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GVAD’S ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Kim: Now, next AGM. It will be on November 30, 2018. Where WIDHH here downstairs basement.
Chris: (agreed) here downstairs
Kim: Since we seen and heard from Senior citizens and people sharing stories about what happened since they used basement. They came in to party, often. You know that this building is old. Our board felt that we should come here for AGM. What more, there will be a small “Open House”. There are a lot of the old trophies from the past in the basement. Also there are old TTYs, a lot of things like old sports stuff. We invite all of you, GVAD members to come and decide to do with things. We got a few ideas from a few people. Give you one example. There are a lot of trophies on the shelves. Whole Trophies are waste space. Pull the plates out from the trophies. Plates look like what year, who won, etc. Put the plates on the wood boards. One wood board will make up like baseball plates. (Throw trophies out.)
There are a lot of achieves in the basement. We felt not right that we should make decision about those things. We feel that those things like history or achieves are belonging to you, GVAD members. Let us know what you want to do on specific things and use them for the future and our next generation.
Chris: will move to new building in the future. Currently, we will let WIDHH know that all of you, GVAD members want things into new building. WIDHH will know and ensure all of you to feel happy about building arrangements.
Kim: Right, we expect less storage. There are two storages, one storage under the stairs and other storage in the hall. When moving to the new building, there will be small storage. We do not know right now. The new building is currently in processing of the renovation. We do not know yet about the details. We will find more about the details, la
Some of you did not pay memberships at the Cornfest, last September.
You need to buy the membership. You will need membership forms and email us at gvadoffice@gmail.com for requesting the membership forms. We will send you the membership forms. You can fill them out and use them on electronic email to send us back. We currently accept our new
E-transfer for paying the membership. You will use gvadoffice@gmail.com to do E-transfer. Your transfer will go to our GVAD email. Right now, your options are: three year memberships will cost $25.00. One year membership will cost $10.00. For Senior Citizen, 65 year old and up are FREE. Also, youth, up to 25 year old are FREE. All are the same, no change. Except the WIDHH memberships cost $7.50, we removed them from our membership form. Because WIDHH would not practice on that, anymore. WIDHH changed the bylaws. So we changed it, a little.
We are currently having our technology problem, due to the mailchips. Since we worked on new members list and removed old members list. Have problem with uploading. We are currently fixing them and we hopefully finish the uploading by tonight or tomorrow.
Our Media team work on that. When the uploading is successful, we will automatedly send the AGM packages to all by email. If you will not receive the AGM package. Please let us know. We will send one to you.
Thank you!

Transcrpt typed by Christopher Polson

Transcript:

Kim: Hello, Kim here and

Chris: Chris here, as Vice President

Kim: We are here to let  you all know about our AGM and workshop, as you all know every year we always have workshop and AGM in one same day, This year both of them are being seperated, which the workshop will be happening this Thursday, Nov 22nd. The workshop topic will be why do we need DI (Deaf Interpreter) and what our rights to request for DI. The reason why the board picked this topic, is that we noticed this pops up in our community, thinking that DI is for only for DeafBlind, which are not true.

Chris: No,No. ( shakes his head)

Kim: Actual its not true, Anyone of us you, Chris, anyone can  ask for DI, have every right to ask for DI.  This will happen on Nov 22, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Which will be Live Streamed for BC. We will have two other groups. One  in OVAD’s area, and one in Vancouver Island at their IDHHC new building.at the same time 6;30 pm to 8;30 pm. One exception for OVAD, they will have Dinner gathering 5:30 pm before the workshop live streaming starts. If you are interested in OVAD’s, please contact Gordon Rattray for that information.

The presenter is Tim Mallach, with his over 10 years of working in Deaf Interpreter field, from Ontario which you all know.  He has different experience in interpreting in many different situations. He will be doing the presentation and we would be also doing group discussions, For our location here in Greater Vancouver, we will be in Douglas College, New Westminister  Campus. The groups on Vancouver Island and OVAD will have their own discussions, We all will be able to share our group discussions on Live Streaming and for those who are living up  north, they can still participate in the discussion and asking question, we will have someone sit by the Ipad and watch for questions and then Tim will be able to answer questions. Watch for our live streaming on GVAD Facebook. We all can openly discussion on the DI which is for whole province of BC.

Kim: Hope to see you all there!