BOARD RETREAT
March 23, 2004
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Long Lake, Port Orchard

Board Members Present: Sue Shultz, Susan Vitale-Olson, Laurie Adamson, Kelly Pelland, Jody Stewart, Martha Voorhees, Susan Dewees, Tracy Flood, Dave Bell, Denise Thomson, Dave Skelton, Sharlyne Hays, Debbie Brockman, Lauren Fanning, Sandy Robbins, Oudy Acosta Perez.

Board Members Excused: Claire Bradley, Laurie Adamson

Board Members Not Excused:

Others Present: Joan Taie, Administrative Coordinator

Sue opened the meeting with introductions.

Board Planning: Exec. Board Voting: Votes were tallied for the new Executive Officers. The winners are: Sue Shultz; Chair, Sandy Robbins; Vice-Chair, Dave Skelton; Treasurer, Susan Dewees; Secretary.

Attendance: Sue talked about the expectations of the board and how important it is to attend board meetings

Donations: Our board is a 100% giving board and each member is asked to give at least one donation a year to the DVTF. Any amount helps. Committees: Sue listed all committees and asked the board to write their names under the committee they would like to help with. The board then re-organized the committees making some sub-committees and added others. Here is the new committee list including times, dates and interested members:

Faith - Meets 2nd Tuesday YWCA 11:30 (Jody & Tracy)

Treatment - Meets 3rd Thursday Location TBD (Jody, Lauren, Sharlyne, Susan D., Debbie)

*Program Committee - 1st Wed @ YWCA 11:30 (Sharlyne, Debbie, Dave S, Kelly, Sandy, Dave B, Oudy)

RESPECT: Meets 3rd Friday 8:30 @ Silverdale Bakery (Susan V-O, Sandy, Sue Shultz)

Minority: 2nd Wed. 2:00 @ Public Works PO (Tracy, Benny, Oudy, Susan D)

*Community Outreach: 1st Wed, noon @YWCA (SVO, Sue S, Debbie, Sharlyne, Lauren, Sandy, Jody, Joan, Dave S, Martha, Dave B. )

Juvy DV: No mtg time set (SVO, Kelly)

Medical: No mtg time set (Sandy, Debbie)

Fund Raising: Meets with Program (Sub-committee) (Dave S, Oudy, Benny, Tracy)

Gaps: Meets 1st Thursday @ Child Services in PO (Oudy, Sharlyne, Debbie, Susan D, Tracy, Kelly, Lauren, Dave B)

Board Meeting 4th Tuesday @ Health Dist Office Noon

GOALS:

Priority was set on: 1.Summit 2. Grants 3.Community Education 4. Picnic 5. Rebuild Committees 6. Office space

Profit & Loss was handed out and explained by Joan

Committee updates:

DV Brown Bag Network: Consolidated into Community Outreach

*Community Outreach: Reorganized to now include: The Network, Speakers bureau, Chemical dependency and DV, newsletter and Web page all under one Committee. There will be speakers training for board members in the near future.

Program Committee Upcoming events: Awards banquet May 25, 2004 from 6:30pm-8:00pm Silverdale Lutheran Church. Nominations must be received no later than May 3rd. Can fax nomination if need be to the YWCA, attention Debbie or Susan, Fax # 360-479-0484.

Annual picnic July 27th, Evergreen Park 5pm till ? Board meeting to begin at 4pm at the park. Looking for donations of food, drink, handouts, etc.

Summit tentatively set for Oct. 1st at Crossroads Church. Currently working on some good ideas for a topic. Ie; Generational violence, How the cycle continues and the effects on families. Discussing having a keynote speaker and returning to the break out session format. More details to follow at a later date.

Faith Committee No Report

Respect Group: Currently working with the Jr and Sr. High School to do a poster contest in the fall of 2004 with the theme being teen dating violence. Will have prizes and looking into the cost of having the winning poster printed up and distributed to schools throughout the county. Seeking donations for both the prizes and the printing costs. The drama group no longer doing the play. The Dating game will be brought back.

DV Perpetrator Treatment Coalition: No report

Bridging the Gaps. Debbie Brockman and Kelly Pelland revisiting this group. Next meeting set for May 6th at 4:45 pm. Office of Support Enforcement Building. Will be surveying the judges in our county to determine what the hest time to meet is noon or after hours.

Minority Services Committee: Since there last meeting they have learned that Suquamish tribe has revised their domestic violence protection orders and return of service forms to match those used by the county. This should simplify the process of entering and locating of Tribal orders in the State and County computer systems. The next step is to address the issue of serving Tribal orders to the tribal member who is in Kitsap County jail. Also plan to continue outreach to S'Klallam Tribe in the future to do the same thing.

Respectfully submitted,

Joan Taie
Administrative Assistant