RNZFB Chair’s Report April 2017 Hello All Here is Rick Hoskin’s Chair’s report for the months of March and April 2017. This report provides some detail of the matters that the Board has been involved with over the last two months. It also contains information about the items discussed at the recent April Board meeting. As always I remind people that if you want a full account of what occurred at the Board meeting, then the draft minutes of that meeting held on 29 April will be available through the telephone information service, on library CD, e-mail on request, or by contacting the Board Secretary on 09 355 6894. Please ask for a copy of these minutes and keep up-to-date with the matters that we are looking at on your behalf. The headings are: Engagement Road Show Meetings 2017 Constitutional Review Committee The work of the Governance, Policy and Committees Blind Foundation business plan for the year ending 30 June 2018 Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund A new service model - Integrated Client Pathways Engagement Road Show Meetings 2017 A programme of engagement road show meetings has been developed for 2017. This year, it is proposed that we visit 13 cities and towns throughout the country. At present the questions have not been worked out, but as usual there will always be time set aside at the end of the meeting for people to ask questions or give feedback on any topic they choose. The Board has requested that we ensure the Engagement Road Show Programme is run economically, and to this end, not every town that we visited last year will be visited in 2017. However, there is still the option to join in with another meeting, an example being that folk who live in Rotorua can attach themselves to either the Taupo or Tauranga meetings. The proposed venues for 2017 are Auckland Central, Auckland West, Tauranga, Taupo, Napier, New Plymouth, Kapiti, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Timaru, Central Otago and Dunedin. RNZFB Constitutional Review Committee My reports over the last 18 months have told you about the review of our constitution. We have now received feedback on our first draft and the explanatory document. The feedback is being included in our on-going thinking and a further iteration of the
RNZFB Chair’s Report April 2017 Hello All Here is Rick Hoskin’s Chair’s report for the months of March and April 2017. This report provides some detail of the matters that the Board has been involved with over the last two months. It also contains information about the items discussed at the recent April Board meeting. As always I remind people that if you want a full account of what occurred at the Board meeting, then the draft minutes of that meeting held on 29 April will be available through the telephone information service, on library CD, e-mail on request, or by contacting the Board Secretary on 09 355 6894. Please ask for a copy of these minutes and keep up-to-date with the matters that we are looking at on your behalf. The headings are: Engagement Road Show Meetings 2017 Constitutional Review Committee The work of the Governance, Policy and Committees Blind Foundation business plan for the year ending 30 June 2018 Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund A new service model - Integrated Client Pathways Engagement Road Show Meetings 2017 A programme of engagement road show meetings has been developed for 2017. This year, it is proposed that we visit 13 cities and towns throughout the country. At present the questions have not been worked out, but as usual there will always be time set aside at the end of the meeting for people to ask questions or give feedback on any topic they choose. The Board has requested that we ensure the Engagement Road Show Programme is run economically, and to this end, not every town that we visited last year will be visited in 2017. However, there is still the option to join in with another meeting, an example being that folk who live in Rotorua can attach themselves to either the Taupo or Tauranga meetings. The proposed venues for 2017 are Auckland Central, Auckland West, Tauranga, Taupo, Napier, New Plymouth, Kapiti, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Timaru, Central Otago and Dunedin. RNZFB Constitutional Review Committee My reports over the last 18 months have told you about the review of our constitution. We have now received feedback on our first draft and the explanatory document. The feedback is being included in our on-going thinking and a further iteration of the
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