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Canby Chamber of Commerce Meeting December 13, 2006– PK Egans
1) Attendees: The Canby Chamber of Commerce met at 12:00 pm on November 15th at PK Egans with the following board members present: Derrick Ruether, Don Beman, Amy Szumal, Katie Delaney, Laurie Driessen, and Karen Houtman. Also present were Bonnie Longtin, Pat Stanley, and Ellie Beman. 2) Reports: Derrick called the meeting to order. The Secretary’s report was passed around to all attendees. The Minutes were approved (1st-Karen, 2nd-Katie). The Treasurer’s report was passed around and reviewed by all attendees. The report was approved subject to audit. (1st-Karen, 2nd-Amy). Old Business 3) Holiday Preview: The preview went well. A good turn out for Santa. There were approximately 18-20 people for the caroling party. Ellie expressed a concern about the church open house. She was wondering how to get the numbers up because this event generally has a low turnout. 4) Arctic Blast: The quilt is on display at the Canby News. Raffle tickets were handed out to members to be sold. The Activities Committee will begin to promote Arctic Blast soon. The Activities Committee needs help with the Arctic Blast. Ellie also needs help with making sure the trophies get around to the events. There was a suggestion that the coordinator of each event pick up the trophies for their events. The Ice Fishing Contest will be hosted by a 4-H Club at Del Clark Lake. 5) Drawing: The Activities Committee began having drawings for $25 on Saturday mornings. They have added a few retailers to this so the Committee may go over budget by $50. There was a complaint from one of the businesses that it was a bother. There were suggestions on how to eliminate this by possibly having one central place for the drawing. Please let Ellie know if there are any more complaints.
New Business
6) Ribbon Cuttings: There are two new businesses in Canby. Amy’s (formerly the Corner Store) and American Financial Partners. American Financial Partners is a business that leases office equipment all over the country. Amy Wagner-Pederson opened this branch. Derrick will be in contact with both of these businesses to schedule ribbon cuttings. Also, Glen Citrowske has opened a business in the building that was Denny’s Welding. He does ground source heat pumps. Derrick will be in touch with him as well for a ribbon cutting. Ellie mentioned that Tony Birk purchased The Print Shop. There may be a possible ribbon cutting for that business.
7) President: Derrick will be stepping down after the annual meeting. There was discussion regarding a new president. A suggestion was made to except to accept nominations from the floor at the annual meeting. Since there is no regular meeting in January, the Board will meet to discuss the position. A time will be set for a board meeting after Christmas.
8) New Members: Discussion on how to get new members. There was a suggestion about selling individual memberships, but the Chamber was not sure what to charge. The dues structure needs to be reviewed. There was a suggestion to offer workshops for businesses. Dawn Regnier has the ability to do something like this. The business needs to be a member to get the free workshop. Also, there was a discussion about a survey, asking what the businesses want the Chamber to do for them. This survey could be a face to face survey or a phone survey. There was suggestion for a marketing plan to be developed for the January meeting. Ellie, Katie, Karen will be a part of this committee. The dues structure will be reviewed by this committee as well. The Chamber also discussed if it would be possible to get one member from each group, such as Rotary or the Jaycees to serve for six months at a Chamber meeting and then after the six months, the person has the option of continuing to serve or finding another person to serve.
9) Hat Daze: There is a possibility that Hat Daze may move to Slyvan Park. The volleyball and softball were a success last year. However, they need more power there. The Chamber has money that they could put towards putting more power down there. The Chamber needs to contact the City Council for this project.
10) Citizen of the Year: The committee needs a new representative from the city.
11) Proposed Budget and Bylaws: The proposed budget will be approved at the annual meeting. Motion made by Pat-1st and Karen 2nd. Motion approved. The proposed Bylaws will also be approved at the annual meeting.
12) Adjournment-motion to adjourn (1st-Don, 2nd-Amy). Motion approved.
13) Next Membership Meeting-There will not be a regular meeting in January. The Annual meeting will be held on January 26, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. at the VFW.
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