Los Molinos Chamber
Executive Meeting Minutes
June 25, 2008
(See June 11 minutes following these)
The Chamber’s ‘Executive
Meeting’ was called to order at 6:39 pm.
Reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance were Jeannie & Ron Gallagher, Mike & Sharron Druey,
Walter Dodd, Treasurer Charles Githens, President Betty Joe Morales and Jan
Elmore.
We had no guests but
we did have a quorum.
Past meeting minutes were
read into the record with a correction to date & time fireworks sales are
allowed to begin. Kudos plus an “Atta
Girl” was given to Jan Elmore for her willingness to pitch in on meeting minute
taking for those times when Secretary Barbara is unavailable. Ron Gallagher commented he likes the details
Jan’s minutes contain as it allows him to catch up on our goings-on when work
keeps him from attending.
Treasurer Charles gave his
report for the Chamber and the VFW Independence Day Parade accounts and
indicated that all the coins have been procured for both the parade hand outs
and the ‘Play Day-in-The-Park’ activities.
There will be another press release submitted for the parade start time
and the Play Day schedule of events.
Mr. Dodd gave his
legislative report. Some of our
legislative information related to voter turnout in our June primary for Tehama
County. The demographics regarding
‘votes per party line’ and who won were covered. Walter made mention of holding a ‘Candidates Night’ in late
September or early October and suggested inviting all those running for
positions at the local level as well as state & federal races; such as City
Council-Corning, LMHS board openings and Special District candidates.
Mr. Dodd covered the
highlights from the most recent Tehama County Board of Supervisors
activities. They announced the
preliminary budget for 2008/09 at 126.5 million dollars with the final budget
expected in September or October. One
of the budget items is raises for elected County officials and the County
Supervisors. More on that July 15th.
For ballot consideration
there are 2 items worth mentioning:
1.
A Charter amendment to
change back to closed district elections for each member of the Board which
would be effective in 2010.
2.
Changing to the method
of a Grand Jury recommendation for salary matters pertaining to the Board of
Supervisors.
Discussion followed
regarding the Board’s current salary and benefits package.
The Mayor’s Race
received a write up in the newspaper and candidate activities were briefly
covered.
Thanks to a terrific work
party on June 14th, the ‘Fireworks Wagon’ is all spiffed up
and ready for action. Betty’s family
members & friends really worked hard raking and cleaning, sweeping and
scrubbing. A follow-up work party on
June 21st finished putting the wagon back together & getting it
moved into place. We prepared our big
mobile signs that advertise our fireworks are better than the other guys!
The shipment of fireworks
was inventoried and the support gear located and made ready for use. Mike Druey
worked the computer keyboard and has all our parade entries lined up like
little soldiers and ready to march.
Many thanks were extended to our volunteers who show up for these most
important work days; without them and their efforts none of the Chamber events
could take place!
Of course, the topic of
conversation turned to the sale of fireworks and whether the CDF Chief
will cancel all sales. The Governor asked all Californians to refrain from
buying fireworks in these dry conditions as 700 fires burn throughout the
state. The Chamber decided to carry on
as usual and get our ‘wagon inspection’ on Saturday the 28th, taking a ‘wait
& see’ position.
Charles is expecting
delivery on the 15 x 25 Flag in plenty of time for our Parade; white
gloves need to be located at the VFW Hall.
Finishing touches made to the “Things-To-Do’ chores list; who is where
and why. We believe we have it covered
and have dialed in the chores as best we can.
‘All hands on deck’ if you can volunteer your time to make our 40th
Anniversary Parade the best ever!
We will try again next year
for a military fly over for the start of our parade and another application
will be made for the Budweiser Draft Horse appearance. Parade entries to date; about 45-50 with
many more expected the last week as is typical. All parade entries must be in the Chamber office by July 3rd
at noon. After that deadline, you still
can be in the parade but will not be judged.
On the subject of the
Library having to close when it gets hot, we heard from the landlord about the
bids to install an air conditioner and upgrade the electrical. We explored possible grant opportunities and
discussed the information that the Los Molinos Woman’s Club may be
interested in sponsoring a fund raiser as they were instrumental in getting a
County Library branch for our town many years ago.
As these things go; many new
bits of info has surfaced. And the
project of getting an air conditioner for the library is complicated by facts
such as, the lease will run out next April.
The library has reached the point where more square feet are
necessary. The notion of relocating the
library to another site in town is very much a possibility.
A community fund raiser in
conjunction with grant applications is a very big deal. It requires much effort on the part of
many. The possibility of achieving our
goal and having the library move out before the ac unit would even be used
would be disappointing to all concerned.
So Betty has introduced everyone to everyone who may be a player in this
project and turned it over to the County Librarian, Caryn Brown, who takes it
from here and we’ll see what happens.
The Postal Service will have
a booth set up near the Judging Stand and Fireworks Sales Wagon on July 4th
and at Play-Day-in-the-Park to cancel stamps with our special Cancellation
Stamp recognizing our 40 years: A Sentimental Journey! Thanks again to Clarissa for her efforts to
make this happen!
In announcements, Betty
reminds us all about the Farmers Markets around the community; Wednesday
evenings in front of the Courthouse and Saturday mornings at the Red Bluff
River Park.
Remember: Chamber meetings are held on
Wednesdays-second Wednesday for the ‘Meeting of Members’ and the last Wednesday
for our ‘Executive Meeting’.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
–
SHERWOOD BLVD. AND STATE HWY 99E
– MILL CREEK PARK
–
CHAMBER OFFICE
–
CHAMBER OFFICE
Our meeting adjourned at
8:04 pm with folks signing up for shifts and chores not yet spoken for. A swell bunch of dedicated, really nice self
employed people who find the time to give a little bit back to the community in
an effort to help make our town always better!
