Hello everyone!
This is still Rebekah editing the blog. I'm trying to find a way to hand it over to Tye, but can't figure it out. If you know how to do this, please help me out! Thanks! In the meantime, I'm transferring the notes that Tye typed out. Thanks Tye for the help! I added a little bit in the parenthesis.
** Voted on Officers, they are as follows -
President - Casey Ramos
Vice President - Aaron Jackson
Secretary - Tye Turner
Treasurer - Caka Household, lol (officially Rebekah:)
** Aaron Jackson's contact info:
cell: 512-696-9071
e-mail: aajrealtor@yahoo.com
** We talked about dues but nothing ever came of this, I do think we said not to charge dues and they can make a donation and buy a shirt. As long as they are a participating member, but I am not sure. (- Yes, we decided NOT to charge dues b/c there's nothing to give a paying member in return. If people want to donate money, that's great. But we're going to operate more on a volunteer type basis.)
** Check on outstanding money owed to the club.
** We are only having the one show this year in Georgetown, you already have all of that covered. But there was talk of concessions and I believe John & Sherry were talking to a guy who has done this for us or them before, but still not sure of which day is ours. Need to call Elaine (?) and talk to her about the concessions. (- Yes, Casey needs to contact Elaine and talk about this. John agreed to contact the last guy we used.)
**Advertising was also discussed, we decided to put an ad in the Gazette, as well as a flyer, which Aaron was going to redo and make current and I will post it all over the net and send out a mass e-mail and FB message as well as the forums I am a member of. I can also have it cross posted. We also discussed putting it in the Thrifty Nickel as well as the Austin, San Antonio, Waco, surrounding area newspapers.
** Raffle - I know I can get several things, and Travis said about the guy with the treadmill as a donation. We will get this together. And I am taking notes on who is donating what if it is a smaller business, to send out thank you cards. ( We discussed how important it is this time around to get all the contact info for the raffle donaters. Last show, we dropped the ball on this and would like to do better next time.)
** Trophies & ribbons are taken care of from what Casey said, they are all being put together and done at his house.
** Need to select judges & check on air flights for them, the sooner the better, lol. (Kerry's already sent out an e-mail with some info on this! Thanks Kerry! We still need to get judges approved by the ADBA before we move forward with booking flights, hotels, etc.)
** Contact, not sure of the guy's name, about books for the raffle. ( Fat Bill)
** I am going to call Lucretia and Tom about doing a little speech and setting up a table for the EBA.
** We also decided on 6 places to donate too, with a budget of $150.00, so $25.00 to each charity. Charities are as follows: Animal Trustees of Austin, TownLake Animal Shelter, Blue Dog Rescue, Bastrop Animal Shelter, Georgetown Animal Shelter & and I was thinking either the EBA or the RPOA, as I cannot find a shelter in Hays Co. Will look in the phone book and see what I can find.
** Is still a little bit away but need to find a representative to go to Las Vegas or ask Elaine to pick it all up for us. That is Feb. 25th.
** I also have contact info for Tom Lundberg, Laura Dapkus and Lucretia Ashcroft, i will send that to you when I get it all written down. I hope these notes are ok. (This is great- thank Tye!)
Next step is to get moving on picking the judges. We need to work on contacting Heather about this.
Thanks to all who attended the meeting! It was the best turnout so far this year, I believe! Awesome!
