Minutes Board Meeting Brewster Chamber of Commerce Jan 31, 2018
Open 4:00PM
Present- Anna Marie Dalbey, Leslie McNamara, Mike Mauk, Martin Hurtado, Chris Chambers
Restructuring the General Meeting:
Motions will now be made by the board members and voted on by the same.
Events:
March
St Patrick’s Day Parade was discussed and the Board has decided not to sponsor it but will participate in it if it is put on. Martin and Manny are working on the details himself and will bring the information to the Chamber.
Award luncheon:
March 15, 2018-
We have received 3 nominations for Person of the Year 2017.
We discussed awards for the best large business and the best small business
Chamber will pay for 3 lunches of the awards winners and plaques. So we will figure $100.00 will cover that.
We can advertise on social media and maybe have the luncheon at Gamble Sands.
Business of the year it was suggested that Gebber’s be nominated for big business and The Armory for the Small business but nothing was decided at this time
June
Cherry Jubilee:
June 16, 2018,
Anna Marie is the Committee Chair person.
Anna envisions a car show, venders, band, everything cherry- pies etc. bandstand maybe at the park with a dance floor like an old fashioned dance with different kinds of music. Parade. The chamber could have shirts made and stuff like that. Cherry pie eating contest.
3on3 basketball was suggested. We need to look in to that. Martin says to contact Naomi Pasley,(sp) she is involved with that. Need to make sure it doesn’t interfere with any other towns celebrations . We want to see about using the basketball court at the park.
4th of July-
Need to talk to Brian before we schedule anything for the 4th to make sure it doesn’t interfere with what the Boys and Girls Club has going on
We are going to need a parade coordinator, and a booth was suggested for the chamber. Try to have a 3 on 3 basketball contest.
Talk to car clubs to see if we can get any to come on the 4th.
See if we can get vendors at the armory to coincide with the parade
We sponsor free swim at the Brewster pool. 4th of July
August:
National Night out August 2
Salmon derby August 3, 4, and 5th
Suggested to have a salmon dinner. Anna knows we can get salmon donated by the tribes so that would be a way to raise money.
October:
Halloween: costume contest the Chamber will still sponsor that as most of the prizes are donated by
Pedro so the cost is minimal to the Chamber
December
Los Posadas-
Dec 8, 2018. Martin says we can get the cost down from last year at least $500.00. We are going to talk to Lee Webster and see if he can have the lights and decorations on the poles around town for that.
Winterfest: We will wait and see if we want to be involved later. As we will have Los Posadas for our winter event.
Motion was made to purchase Grant Sourcing Software from Okanogan Economic Alliance for $70.00 seconded and approved.
Membership forms:
Leslie is working on getting a list of reasons for people to want to join the Chamber. We want to get this done to send out with the membership forms. It will be the short list and the expanded list will be on the web site.
Leslie talked about doing a 2 minute live video with the chambers businesses and have that on the web site.
Discussed that when buying items for events the chamber is sponsoring to split among the Chamber Business members.
Budget:
Projected income is $4645.00 and we are at $5000.00 already going out
Leslie is working on the budget report and will present it at the next General meeting
Meeting adjourned 6PM or so
Productive meeting.