Respectfully,
Jan Elmore, Substitute
Minute Taker
Los Molinos Chamber of
Commerce
Meeting of Members
06/11/08
Our
meeting was called to order at 6:39 pm with attendance taken and the Pledge of
Allegiance recited to honor our Country. Those present were President
Betty Morales, Sergeant at Arms Mike Druey, Treasurer Charlie Githens, Board
Members Shelley Patchen, Clarissa Ortner, Jeannie Gallagher, and
We
had no guests and no minutes from our last Executive Meeting. Those
minutes will be read at the next Executive Meeting on Wednesday June 25th.
Topics
for our meeting centered on the Mayors Race and our Independence Day
Parade activities and Chamber Fireworks sales.
The
Mayor’s Race is in full swing with the ‘Candidate’s Jar Displays’
deployed throughout our business community. The jars will be collected on
Monday, June 30th and delivered to Umpqua Bank for counting at
noon.
Mayor
candidate Shelley Patchen announced she’s has a couple of very nice raffles as
part of her fund raising activities with tickets available at Nu Way
Market. Her car wash was successful with the community showing up with
some very big, very dirty trucks to be washed! She’s also putting on a
Spaghetti Dinner for June 21st at 6 pm.
Mayor
candidate Rob Morales will host a BBQ & car wash near the end of June and
candidate
We
even got word that we already have an interested party wanting to run in our
2009 Mayor’s Race-how cool is that?
Annual
Chamber Fireworks Sales always begin with a work party to clean the
wagon! This event set for Saturday, June 14th-first half of
the day to avoid the heat. The main objective is to move out the spiders
and just say no to dust; we’ll air up the tires and service Mr. Swampy and get
it ready for operation. Charles and his Posse will prepare the marquee
with our annual advertisement to ‘support the Chamber’ and buy fireworks from
us….not those other guys! There is a lot to do to get ready for our
biggest fund raiser of the year. All volunteers welcome. The sign
up sheet is available so please contact Betty Jo to sign up for a 3 hour shift
for firework sales in the wagon; it’s lots of fun!
Charles
is reaching out to the Kiwanis Club by speaking at their next breakfast
meeting. The topic will be the VFW Independence Day Parade and the operations
behind putting it together each year! Perhaps they will want to
participate in some parade chores! There’s plenty to go around.
The
Parade-To-Do-List was made up. We still need volunteers to help
receive the shipment of fireworks from Phantom. If interested in
volunteering for any Parade and/or Playday-In-The-Park activities, please
contact President Betty.
Video and still photography
is still planned for the parade. We would like to video the parade and
make it available on disc. Clarissa will be taking photos of parade
entrants.
The
Parade Coins are almost ready. Charles will be talking to the bank
about
The
Playday-In-The-Park-To-Do-List was made up. Again, plenty of chores
to go around. The more help the more assured we are of another very
successful Playday. The main activities are: Games, BBQ and the
Award Presentations.
Rob
Morales of Robs Recycling will once again MC our event much to
everyone’s pleasure! Rumor has it he’ll be sporting a new Tuxedo this
year.
In
the new business and continued business categories,
We
received an update on the issue of air conditioning for the Library
building. Betty has been in contact with Tom Nagos, the building owner,
via e-mail and the news was good. Tom has already been in touch with the
Librarian and has sought bids for a unit to be installed. He indicated
he’d sponsor a portion of the bill and liked the idea of community involvement
and possible fund raisers to cover the balance of the tab. Of course,
until the bids are in, we have no way of knowing just what that balance may be.
We
heard from Clarissa, chairman of the Stamp Cancellation Project that our
Stamp came in and John at the Post Office has it now. This is big
news. We will be honoring the 40th Anniversary of our
Independence Day Parade by having the US Postal Service cancelling stamps
through the Fourth of July; create a collectible!
The
VFW is
acquiring a very big flag to be used in future parades. It’s a
nice addition to the tradition we have and are continuing to create for our
community.
There
has been an offer of donation to the Chamber. An old pick-up truck
bed turned trailer. It’ll make a nice addition to the Chamber and can be
used for many things; hauling our ‘special event signs’, parade gear, equipment
used for Playday-In-The-Park and such. Jeannie G suggested that the high
school shop class could make a project of fixing it up by practicing their shop
skills of welding and painting! We can then affix a plaque that
recognizes their efforts; it’s a win-win all the way around. The Chamber
agreed to accept the donation kindly offered by Mike & Sharron Druey and
Becky MacFarland.
Clarissa
Ortner found quite the deal while on vacation. She donated a large
quantity of Christmas Photo Greeting Cards which are ideal for our ‘Santa’s
Visit’ project each year. Thank you Clarissa for thinking about us while
off having a fun time!
Before
reading Announcements, Betty suggested the Chamber consider coming up with an award
or scholarship which could be included in the line up of awards for the
high school graduating class. After attending the Awards Ceremony at the
high school, she was thinking, like she usually is, about how the Chamber might
honor a high school student whose goal is to focus on business or a
trade school curriculum; more discussion later on this topic.
Announcements
were read and the meeting adjourned at 8:05 pm. Our next meeting is the
Executive Meeting on Wednesday, June 25th at 6:30 pm at the Chamber
office.
Respectfully,