Present:  Jody Hoogland, Paula McCulley, Annelle Urbahn, Heather Killgore, Nancy Asker, Melinda Hall, Lori Courtright, Lark Hall, Joe Cladouhos, and Jeff Kutner

Absent:  Jeff Scott, Beryl Grant

Meeting was called to order by President Melinda 7:30 am at Broddocks and Minutes from our January meeting were approved as emailed. 

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Merchants:  Annelle reported the Christmas lights have been taken down in the month of January and there will be a Merchants meeting 7:30 am at Broddocks Thursday Feb 5, 2009.

Crabfeed:  Nancy reported $628.25 has been deposited and the Elks and Chamber both made approximately $200 each at this point in time.  Nancy is still collecting bills and checks.  Nancy sold the majority of the leftover Crab and has 42 packages remaining in the freezer for sale at $10/bag.  The Grangeville Boosters collected $3350 so far from the silent auction and anticipate collecting up to $3700 for new lights at the football field.

12 people paid cover charge of $5 to come in for the dance only.

Grants:  Jeff Kutner reported for Jeff Scott.  Jeff Scott is still looking through data to find match money.  We must have 12.5% match before submitting out Grant paperwork for reimbursement.  We expect $4-5000 in reimbursement.

Treasurers Report:  Lori reported that we opened a CD with Potlatch Federal Credit Union for 12 months with $15700.  We have another $15000 CD maturing in May.  Melinda and Paula will also be signers on the CD.

As of 2007, the IRS now allows organizations that make less than $25000 to file an electronic postcard called an e-postcard in lieu of completing a full set of Form 990 Tax Returns.  Lori filed the e-postcard this year.  The e-postcard notifies the IRS that we are still in existence and we made less than $25000 in 2008.

Jeff K shared the list of checks written and his list of duties performed in January 2009. 

Membership:  Jeff K reported Early Bird and M & N Concrete are new members.  Jeff K. will check with Verizon for their potential membership.  Jeff K will also contact Idaho Stage LLC for their potential membership.  Idaho Stage LLC is the company that will remodel one of the buildings for Syringa Hospital.

Advertising:  The Get Acquainted Addition deadline is approaching on Feb 11, 2009.  After discussion it was decided to have Jeff K check with the Free Press to see if we could get a discounted rate on a ½ page for being a non-profit and for encouraging our members to advertise with the Free Press.  He will then e-mail the board with a time to meet for a photo in front of the Mammoth and prepare ad script with “Come Play in our Mammoth Backyard” and why business should become a member of the Chamber of Commerce.

CEDA and IDA-Lew are in need of more private business members.  Jeff K asked the Chamber to become a member by paying membership dues to support the efforts of CEDA and IDA-LEW.  CEDA is working on Broadband Connectivity between Riggins and Grangeville and CEDA works to guarantee business loans with financial institutions.  Discussion was entertained regarding what the membership would do for us if we pay membership.  No motion was made to pay.

Nancy reported Ski Idaho was at Snowhaven last weekend and brought 5-7 of their skiers.  They did some filming and will be on Facebook on the Web.  SkiIdaho is the group that offers our 5^th Graders free ski tickets at various ski hills in Idaho.  Snowhaven is one of the hills this year.  White Bird Summit Lodge provided lodging for the SkiIdaho team.

Jeff K will attend Snowhaven’s board meeting Feb 4^th to see if they are interested in a 3 way split of approximately $500 with Super 8 and the Chamber.  Stacy Turner can create a virtual tour of Snowhaven promoting tourist from other areas to visit Grangeville in the winter months to ski and tube.  All Chamber Board members should check out Super 8’s virtual tour to see Stacy’s work at super8idaho.com.

Heather K reported the White Bird Chamber is working on a Grant to have First Step Internet from Moscow get Wireless internet going in White Bird.

Heather is also working with a group to host a National Hang Glide and Paraglide event at the top of White Bird Hill in the future.  She is currently gathering data such as the number of motel rooms in Grangeville to house spectators and participants.

