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“With A Little Help…”, Inc. Board Meeting

Kim Whitmore’s Home

5447 S. McCreedy Ave

Cudahy, WI 53110

 

Saturday, June 28, 2009 at 1:00pm

 

Meeting called to order at 1:34 pm

Present: Gregg, Scott, Biff, Tom, Erica, Kim, Sara, Donna, Josette, Jenny (Jean, Cheryl, Bonnie, Rian)

Absent: Jim Coyne,

 

  • Approval of May 9th Meeting Minutes – Biff moved to accept, Gregg seconded, unanimous approval.                                

 

  • Financial Report – Net worth $55,936.80.  Revenue: $8,950.0, Expense: 2,734.61.  Scott moved to approve, Erica seconded, unanimously approved.

 

  • Fundraising
    • Current/Ongoing Fundraisers: Tabled until future meeting

            We Care                                 

            Good Search/Good Shop

            Candy Bars                                    

            WALH Camp Sponsorship                  

            WALH T-shirt Sponsorship

    • Future Fundraising Opportunities           

            -Gift Bricks Update – Biff is working with Dale Palkowski and wondering what kind of reimbursement we would be able to do for mileage.  Also need to buy sand and spacer-bricks to make the project work.  Biff is making a sponsorship form, e-mailing it to Kim and she will proof and print it.   

            -WALH Calendars – No one brought pictures to the meeting.

                                    -Stone Creek Coffee Sale (Kick off at fall camp)                 

      -Foundations: no new sponsorships                             

      - Year Round Raffle (TABLED until after camp)

 

  • Summer Splash Committee Report – See attached report

 

    • Recruitment                                                                                                                         Volunteers  

                                    -Student Associations

                                    -Flier to Post – Kim posted a whole bunch of flyers.

                                    -Need about five more male and five more female volunteers.

                                    -Application is online and ready to go. 

 

·        Campers                                                                                   

            -MDA Support Group: low turn-out.

             -MDA Walk with the Animals & Camp visit report: got some campers and volunteers at walk with the animals. 

            -Morning Blend: never got a response.

-QUEST article (Biff) – no responses

            -Independence First – no responses

 

  • Summer Camp 2009 –WALH County Fair

°        August 2nd – August 7th (training and set-upon August 1st)

°        Review Schedule of Activities

°        Activities Update

-New Volunteer Orientation (Tom and Kim)

-Texas Hold ‘Em and Cribbage Tourney Sign up (Tom creating brackets)
-Memorial Service (Tom)
-Cookout (Cheryl might be able to pick up food on her way into town)
-Ice Cream Social (Biff is checking on a vendor for ice cream)
-Eating contest (Biff and Kevin) 

-Dairy Prince/princess Contest (Kim will be getting prizes and choosing the people)

-HoDown Dance Thursday

*Decorations (Sara and Erica)

      *DJ coming at 6pm (Josette)

      *Crowning of Dairy prince/princess at the dance (Kim) 

-Tractor/Wheelchair pull (Scott)

-Bake sale/cooking contest (Bakers/cookers will prepare their dishes on Tuesday night and will be judged before lunch at 10:00 on Wednesday)

-Arts/Craft exhibition – (Bonnie)

-Comedy Sportz not coming – contacted Mike Marvell (Kim)

-Carnival day (games like basketball, beanbag toss, bozos buckets, some sort of water balloon game, a blind-folded maze)

- Wheelchair power-soccer (Kim)

-Grand Ole Oprey lip-sync contest (Gregg) 

-Corvette Club (Scott) – 6:00 pm Thursday

-June Price Spirit Award to be presented on Wednesday night

-Paintball (Scott)

-Fire Eater (Josette)

 

°        Theme day ideas: Kim Getting Prizes for theme days

 

            Hometown Pride

            Country Western Singer Day

            Farm Animal Day

            Be a Kid Again Day

            Farmer Day

     

°        T-shirts (Design, sponsorships & # to Order) – ordering through Jim Phillips, need 150 shirts, using design #3

        .    

°        Camp Photo – Thursday at 1pm

 

°        Online  Application are READY

 

    • New Brochure            (TABLED until after camp)           

 

    • New Logo (TABLED until after camp)           

 

  • Newsletter – going out as a hard copy this time, but will be electronic from now on.  Next one is going out after camp.
  •                                    
  • Board Member Interest Forms Due by July 15th – voting will take place at camp

 

  • Other Business
    • Fondy Autoshow is July 26th from 8-4:00 pm.  Lake side park – Fond Du Lac. 
    • WALH best car in show – give a camp t-shirt – need to see if they will be done by then. 

 

  • Future Meetings:
    • Camp Town Hall Meeting – Thursday after camp picture

                                                           

Meeting adjourned 2:55 pm – Sara moves to adjourn, Erica seconds, unanimously approved.

 

“With A Little Help…”, Inc.    P.O. Box 320243    Franklin, WI  53201    (414)571-0234