Members present: Greg Painter, Trina Cardoza, Ed Duggan, Laura Madsen, Gil Saliba, Molly O’Gorman, and Tangie Markle.

Minutes:

The meeting was called to order by Tangie Markle at 8:30am. The August meeting minutes were reviewed and accepted as written.

Finance Report:

At the time of the meeting Molly did not have a final report yet on how much was made at the dinner. She said she would send out an email once she had all the info.

She did say that at this point we were about $500 shorter then we were at the end of last year so things were looking good and that didn’t include any new memberships coming in.

Old Business:

1. Membership list update: Gil suggested sending out a reminder with a questionnaire on how to get more involved, on becoming a member, and trying to get current email addresses for all members. Molly was going to break down the list and send it to everyone to make phone calls to generate more membership renewals and get more volunteers.

2. Fundraisers recap:

A: TShirts/Willow Creek Item Sales: Tangie is working on getting a design together for next year and to hopefully be involved in more community events selling items for the Chamber.

B: Taste of Willow Creek Dinner: Joan was not at the meeting to give a final recap but questions were raised as to whether or not the dinner is really worth all the time and effort and if anyone is willing to work on it for next year.

C: Taste of Willow Creek Raffle: Tangie said she may not want to do the raffle next year, she is still thinking about it. She felt she didn’t sell many tickets and people complained about the ticket prices and not having any money. Tangie suggested changing the price of the tickets, it was decided that would be discussed at a later date. Greg wanted to send out thank you letters for all the donations and Molly said to put something in the newsletter thanking everyone.

D: Bigfoot Days Booth: Tangie sold the Bigfoot magnets and made about $75. She did not sell many raffle tickets but did get some sold.

3. Information Booth update: the booth is closed for the year. No other

Information on the booth for the month.

4. Website update: Greg had nothing new to share. He’s working on setting up

email addresses in the system so we can send out emails to everyone. Molly has new members to add to the site that she was going to send to Greg.

5. Calendar of Events: Greg said he would review that area of the site before

every meeting to make sure it looks good. Having a Winter Dinner was brought up and a date was not set but planned for early December and we’re going to try and have it at a different location then before, possibly Gonzales.

New Business:

1. Membership certificates: Laura and Molly are going to get together and mail them out next week.

2. Information Booth phone: Molly is going to check messages during the winter and Laura will do it if Molly isn’t available.

3. Newsletter: Gil needs submissions by 10/23 to make it in the newsletter. Laura will write something on Bigfoot Days, Gil-Taste of Willow Creek, Greg will give a website update, Ed-museum and fishing report, Tangie-something on the raffle, and Molly-any new members.

4. Computer: Molly’s sister is still interested in the computer but there isn’t a Windows CD with it. Molly was going to ask Nita and see if she had one at her house still.

5. Budget: Molly showed everyone a sample budget which included a $1000 payment to the water district. The payment still has to be voted on and it was decided we would wait until the next meeting when we had the final numbers in from Taste of Willow Creek to see how much we could pay them.

The meeting adjourned at 10am.