Joe announced the newly elected Syringa Hospital Board members.  Tim Wassmuth and David Green have been elected to the 6 year term and Scott Scribner for the 4 year term.

Saturday April 4^th Joe and Tova Cladouhos will be the featured Chefs at the Gallery.  They will prepare a Greek Cuisine for the Hospice Benefit Dinner.

A brief discussion as to what constitutes a “Special” versus regular “Advertising” was conducted regarding our proposed new web page to host our Member’s special events.  No motions or decisions were made.

The next meeting will be March 4^th at 7:30 am at Broddock’s.  Melinda will check to see if the Conference Room or the Upper level seating area will be available to avoid excess noise.

Respectfully submitted, Proxy for the Secretary of the Chamber Board,

Lori Courtright

2009 January –Grangeville Chamber of Commerce Minutes

Present: Melinda Hall, Jeff Scott, Lori Courtright, Joe Clodouhas, Jody Hoogland, Lark Hall, Nancy Asker, Paula McCulley, Annelle Urbahn, Beryl Grant and Jeff Kutner

Absent: Mike Fredrickson, Heather Killgore

Guest: Mary Jahn

Meeting was called to order by President Melinda at 7:28 am at Broddock’s.

Some housekeeping was taken care of as emails were checked and phones numbers updated.

Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as emailed. Copies were handed out to new members and to Annelle who does not have email.

Committee Reports:

 Merchants:  Annelle reported there would be a meeting tomorrow Jan 8^th at 7:30 at Oscar’s. Lights will be discussed about when they can come down and the year’s special events.

Grants: Jeff S reported he has turned in the final numbers for last year. He submitted $6200.00 and put in the marketing plan just because.  We should receive between 4-5 thousand back. We will review this and see what we missed and left on the table for last year. We are already ahead of schedule for this year with our advertising plan in place.

Holiday Specials: The video about Snohaven was discussed and it was agreed to get the costs from Shelley, who works at the Free Press before we decide anything. This is not part of the grant but could be used for cash match. Lark told us that she did the video on the web for super 8. You can go to super8idaho.com to see her work. Jeff K will get the particulars and report at the next meeting. Does this fit our winter marketing plan and does it fit the image of “Come Play in our Mammoth Back Yard”.

Visitor’s Center: Jeff K reported that he has kept the center shoveled out. The volunteers had a very nice Christmas party and are ready for the new season.  Their winter hours are in effect until April 1.

Treasurer’s Report: See attached for full details.  Nothing unusual to report except we paid for two years of the water system maintenance. Our $10,000 CD needs to be renewed and Lori will call around for rates and put it back in to earn interest at this time.

Mill Meeting: Scott Atkison is working with Jeff K to put together a meeting with the help of the Grangeville Chamber of Commerce.  There will be a tour of the mill at 10:00 am and then a no-host lunch at the Senior Center at noon with a meeting of questions and answers to follow. The date of this is January 15^th.  RSVP is required for the lunch. The mill spent $50M to upgrade and the mill and is the most advanced mill in the country. Only businesses and Chambers will be invited to this first meeting.

Election of Officers:

Nominations were asked for from the Board present and everyone agreed to stay on as in the past. Beryl made a motion to accept the slate of officers as presented and Paula seconded the motion.  Motion passed.

Officers are as follows for the 2009 season

President                      Melinda Hall

Vice President             Annelle Urbahn

Secretary                      Beryl Grant

Treasurer                      Lori Courtright/ Jeff Kutner

Members are: Mike Fredrickson, Jeff Scott, Lark Hall, Jody Hoogland, Nancy Asker, Paula McCulley, Heather Killgore and Joe Clodouhas.

We have a full house according to the Grangeville Chamber By-Laws.

