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Canby Chamber of Commerce Meeting April 18, 2007 Minnesota West Community & Technical College
1)
Attendees:
The Canby Chamber of Commerce met at 12:00 pm on April 18th
at
2)
Reports:
Laurie called the meeting to order. The Secretary’s report was
passed around to all attendees.
The report was approved (1st-Pat 2nd-Sabrina).
The Treasurer’s report was passed around and reviewed by all
attendees. The
Treasurer’s report was approved (1st-Amy, 2nd-Karen).
Old Business
3)
Third Annual Community Recognition Banquet: This was a success!
The menu had fish and roast beef.
Served the same number as last year.
There was a suggestion to talk to the VFW about having an
extra bartender on duty.
The committee will meet to review this year’s banquet and begin
discussing next year’s banquet.
Next year the committee will do an invite to people.
Loren sent the letter with the Blue Gold letter and that did
not work. Possibly
include these letters in the dues letters next year.
Pat proposed moving the Citizen of the Year photos to a
different area in City Hall.
To complete this, the Chamber would need to be on the agenda.
Karen proposed having the Chamber on the Council’s agenda to
give a report since we have similar goals for the City.
Laurie has been meeting with Barb every month to see if there
is anything they need on the Chamber’s agenda.
Pat will look into the costs for moving the photos.
4)
Review of First Hospitality Night:
There were not a lot of people in attendance.
The group could have been larger.
Ellie has not received the torn tickets yet from the VFW so
the Chamber does not know the final number.
Marketing committee will work on it and is willing to give it
one more shot. There was
a suggestion for more notice.
The April 12th event was on short notice.
There was discussion about the website.
Don discussed how the Canby News’ website works and that it
is very simple to create.
Every business should have a website.
Don proposed a rudimentary class by Ellie on website
creation. This has been
done in the past and has not been successful.
This may be tried in the fall or at the next hospitality
night. Laurie discussed
Josh Sumption. He has
not returned any of Laurie’s requests to attend a meeting.
The Chamber may need to find a new webmaster.
5)
Raffle Committee:
Pat and Sabrina were meeting after the Chamber meeting to
discuss the raffle.
Permit is at City Hall and has been approved.
There will be no guns on this year’s raffle.
There was a suggestion for a kid’s raffle, but tough for
management and a separate set of tickets are needed.
The Chamber will not be asking for donations from businesses.
There will be a letter in the dues letter saying that if a
business wants to donate, they may drop off an item.
There will be a deadline for winners to pick up prizes after
the raffle drawing. It
will be a 60 or 90 day deadline.
6)
Activities/Hat Daze Update:
The committee is meeting on April 19th.
Laurie announced the REM will be doing the volleyball again.
New Business
7)
City of Canby-Request for
approval to have raffle:
The request was approved at the Monday night Council meeting.
8)
Banners: Chris
Husby keeps bringing the banners to the Chamber and says they are
wrecked. The banners are
fine. Laurie, Becky, and
Ellie volunteered to go through the banners and will decide which
ones are good, which ones need repair, and which ones need to be
cleaned. There is a shoe
store in
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New Businesses in Canby:
Amy’s, American Financial Partners, Outland Energy, and Café
Midway. A letter will be
put together and sent to them for a ribbon cutting and first dollar
of profit. Becky will
help with new member drive.
10)
Christmas Light Promotion:
Liz Verhelst wants to lead a promotion to get new Christmas
lights for the City, similar to Kari Harding’s drive for
defibrillators in the police cars.
Becky mentioned that in
11)
Marketing New Ideas:
Marketing meeting on April 19th.
Also, Fix-Up Fund needs to get started.
Ellie passed out an article from the
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KT Marketplace:
Eldeen Baer spoke for the Marketplace.
Ideas are needed to promote the event on the 2nd
Saturday in September.
This will possibly be held in the depot so there is more access to
downtown businesses.
This is usually held in the park.
A group in
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Other Chamber Business:
Organizing the space at the Canby News-has not met yet.
Also, Greg Pommier is retiring from Cleveland Chevrolet.
The Chamber will present him with some items from the
Chamber.
14)
Adjournment: Motion
to adjourn (1st-Karen, 2nd-Becky).
Motion approved.
15)
Next Meeting:
May 16th, 12:00 p.m. at
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