Los
Molinos Chamber Minutes(Approved)
January
9 2008
Meeting called to order at 6:40 pm
A small turnout on a rainy Wednesday did not
dampen our spirits, although, we did not have a quorum and had to table some of
our very cool ideas.
Those in attendance: President Betty Jo, Jan
& Dwayne Elmore, Clarissa Ortner, Mike Druey & Charles Githens.
We stood to honor our Flag & Country with the
pledge, routed a sign in sheet and President Betty read the minutes from our
last meeting on November 28th 2007. Since Jan had taken the
last minutes, it was more like story time than minutes being read into the
record. The minutes were accepted, approval pending, as we had no quorum.
Discussion on a variety of topics,
including:
- Parade
Project. Time to begin Parade
preparations. Step 1-go see insurance agent. Jan is in
training as Charlie’s back up for parade paperwork stuff, so they will
make the trip. Charles agreed that with the New Year and all, he
might have to use the phone a time or two in order to coordinate things.
- Website
Project. Adding meeting minutes to our
website. Web committee (Clarissa & Mike) progressing with their
tutorials for website maintenance. “It’s slow but coming
along”. Clarissa is taking care of immediate needs and corresponding
with the Webmaster on various and sundry issues.
- New
Memberships. Talk as to the best way to
receive, log and add new Chamber members to the Members Page.
Clarissa now knows how to locate Charles if she needs him: He’s at
Mill Creek Café on Wednesdays-center table. Clarissa had a few
ideas for acknowledging members, new & renewed. Decals, window
stickers, fridge magnets, etc…. has samples to show and tell at next
meeting.
- Installation
Dinner. We decided we needed to push the date
for the event forward a few weeks as time was, once again, getting away
from us. Too many unresolved questions regarding the dinner to stay
with the original date of February 11th. Since we had no
quorum, we called a voting member and put her on speaker phone-Sharron
Druey, and she made a motion to reschedule the Installation Dinner for
Monday, Feb 25th. Motion carried and approved. We
believe this was a first!
There will be a beer
& wine bar; smaller scale than the 60th Anniversary Party-less
booze. Jan agreed to be responsible for this aspect of the
function. There’s money in the ‘bar fund’. Still have a caterer
issue and Clarissa will be calling Linda for clear info as to whether or not
she’s still in business.
- River
Fest 2008. Discussed canceling the event
for 2008. Discussed keeping the event on calendar and have it, even
if it’s smaller than our goal. That way, we get to rehearse the
whole affair, dial in the community groups needed to pull it off and, in
general, be able to say we did it as a local event. The next year we
can then say ‘Second Annual’ on the banner! Dwayne & Betty will
get together after storm damage chores and talk about the necessary parts
to pull off a derby.
- Cancellation
Stamp Project. The post office will make us a
special commemorative cancellation stamp to honor our 40th Parade
Year. Need to get on the design and get that project rolling.
Discussed how to achieve it and Charles showed off the last one that was
done.
- Bylaws
Project. Mike suggested we finish up the
changes, make final previous changes and wrap it up! As our new Sgt
at Arms and Parliamentarian, he has his book of Roberts Rules at the
ready! Says it’s a bit of a dry read but important stuff nonetheless.
The items discussed that required a vote, we
temporarily called ‘Suggestions’.
‘Suggestions’ made:
- Transfer
funds from several misc. accounts to donate $$ for the use of The VFW Hall
and to cover the negative number in the ‘website’ fund.
- Approve
last meeting minutes.
- Higher
caterer and set the $price for installation dinner.
Our next Executive Meeting is scheduled for
01/30/08, Meeting of Members on for 02/13/08.
Meeting adjourned at 7:54 pm.
Jan Elmore
1/10/08