Crab Feed:  There will be a meeting at 5:00 pm tonight Jan 7^th at Broddock’s. Mike Fredrickson and his team from the Grangeville Booster’s are in charge of the silent auction and the decorating. The theme will be Team Spirit and there will be a pre-function at 5:00 pm the night of the feed with tap beer for 50 cents and a Pep Rally if we can swing it.

Mary Jahn:  Mary was representing the Northwest Passage Scenic By-Way, which run from Lewiston to Kooskia and then from Kooskia to Grangeville. The By-Way is a great way to market out area and it should fit into the larger picture. Grangeville is an entry point for the driving tour and folks visiting the area are always looking for something to do when they get here.  The advisory team is looking for a place to house their committee. Annelle volunteered to be on the committee and to represent the Chamber and report back. Last Spring the advisory committee applied for a Grant and they have now been awarded $7500 and need 20% match. The Grangeville Chamber agreed to commit $1500 toward the project if they were awarded the Grant. The money will go toward a three panel interpretive Kiosk on main street in town. The coordinator for this project lives in Moscow and is a Federal Employee so this Chairperson job fits in with her job. Chamber has agreed to make the Committee a subcommittee of Chamber and report each month just like others. Jeff K will send out emails to our members and see if there are volunteers that would like to make up this committee from the general population. There may be some untapped talent with creative ideas. 

The meeting was adjourned at 8:50 pm

The next meeting will be Feb. 4^th at 7:30 am at Broddock’s

On the next agenda we need to decide if we are going to rehire Jeff K as an employee.

Respectfully submitted

Secretary to the Chamber Board

Beryl Grant 

2008 Dec - Grangeville Chamber of Commerce Board Minutes

Present: Jeff K, Mike, Nancy, Melinda, Annelle, Paula, Lori, Jodi and Lark

Absent: Jeff S and Beryl

Meeting was called to order by President Melinda

Beryl's minutes from the previous meeting were discussed, Lori had

 emailed one change. Lori moved they be accepted and Annelle

seconded. Motion passed.

Representatives from The Horizons Groups: Mark Baker, Cathy

Wassmuth and Deanna English were present. Deanna gave us a printed

report of progress as well and spoke to us about the direction the

different committees of the Horizons groups were going and where

they are heading in the future. Farmer's Market is coming along well,

they have written a grant and received $28,000.oo toward next years

budget.  This money will help pay for a paid Director for the Farmer's

 Market and other things that are needed. They feel that the Market

has been a great asset to the community and hope that there will be

more involvement from the City on the Market days to keep people

downtown shopping. One suggestion was for the local restaurants to

have advertised specials for that day and someone to do a coffee

 service, since there are wonderful rolls to buy and eat at the Market.

The Recreation committee's contributions were: Lighting the city park,

and a 3 on 3 tournament and story reading.  Deanna said they have

received $5000 in donations for the lights at the park and more money

is coming in daily.

The Brown Bag committee was not as well received and they had

to cancel a couple of dates due to low turn-out.

They were looking for a Master Email List of Grangeville for their

use.  Jeff brought up that not all people want their email addresses

just "out there" for anyone to get.  He suggested that the Group email

 any communications to him and he would forward out to the

Chamber Members. We will not give out our member email

 addresses. 

 Jodi offered her help in getting any events on the Chamber's on-line

Calendar, they just have to get the information to her.

A Horizon's Committee has also done grant writing and received

 $15,000 to go to the Evergreen Food Bank.

The Horizon's Group is working on getting a 501 C3 umbrella

 to cover Grangeville's group and Cottonwood's group, that

 project is about done.

Merchants Committee:

Melinda reported: The White Elephant breakfast tomorrow 12/4/08.

 This is a Merchants fund-raiser for lights downtown at Christmas. 

 Discussion of the cost of lights, $200 + each year to replace broken

 or missing lights on poles. We have put the LED lights on 8 poles

 and will see if the extra money they cost is worth not having to

replace so many each year.  Merchant dues are supposed to be

used, but some merchants just don't pay their dues.  Mike

suggested that maybe the Chamber could budget some dollars

to go towards this cost each year.

