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-007 COMMISSION FOR WOMEN ANNUAL REPORT, 1984-85 Page 3 Programs. Judy McNeil served as 1st vice-Chair and Program Chair until October, 1984. Judy Eastman assumed these responsibilities in February 1985. An installation of new members and officers was held in July at Alexander's Restaurant in Durham. Beverly Blythe, Clerk to the Commissioners, pertained the swearing-in ceremony. • The October 1984 and January 1985 meetings included speakers from the Central Piedmont Employment and Training Office and the Employment Security Commission. They discussed the Job Training Partnership Acts Florrie Glasser spoke at the March, 1985 meeting on flexible fringe benefits. This program informed members about the research of the Commission's Employment Task Force, chaired by Lani Cartier. Connie Renz and Fred Stang spoke on behalf of the Orange/Durham Coalition - for Battered Women in- April. The Commission adopted a resolution to the • legislature endorsing expanded funds for domestic violence programs. In May, the JTPA Committee, co-chaired by Claudine Harris and Alice Holt, presented an interim report. Laura Yost reviewed population program data.and responded to questions from Commission members. Sylvia Price, Director of the Orange County Economic Development Commission, spoke in June. She discussed how increased business expansion can improve em- ployment opportunities for women and the role the Commission might play in supporting appropriate business development. III. ACTIVITIES Employment Task Force. Commission member Evelyn Poole-Kober and private sector representative Audrey Evarts chaired this committee until November, 1984 when Ms. Kober resigned from the Commission. Lani Cartier, who was appointed to take her place, provided able leadership as the Co-Chair representing the Commission. Judy Eastman was appointed to the Committee in August. The Task Force produced and distributed a survey on fringe benefits to about 120 Orange County employers. More than 90 responses were received and entered in the County's computer for tabulation. The Employee Benefit Research Institute of Washington, D. C. , was contacted for nationwide research results and publications on fringe benefits. From the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, a commercial video tape was borrowed and, through the generosity of the Village Companies, reproduced for the Commission's library. Catawba County, identified as having a flexible fringe benefit package for all county government employees, sent a detailed description of- its plan. In addition, several identified private sector employers were contacted for information regarding flexible fringe benefits.