Fairbury Chamber of Commerce

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes

Friday, April 4, 2008, 11:30 a.m.

First National Bank north branch carry in Subway

Present:  President Klaumann, Justin Goranson, Carmen Hinman, Heidi Fredrickson, Ron Hilligas, Joy Gaston, Sharon Priefert & Trevor Steinmeyer.  Absent: Sally Beckworth and Jan Klaus.

President Klaumann called the meeting to order at 11:40 am.

Wild West Weekend:  Danni Starck presented a budget for the event.  She requested a loan of $1800 for the inflatable games for kids.

Little Blue BBQ:  Chad made a presentation that the committee still wanted to have the BBQ on September 5 & 6.  Kelly and Chris Davis have both offered to help.  They are requesting to use the profit from the last 2 years for this years contest.  They are adding a single entry for only $50 if someone just wants to cook one kind of meat.  Volunteers are needed for set up on Thursday night, Friday night BBQ meal served by Fairbury Fire Dept. they would like a few people down there to help out. Friday morning check in begins at 9am, he would like to have someone help by noon for the remainder of check in.  Saturday morning he would like 4 people down there before 10am to help with the running of the meat to the representatives to prepare for judging at 11am.  Chad suggested Sharon go ahead and send in the sanctioning fee of $300 now and send the insurance in when Starr Buckow  gets the dates changed and just makes it Little Blue BBQ instead of FairburyFest.

Minutes:  Trevor made a motion to approve minutes from March 7.  Ron seconded

Financials:  Ron made a motion to accept the February financials.  Trevor seconded

Chamber Banquet 09:  PTA is discussing moving the date of Fun Night to April.  We will wait until that is finalized and if so we will have next year’s banquet, Feb 6, 2009.

Updates on committees:

Ambassadors:  Business After Hours, Fri., April 18 at VFW, Tiffany Pfaff Chairperson

Community Pride & Beautification:  Justin reported that Kiwanis is cleaning out the island corners tomorrow.  Sharon contacted Annie Erichsen with FFA and they will plan to complete what the Kiwanis doesn’t get done.

Special Events:  Easter Egg Hunt was a big success.  It was suggested that if the courthouse speaker system is not fixed some type of PA system is needed.  Sharon is sure Kettelhut would let us use his system if needed.

Wild West Weekend:  Trevor has developed a poster for the event. Next meeting Tuesday, April 15 at 6:30 at the Airport.  The board took no action on Danni’s presentation since the bills will not be due until after the fact.

Home & Garden Show:  Huge success.  It was suggested that Kettelhut’s speaker system be used as it is easier to hear and it could be at the registration table and another one at the stage of the Merchants building.

Personnel Committee:  The committee met and drew up a rough draft, Sharon has been working on an itemized job description and will send that to the committee member so they can make a job description for staff members.

Membership Committee:  Meeting after Kiwanis at 1pm to coordinate something with the BAH, April 18, VFW.  Sarge said Keith Fisher is interested in becoming an individual member.  Sharon to contact now.

Little Blue BBQ, September 5 & 6:  It was discussed that no action is needed at this time.

Community Night at the Haymarket Salt Dogs:  F-Club was not interested in participating so we will decline the offer this year.

Meeting adjourned at 12:55pm.

Next meeting will be April 18 at Hope Crisis Center carry in Casey’s Pizza.

Respectfully Submitted, Sharon Priefert, Executive Director