Visitor's Center/ Treasurer's Report/ Membership:

Jeff K reported that the visitor center " ladies" are doing well. 

 Sallie Fifield and Sally Soltman headed up the decorations of

the Visitor Center. Jeff thinks the reason we missed the Visitor Guide

 dealine last year is that they have the wrong or our old email address.

  He made this dscoveery when he got word that this years deadline

 is very soon and we haven't had any word about it until now.

Jeff made out 2 Gift Certificates for the Crab Feed to trade to the

 Chocolate Fantasy and Festival of Trees.  Melinda signed them. 

  Jeff will get the gift certificates from each of them for our Crab

Feed Auction.

New Members: CPEC (Camas Prarie Eye Clinic), Killgore

Adventures (returning member) Salmon River Estates (returning

member) and Early Bird Supply. Jodi asked about Relay for Life,

the Grangeville group, they have supposedly sent in an application

and credit card payemnt for new membership. Jeff has not seen

it but will check again.  Also he will talk to Mary Mangold about

the pay-pal process. Questions brought up again about the charging

of Non-profit groups Chamber dues as they don't make any money

but do a good service, ie. Kids Klub, Relay for Life, etc. No

 decisions were made and this will be discussed later.

New Business:

Scenic Byway got grant money and now they need to form a

segment team to come up with projects for the dollars in our area.

  Looking for volunteers, five or six at the most.  Mary Jahn is not

the head of this committee.  Also when is the Kiosk going to go up

 and where? Maybe at US Bank? We talked about this some months

back and we need to decide or work with others to decide.

Walt Minnick will be in town Thursday at 11 am at US Bank

for public visiting, then a luncheon for a select group of businesses

around 12 or so at The Gallery.

Scott Atkinson, CEO of Idaho Forest Group will be at the Elks

on January 15, at 12 pm for a no-host luncheon. He will speak of

the Mill and it's desire to stay put.  There will be a tour of the Mill

afterward for those interested

The Quarterly Chamber Meeting at Oscar's 12/11/08. The pre-function

is at 5:30 pm and dinner will be at 6 pm. Please RSVP to Oscar's.

 There are 2 seats on the Board that we can fill if we find a volunteer

willing to come on. Three currant Board Members are at the end of

 their term and all three have agreed to stay on the Board, those

members being Beryl Grant, Mike Fredrickson and Annelle Urbahn.

The Grangeville golf course would like us to buy a $100 raffle

ticket for their fund raiser. The prize is a brand new golf cart. 

 The Board was not in favor as this is not our purpose.

Crab Feed: The organizational meeting will be Dec. 16th at

Oscar's at 5 pm.  Patti Pratt will help, but mother is in poor health

so not sure how much. Terri Tackett has said she will be on the

committee from the Elks. Mike reported that the Booster Club

would take on the silent auction for the Crab Feed. The theme will

be something to do with our school.... Be True to Your School,

 Blue and White Night, etc. A discussion on how to get more

people to come in after the Crab Feed itself for a lower ticket price

for the dance and music. Try to make it so the kids could come into

the Elks and have fun with the dance or whatever the entertainment

until 10:00 pm when they have to be out. A decision was made not

to raise the price of the actual ticket this year.  It will stay at $25.00

and the Chamber Board agreed to clean crab again.  Nancy will be

in charge of getting the crab again.

Meeting was ajourned at 8:45 am with the next meeting at the 

Quarterly Dec. 11th at Oscar's. Regular Board meetings

are the first Wed. of each month at 7:30 am at Oscar's.

2008 Nov – Grangeville Chamber of Commerce Board Minutes 

 Present: Melinda Hall, Beryl Grant, Jeff Scott, Paula McCulley, Mike Fredrickson, Lark Hall, Lori Courtright and Jeff Kutner

Absent: Annelle Urbahn, Nancy Asker and Jody Hoogland  

Meeting was called to order by President Melinda at 7:30 am  

Minutes of the previous meeting were approved as emailed. Motion was made and passed.  

