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ESTABLISHED 2006
Milton Disability Awareness Committee
Meeting Minutes
May 14, 2014
Committee Members In Attendance: Tass Welch, Nancilee Wolfe, Sue Sharp, Dudley Arnold and
Paul Schiell
MDAC Liaison: Sudie Gordon
Guests in Attendance: N / A
Tass Welch called the meeting to order and Paul Schiell seconded the motion. The motion passed
unanimously. (5-0)
Committee members reviewed and approved the meeting minutes from April 9,2014. Dudley Arnold
made the motion to approve the minutes and Paul Schiel! seconded the motion. The motion passed
unanimously. (5-0)
Old Business:
• The MDAC business packet has been fully revised and completed.
• MDAC is leaving some copies of this plan with Robyn MacDonald in the City Planning office .
New Business:
• Nancilee and Sue are both planning to be sworn in very soon.
* MDAC has a number of new materials now for presentations, festivals and other events.
• This includes a big state of the art banner with the MDAC logo.
• Fed Ex or UPS might possibly have a large plastic container we could safely store the banner
in.
• Committee members touched more on festivals and events that will be taking place in Milton
this year. The Crabapple Festival and the Christmas Festival are the most notable.
• A Blessing of the Pets will be held this September and the City of Milton is going to help
MDAC publicize that event.
• A practice r un of the pet blessing will take place in August.
• MDAC will be presenting Renee Catanzaro with a token of appreciation for all her years of
service to the committee.
• Paul touched on the committee possibly reaching out and partnering with some schools in
the area.
Nancilee mentioned a program called Communiteen that several students at Milton High •
School started a few years ago. Partnering with Community would connect MDAC to five or
six schools in this area.
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• Sue Sharp discussed the possibility of hosting an MDAC meeting in her store. This would
allow members ofthe community to learn more about MDAC and learn more about some life
enhancing products.
• MDAC is going to continue working on resource links and targeting more speaking
engagement opportunities.
• Nancilee also mentioned the possibility of MDAC compiling a list of all services and
resources in this area available to those with special needs. This would greatly help spread
information to Milton residents that is not always readily available.
• Tass mentioned that MDAC will be making posts on Facebook through the City of Milton
page. Committee members will be thinking about possible good posts for the near future.
• MDAC wants to continuing working with Better Together as the two have great synergy.
• Tass plans to invite Wayne Boston (of Better Together) to an upcoming MDAC meeting to
discuss more ways the two committees can make an impact together.
Tass Welch moved to adjourn the meeting. Paul Schiell motioned to adjourn and Dudley Arnold
seconded the motion. The vote was unanimous to adjourn. The next meeting is scheduled for
Wednesday, June 11, 2014.
Minutes Submitted By: Dudley Arnold
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Tass Welch, Chair
MDAC