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Chapter Minutes

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Glacial Ridge Chapter Minutes

Sunday August 31, 2008 Meeker County Fairgrounds

Officers Attending:

President: Boyd Fiebelkorn
Vice President: Vonnie Smith
Secretary: Becky McBeth
Treasurer: Todd Lund
State Rep: Deano Meehan
Sergeant @ Arms: Hollywood
Hives
Ozzy

Members Present: 41
Guests Present: Several

Meeting called to order at 6:00 pm

Drawing for the Raffle1

1st Place- Don Gustafson
2nd Place-David Schmaltz
3rd Place- Rachel Hanzlic
4th Place- Joe Tensen
5th Place- Paul Syverson
6th Place- John Naig
7th Place- Paul Jepkes

Secretary Report~ August meeting minutes were read and a motion to accept the minutes was made by Desi and seconded by Jari and passed by oral vote.

Treasurers Report~ Todd:

General account: $
Gambling account: $
We made $510.00 selling ABATE U raffle tickets
Motion to accept treasurer’s report made by Mike, seconded by Charlene and passed by oral vote.

President’s Report~ no report to give, but wants to thank everyone who volunteered at the Rally.

Vice President’s report~ Vonnie just wanted to say thank you for the volunteers who did the security shift

State Reps Report~ Deano:

New law passed about the license plates being vertical and not hanging from chains or horizontal.
District meeting September 20th in Slayton.

Government Relations Liaison~ not here

Public Relations/Historian~ No report

Gambling Report~ Hives

We sold ¾ of the chapter raffle tickets.

Events Committee~ Mark

Mark wants to retire. Still no one to replace him as of yet. We need someone to step up to the plate and relieve Mark of this.

PGR Update~ Vince - More support is needed.

Website~ Warren

Send info for the site

Old Business:

Passed the hat -cost deference for the rental of the tent for State Rally
Need more ideas for the distribution of Buddy Bears.

New Business:

Sedan Days-need to show some support for Tony and staff for all they have done for the chapter

Open Discussion:

Writing the Grapevine- Spoon volunteered
Old St. Nicholas Day is scheduled for the first Saturday of December
Volunteers for decorating refreshments and such.
The elves this year will be Mary, Marcy and Ozzy
Get out and get donations (apples, oranges, peanuts and candy canes)
Homemade cookies from seniors?
Possible air time, advertising, road noise
Pete made a motion to spend 500 dollars for Old St. Nick day, seconded by Warren
Discussion-

Figured that if everyone went out and got donations there wouldn’t be much of a cost
Motion was amended to 250 by Rod and seconded by Mel
Accepted by Pete and passed by oral vote.

Next meeting we will need to get a committee together.
We will be expecting up to 100 children and will need to have enough goodies for 500 bags.
Halloween party?
A BIG thanks to Jeppe FFR for the trash pick up!

Thanks to Val (MOM) for the very inspirational speech! I don’t know about the rest of you but I look forward to this every year!

~Motion to adjourn made by Desi, seconded by Mel and passed by oral vote.

~Meeting Adjourned at 6:56 pm

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