Merchants: Melinda said the Christmas White Elephant fund-raiser for the merchants would be held on 12-4-08 at Oscar’s at 7:30 am. Downtown lights will be put up the week of Nov. 17^th; Jeff S will get with Melinda about a date. Pet’s pictures with Santa will be on Nov. 22^nd at The Gallery for $9.00 and be ready for Christmas. There will be no Progressive after-hours this year.

  Grant: Jeff S just needs a couple of copies of checks to wrap up last years grant and get it shipped off. All is going well. 

 Visitor’s Center: Jeff K and Beryl held a meeting with the volunteers on election day out at the center. The Ladies were there and talked strategy for the up-coming holiday season. Things are going well and everyone is getting along. Althea will be taking her furniture home and we will look to see what we need to replace so the Center can function effectively. We will probably want to replace the hutch with something along the same line to display merchandise. The lights on the Mammoth are coming on again, we have a short that needs to be address and Jeff will get on that project. The phone has been installed in the office and there is now a lock on the door that can be locked from the inside for safety.  Windermere is requesting that the web page be in the name of the office on Main Street and that each agent can then have his or her own listing. Jeff K will handle the set-up of this account.  

 Director’s Report: Jeff submitted a task list of things done. Jeff K will attend the NCITA meeting in WhiteBird at 1:00 pm. Heather Killgore will be hosting.  Horizons will be at our Next Board meeting in Dec. to bring the Chamber current with what is happening with them and the community. Horizons are paid members of Chamber.  Lark made a motion and Paula seconded the motion that past due members will come off the web page after three months.  We will have Nettie send three notices of past due Dues and then Jeff K will take them off the web site. Beryl, Mike and Paula are up for re-election. Beryl and Paula agreed to come back on the next three-year term and Mike said he would think about it and let us know. Elections will be held at the Dec. quarterly meeting. We do have room for more Board members if someone wants to be nominated and elected at the Quarterly meeting.  

 New Business:  We are going to advertise in the Trout & Steelhead guide, it comes out in the Feb. issue and distributed in our Region. Northwest Media Production is helping us with this project. 

 Crab Feed:  This will be held on Jan 24, 2009 and will be in partnership with the Elks.  Melinda will contact Patti Pratt as see if she would like to work with the Chamber on this with all her notes from the previous ones.  The High School Lighting Program is active and Mike is going to see if that committee would like to participate with chamber on the silent auction.  Last year we gave it to them but we did all the work with the help of Mike, this year we would like them to actually participate along with us. They need $80,000.00 for the football field and $120,000 to do baseball as well. The committee is actively looking for grants and ways to raise money. Mike will get back to us.  Quarterly meeting: The Syringa Hospital will be the guest speaker for the event. Please plan to attend.  Our next Board meeting will be Dec. 3, 2009 at Oscar’s at 7:30 am with guest speakers on the agenda.  Meeting was adjourned at 8:40 am 

2008 Oct. –Grangeville Chamber of Commerce Board minutes

Present: Annelle, Jody, Jeff S, Paula, Melinda, Beryl, Lori, and Jeff K

Absent: Mike, Nancy

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 am by President Melinda Hall

Motion was made to accept the minutes as emailed, there was a second and motion passed to accept the minutes as emailed.

Grants: Jeff S: He is compiling last years grant stuff. We reserved our space with the ad and will get the ad in on time. The ad committee will decide on which color and format to send. Annelle made a motion that the ad committee will have the authority to make those decisions of development and placement and submission of the ads. Lori seconded the motion and the motion passed.  The ad committee will meet Thurs. evening at The Gallery with the committee and Michelle from Lewiston.

Merchants: Annelle: The merchants are buying the LED light strings to replace on some of the garland to see if they will hold up better. They will do 8 this year and see if they are better and make a decision for next year.

