Minutes 9-2-2009

Canby Chamber of Commerce September 2, 2009 Meeting Minutes

Those in attendance:

Michael Baer

Joyce Baer

Pat Stanley

Danielle Frazeur

Jody Olson

Eldeen Baer

JoAnn Hansen

Doug Gingles

Chuck Moberg

Jan Pederson

Tony Ourada

Pat Stanley called the meeting to order at approximately 5:45pm at P.K. Egans. Joyce Baer acted as temporary secretary in place of Katie Delaney and Rebecca Weber.

The first order of business was to elect a Chairperson. Pat Stanley graciously stepped forward to take on that position for the first year of this reorganization. All present approved. Danielle Frazeur nominated Tony Ourada for the Vice-Chairperson position. No other nominations were made, and Tony agreed to serve as Vice-chair with the knowledge that after this year, Pat will step down and Tony will take over as Chairperson. All present approved.

Diana Fliss has stepped into the treasurers position. Rebecca Weber and Katie Delaney are co-secretaries. The other Board Members include: Denise Hanson, Danielle Frazeur, Doug Gingles, Jody Olson, and JoAnn Hansen.

The key mission of our Chamber is to “promote Canby.”

We discussed the various committees that are needed to help the Chamber run more efficiently. The Chamber will not and can not do ALL the work, therefore committees for Marketing, Activities, Membership etc. must be established. That will be discussed further at the next meeting. The Activities that Canby supports are Arctic Blast (January); Hat Daze (June); Crazy Daze (August); Holiday Preview (November). Perhaps there is one activity that you like more than another and would be willing to be a part of the planning and work detail...So far we have the parade committee set up. The committee chairs would be responsible for reporting to the Chamber to keep the Board member informed on what they are doing.

We have an assortment of memorabilia on hand. Seven (7) cases of Christmas ornaments with different scenes of Canby locations. The Chamber is out of funds to pay the bills that are out-standing, so we need to come up with fund-raising ideas. Selling these items for $5 a piece was discussed. Other ideas were tail-gating? Burger feed? Working at the VFW steak fry? Doing a membership push now to get more people involved and dues getting paid.

New time and location will be on the 2nd Wednesday @ noon. For the first quarter we will meet at PK Egan’s. Tony Ourada volunteered to check into other locations for the other quarters of the year. Email’s will be set out to members with addresses, or phone calls to those w/o email in plenty of time to announce the up-coming meeting.

Jody Olson mentioned that a note of thanks should be sent to Karen Houtman and Ellie Beman for their work as Chamber co-chairs the past two years, and also a thank you to the Canby News for all the advertising it provided to the Chamber functions and projects. This was unanimously agreed to.

Meeting was adjourned.

Respectfully submitted by Joyce Baer

Canby MN Area Chamber of Commerce

PO Box 115

Canby, MN 56220-0115

Phone: (507) 223-7775

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