Commercial Club Meeting Report

Garretson Commercial Club Meeting Minutes

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 at the Sports Cabin

Present: Garrick Moritz, John Brinkman, Guy Johnson, Linda Hoefert, Laurie Bennett, Anna Uhl, Kris Johnson, Mary and Steve Carlson, Tim Mallatt, Carrie Moritz, Craig Nussbaum, Colleen Collier, Luke Dreckman and Sam Williamson

Absent: Ron Luke

 Secretary Report was approved by John and 2^nd by Linda.  All approved

Treasurer Report was approved by Mary and 2^nd by Laurie.  All approved.

Old Business:

Grow Garretson decided not to do the Pumpkin Fest so they will not need the Toddler Train in October.

The Toddlers Trains are in need of 9 horns at $7.96 and 4 bells at $4.96, so about $100 worth of repairs.  Mary made a motion that we use our rental money that we just received from St Rose Church to purchase these items.  This motion was 2^nd by Linda, all approved.  Mary will pick these up sometime soon.  It was suggested that we consider amending our Toddler Train rental agreement to include mileage.  After some discussion, this was tabled until our next meeting.  We requested a quote from Jill Ellefson to paint the sign on the Toddler Train trailer.  We did not receive that as of yet but Tim offered to quote a decal sign for it which might be more durable and longer lasting.

Tyler Ramsbey asked to take the month of October off from blogging due to moving and having a baby.  Linda made a motion that we pay him for October because several months he does multiple podcasts.  This motion was 2^nd by Mary, all approved.

Palisade State Park campsite Christmas:  Luke Dreckman introduced this idea at our August meeting and asked the group to think about it and give ideas and input.  They have 22 sites with power and will be open for set-up December 2^nd-6^th with the display offered the 6^th, 7^th and 8^th and ask that the displays be removed by December 12^th.  They will be charging only the park entry fee.  In addition to this, they might offer a 1 mile fun run in the park and also offer 5 or 6 craft vendors to set up sometime on the 7^th.  They would like to have Santa there at some point as well.  More details to come.

Luke Dreckman shared the results of the surveys with us.  They received 118 surveys back which was more than expected.  The surveys were handed out July 6^th – August 27^th.   The hand delivered them and they received 21% back

Hometown Christmas:  It was brought to our attention that the trailer court’s address is Dows Street, which is Candy Cane Lane but the “Trailer Court” is listed as Penguins on Parade Lane.  Mary will remove the “Trailer Court” from the listing since they are part of Dows Street.  We discussed a need to have a committee to get the Christmas Lanes cut-out orders going.  No one jumped on board.  Last month we agreed on an early bird incentive for ordering cut-outs but now we need to advertise this.  The Vendor Fair will be at the Legion, crafts will be at the School commons.  Guy will get us the contract and we’ll need to pay for janitorial service for clean-up. The Parade of Lights will begin at 5:30 again.  Kris Rogen has agreed to open her home to the Nativity Tour again. We’ll do the breakfast again this year.  John does not have a plan as of yet as to when he will be working on lights and asking for help.  Carrie shared with the group that Grow Garretson plans for a fund raiser for a new Picnic Shelter in Splitrock Park by offering a Splitrock Park Christmas.   They will be offering this to individuals or Business sponsorships for $25 a campsite.  There are 12 electrical campsites and 4 tent campsites (no power). The park will close November 1^st for those to start preparing their campsite and weather permitting, asking  that the displays be removed by January 11^th.  They will start offering the drive thru the park the weekend after Thanksgiving and go thru the weekend following Christmas.  They would like Santa to be at the bath-house sometime during HomeTown Christmas, which could be instead of at the crafts or in addition to.  They would like to bring back the bag of peanuts and an apple.  It was mentioned to possibly have Santa down there after the parade of lights and maybe businesses could offer late night shopping that evening as well.

We discussed again that we would pay one winner $100 for the best lite-up residence since that is what we budgeted for versus having multiple winners.  We discussed having a traveling trophy for the storefront winner.

We did not have time to discuss much on the Annual meeting but Mary asked that everyone be thinking of possible replacements for any board members that would like to give up their position or want to work into Vice President if currently on the board.  Positions that will be up for renewal are: Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and two additional board members.  Mary asked Luke to bring the park survey information that he shared with us today to also bring it to the annual meeting.

Kris Johnson said they have lots of Jesse James Road Race t-shirts left if anyone would like to purchase one for $10.            

M/S to Adjourn:  1^st by Kris and 2^nd by Guy

 The next monthly Membership Board meeting will be Wednesday, October 9^th at the “O”s (11:30 meal, 12:00 -1:00 meeting)