Annelle is working on a map for the area. The cost would be .06 per page and if we got 400 the cost would be $24.00. The cost would come from the glue and time to put them together.  The object is to have some kind of map at the visitor’s center for folks wanting to go downtown. Beryl made a motion to let Annelle move forward with this and Lori seconded the motion. The motion passed.

Oct 30^th is the Chamber After Hours at Syringa Hospital, it will be in conjunction with their dessert auction fund raiser and the open house show casing their remodeled lab area.

John’s 60^th Birthday is set at the Elks for Oct. 18^th, come and wish him a Happy Birthday.

Moonlight Madness will be Oct 23^rd, the theme is Bulldog Blue Spirit and the Madness is from 4-7 pm. It is Team Spirit Night at the game.

Holiday decorations are ready to go up. Jeff S will check with Avista to check their schedule to see when his men can help with the project.

Visitor’s Center: Jeff K: Jeff has been working out there and being seen. Elden is on board with the design of the landscaping and will help with the landscaping of the Mammoth grounds. It is almost done, be sure to stop by and check it out. Things are going smoothly.

Director’s Report: Jeff K: Clubs paying dues. There is only one besides the ATV club, just give the money back to them. Banner ads are ok in the appropriate spot and cost is the same for everyone per year. Jeff K will be sure this is billed and collected or the ad will come off.

Jeff K is still attending the Tel-com meetings and the project is still moving, slowly. Articles are planned to inform the public where they are with the process. Frontier did do engineering plan 8 years ago.

Treasurer’s Report: Jeff K: Only regular bills were presented, nothing surprising. We have $9942.42 in checking and we have 2 CD’s and a savings account.

New Business: We have a new member Jeremy who is dong pay-day loans. Crabfee date is Jan 24^th 2009 and will be in conjunction with the Elks again. The committee needs to begin meeting.

Kelly Dahlquist: Kelly was our guest speaker for the morning, she talked about ads and where the dollars for the state are going. She represents a 5 county region that we belong to. Idaho Travel Council gives grant dollars and she will send us a toolbox kit of information that will help us move forward with our jobs as Chamber members. She will email this to us in time for our ad committee meeting. Northwest Media is the ad committee right now for the Travel Council as well as Grangeville Chamber.

NCITA is in the Idaho Travel State Guide ¼ page, which defines the 5 area region we are in.

RV Idaho is the State guide to travel and Kelly gave us a sample of it showing the BY-WAYS

AAA Western Journeys as a possible venture to get Grangeville out there further. We could get partners and do a ½ page ad and make our dollars count for us.

Kelly talked about how small businesses could buy leads at .05 each with the minimum of 100 that would target a specific group of folks to market to. She also said we should invest in post-cards, which we have talked about and are going to do.

We should do a big push on the Scenic-by-Way which is ready to be implemented and Grangeville is the Gateway, we should market to that.

NCITA offers CO-OP money to Chambers to better stretch our ad dollars. We need to investigate this.

Product Travel Cast: POD Cast goes on web site and they have enough money to produce 5 area travel casts. Chamber can sponsor and we can us CO-OP dollars.

GoIdaho.com invested in lodging, camp grounds, and leads come each Monday that businesses can tap into. There are lots of ways people can get leads to market for their areas.

NCITA: They have done a Grangeville Community Brochure in the past. They are doing a brochure with all communities on one brochure. The theory is that the fulfillment package will be more bang for the buck if we promote each other and produce better together as Central Idaho instead of lots of small communities all trying to do the same thing individually.

We could do Grangeville the Gateway for $300 per year in the All American Road.

NCITA membership meeting is open to everyone. There will be three now instead of the one so more folks can get to them. They will be in WhiteBird  on Nov. 12^th, Lewiston the AM of Nov. 13^th and Kamiah in the PM of the 13^th.   They will have a power point presentation ready and one of the POD Casts ready to view.

