number.
2. Speakers: no report.
3. Training/Topic Specific
a. CPS: no report.
b. Bridging the Gap: The next meeting will be December 14 at 4 p.m. at the Jury Holding Room.
c. Faith Community Action Group: Dianne is going to a conference on Restorative Justice for The Center. Bainbridge Island is looking for safe houses. Results from the Faith Evaluation are in (see Dianne for details). A speaking engagement is scheduled in December for the First Baptist Church in Port Orchard and the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Bainbridge Island in January. Heidi passed out the article by Keith Beebe which mentioned a talk provided to his congregation about DV - it appeared in the NK Herald.
d. Substance Abuse Providers: In reference to an article in the paper, Martha wanted to clarify that there are other places besides the YWCA that take in DV victims for housing. The YWCA though is the only one where DV is priority one. A training was held for the YWCA about DV and chemical dependency.
e. Youth Violence : Dianne mentioned that The Center is making a new video about dating violence entitled “Love...All That And More”. It will be coming out next year. Perhaps we could have a movie showing/premier.
f. Victim’s Services/Perpetrator Treatment: no report.

C. Membership: Interviews are being scheduled for the interested parties.

IV. Old Business:
A. Executive Board Nominations: Dean reported that Dayle is not interested in another term as Chair. Cheryl has volunteered to run for Chair, Denise for Secretary, and Debbie for a second term as Treasurer. This leaves us without a Vice-Chair. Martha volunteered to take on the position of Treasurer if Debbie wanted to step up to Vice-Chair. The vote for Executive Board officers will take place at the January board meeting.

V. New Business:

VI. Updates
A. SAIVS: no report.
B. It was recommended that we should add “Shelter” to our agenda each meeting so we can talk about housing needs.
C. Sue reported that the Substance Abuse Prevention Celebration held each April is considering adding other issues, including Domestic Violence. If anyone is interested in being on a committee to help with this, you can contact Ginger Lancaster at Project Family (373-3030).

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,

Heidi Hoke

Administrative Coordinator