Board Members Present: Sue Shultz, Marilyn Wandry, Dianne Juhl, Martin Knott, Denise Thomson, Pete Ball, Debbie Brockman, Cheryl Graf, and Susan Vitale-Olson.
Board Members Excused: Dayle Crane, Sally Olsen, Ramalina Steiner, Claire Bradley, and Martha Voorhees.

Board Members Not Excused:

Others Present: Joan Taie (Administrative Coordinator) and Kate Espy.

Cheryl Graf called the meeting to order.

I. Approval of Minutes: November minutes were approved.

II. Financial Report: Volunteer sheets were turned in. A P&L statement for 11/28 - 12/18 was provided and explained by Joan Taie.

III. Committee Reports

A. Program -
Next Meeting on the 19th 9a.m @ the YWCA. Setting a date for awards event in April will be the subject. The date will be scheduled around the Women of Achievement Meeting so they are not on the same day.

B. Community Education
Cheryl reported that the training for the new Cencom operators went well. It was held on December 1st. About 20 people attended. The training included 2 hours on DV sexual assault and 2 hours on the legal perspective. The students all want to be included on emails and/or mail to receive information about upcoming events, newsletters, etc. Cheryl is going to get their contact information to Joan. Susan Vitale-Olson suggested that they should also receive CPS training so the dispatchers will know what information is needed for CPS to be able to properly respond to each situation. The need to re-train present dispatchers was discussed. Cencom receives over 20,000 DV calls a year.

2. Topic Specific Workgroups
a. Bridging the Gap: No report
b. Faith Community Action Group: There was no meeting in November. No report.
c. Substance Abuse Providers: No report
d. RESPECT Kitsap Youth: (Denise) There is a meeting Friday December 21st. About 6 people are usually attending the meetings. We offered free training at the HRC on the 5th and had really good feedback.
f. Perpetrator Treatment/Victim's Services: No Report.
g. Minority Services - Dianne stated that the slow response time for Spanish speaking individuals is due to the lack of bilingual services for the Cencom operators. There are a few but not enough. The AT&T translator is available and used but is slow. Dianne is also working on getting a person from the Minority Services nominated to the DV Board.

C. Membership - Cheryl announced that Sally Olson would be resigning from the board. She has been asked to chair the HRC. It was a very difficult decision for her to make. She will be missed. There is a possibility that upon occasion, with plenty of notice, she will still be available to do some speaking.

Debbie has shown an interest in stepping up to the Chair position, Denise - Vice-Chair, Marilyn as Sec. And Susan remaining in the Treasurer position. If there is any other nominations please email them by 1/1 to Cheryl, Ramalina or Dayle with a cc to Joan. Also let Cheryl and Joan know via email what you really want to do in regards to Board and Program positions.

IV. Old Business

A. Joan and Dayle updated everyone on the Community Mobilization Evaluation project. They asked for questions from the board that they felt would be useful. Dianne had a couple and everyone else would email theirs to Joan. The next meeting is December 20th at noon at the Prudential NW Real Estate office in Port Orchard on Bethel.

B. Email Joan any Agenda items for the Summit.

V. New Business- No new business reported

VI. Updates

A. The next Program meeting will be on the 16th of January at 9AM with the Exec Board meeting following at 10:30 A.M. Both will be held at the YWCA.

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,

Joan Taie
Administrative Coordinator