Please use NCITA as a tool to get what you want for your area. Be tourism ready and are you needing hospitality training, it is our there. You can go to updateidaho.com or goidaho.com for great ideas.

Chamber thanked Kelly for her great presentation and the meeting was adjourned at 9:10 am.

Our next meeting will be Nov. 5^th at Oscar’s at 7:30 am. Our 4^th quarter meeting will be on Dec. 11^th at Oscar’s at 5:00 pm happy hour and dinner to follow. More information will follow at the Nov. Board meeting.

Respectfully submitted

Board Secretary

Beryl Grant

Sept 3, 2008 Grangeville Chamber of Commerce Board Minutes

President Melinda Hall brought the meeting to order at 7:30 am at Oscar’s.

Present were: Melinda Hall, Jody Hoogland, Jeff Scott, Jeff Kutner, Lori Courtright, Lark Hall, Nancy Asker, Annelle Urbahn and Beryl Grant

Absent were: Mike Fredrickson and Paula McCulley

Minutes: Lori made a motion to accept the minutes as posted on the web site; Lark seconded the motion and the motion passed.

Grant: Jeff Scott has had no activity. The State Travel Guide deadline is coming up and Jeff K will get with Michelle from Northwest Media and be sure our ad is done. Melinda presented an article for approval for the Elks newsletter in Nov. The Elks are holding a convention in Grangeville and Chamber will be represented in the publication.

Merchants: Annelle said that the merchants committee would meet tomorrow morning Sept. 4^th at 7:30 at Oscar’s. Moonlight madness will be discussed and a date will be picked for the event. Annelle said that she had Syringa Hospital interested in Chamber After Hours and will work with them to arrange the event.

Visitors Center: Beryl and Jeff K presented back to the board the position of Part-Time Director after having met with Kathy about what the job consists of. Lori did a proposed budget present and past and future to see if we could really afford this position. Lark made a motion to hire Jeff K at $500 per month on a trial basis and look at it again at the 1^st of the year. This new job would be in addition to what he is currently doing. Beryl seconded the motion and the motion passed.  Jeff K and Beryl will hold a meeting on Sept. 4^th at noon at the Visitor’s Center and introduce Jeff K at the new part-time director to the volunteers.

Mammoth Building: The Green Acres proposal was handed out. Annelle made a motion that we do the green acres proposal. Discussion followed.  Because we are using the “Come play in our Mammoth back yard” as our new advertising slogan and because it is unique to our area we should look at how unfinished the project looks to tourists and those we are trying to bring to our area. Jeff S seconded the motion to finish the project and the motion passed.  Jeff K will contact Green Acres to get them on the job and get it done this fall. Jeff K asked for a committee that would work with Green Acres to come up with planting and the like. The committee would include but not be limited to Lori, Beryl, Nancy and we will ask Eldene Wasem if she would help with the project as well.

Treasurer’s Report:  Jeff K handed out reports showing where we are financially. Also included are the budget proposals that Lori made up. Bills were discussed. Motion was made by Lori to accept the treasurer’s report and Jeff S seconded the motion. Motion passed.

Lewis and Clark CD’s for the driving tour: Lark wanted to know where she could get come more to hand out at the Motel.  Jeff K will look into it and check with the Visitor’s Center. Kathy Carpenter may know. 

Lori made a motion to pay Jeff K $400 for the month of Aug. for the work he has done for the Chamber, Nancy seconded the motion and motion passed.  This will be the last time we do this. Jeff K is now the Part-Time Chamber Director and will be paid a monthly salary of $500.

Quarterly Meeting is Sept. 11, at noon at the Gallery. RSVP to Sue at the Gallery. The guest speaker will be Francis Conklin from the ITC Regional office and Mary Jahn is going to give an update on the scenic byway.

With no further business we adjourned at 8:50 am

The next meeting will be our Quarterly meeting and the next Board meeting will be Oct. 1^st at 7:30 am at Oscar’s.

Respectfully Submitted

Board Secretary

Beryl Grant