DCRA Annual Meeting
April 24, 2007
6:00 p.m.
New Castle County Courthouse
12th
Floor Conference Room
In attendance:
Adam Miller, president; Patty Ganci, vice president:
Pat
Miller, executive director; Jeanne Cahill, secretary; Neith Ecker, treasurer: Bernadette Black- Berardinelli, Lynne Coale,
Kathy Feldman, Jim Pavone, Patrick O'Hare, Dennel Niezgoda, John Donnelly, Rob Wilcox, Jr., Ginny Ritter, Bob Ritter, Patty Shelton, Kurt Fetzer and Vince Bailey.
Before our business meeting began, our guest speaker, New
Castle County Superior Court Judge Fred Silverman gave a presentation entitled "Court Reporting for the New Millennium." He offered a brief history on court reporting, along with a few ideas to make ourselves
indispensable in the future.
The meeting was called to order by Adam Miller, president.
Roll call of officers and members.
Motion to dispense with the reading of the minutes of the
Annual Meeting held April 4, 2006, was made by Jeanne Cahill and seconded by Kurt Fetzer; so moved and accepted.
Report of President, Adam D. Miller:
Adam and Pat Miller discussed their experience at NCRA's
Legislative Boot Camp, where they learned how to lobby for reporters' issues, including the Training for Realtime Writers'
Act, Senate Bill 675. This Bill would provide $100 million toward training captioners, CART reporters and other realtime writers. All members were encouraged to call our Senator to show our support.
Adam and Pat attended the NCRA leadership seminar, in November.
Since Adam has been elected to be a board member, Patty
Ganci will take over the presidency of DCRA until our next election.
Adam advised that Delaware has the highest percentage of
NCRF "angel" supporters of any state association.
Adam asked for volunteer's for University of Delaware Career
Awareness Program. Kurt Fetzer may be interested.
Presentation of Secretary’s Report: No new business.
Presentation of Treasurer’s Report: Balance of $6,580.51.
Board of Director’s Report: No new business.
Reports of Committees:
Legislative: No new business, except as addressed in President's Report.
Education: Pat Miller can be reached at 449-0528 or stenoteach@yahoo.com
if any reporters want training or have reporting questions.
Unfinished Business:
The affiliation agreement with PCRA was reviewed. Membership
is $95 per year in addition to $30 DCRA dues. PCRA has two seminars yearly at no charge for Delaware Affiliated members where
you can get CEU credits. We are committed to pay for 10 members per year.
New
business: No new business.
New business from the floor:
Ginny Ritter had questions about whether captioning is required
to be provided in areas with under a threshold population figure. Pat Miller
agreed to find out and discuss it with her.
Thanks was given to Bernadette Black-Berardinelli for attending
as a representative from PCRA.
There being no further business, Ginny Ritter moved
that the meeting adjourn, Patty Ganci seconded; all members present in favor, so moved and accepted.
Meeting adjourned at 7:15 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Jeanne Cahill, DCRA secretary
