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Carlisle Chamber of Commerce
1. Previous minutes - Presented, reviewed. Motion to accept by Larry Watkins, seconded by Steve Wilson, none opposed and motion carried. 2. Executive Director Report - A. Binders have been created for each Board member. B. Review of calendar of upcoming events 1. Garden Party on June 3rd – will include multiple open houses, and there is some talk about holding the City Wide Garage Sales that day. Farmers Market will be in session. Old tractor display is being arranged, along with a quilt display and Sisters Place will be having a Blues band and BBQ. C. Ethyl was approached by Alan Wiese regarding a Welcome Wagon packet thatcould be distributed to new residents. Board held a discussion regarding the Chamber organizing this project. Will let membership know that these will be put together and all chamber members are welcome to develop a flyer or information sheet about their business to include in the packet. D. Beautification Committee – suggestion has been made to beautify 1st Street. The idea has been submitted to purchase old bicycles and turn them into flower pots with the bikes scattered along 1st Street. Chamber Board discussion held and motion made by Steve Wilson to move forward with this plan. Motion seconded by Tom Lane, all in favor, none opposed, Motion carried. E. WCED web site – Ethyl is in the process of updating information, she presented information regarding the LOIS system that interlinks information between city, county, state and federal information. Discussion held regarding changing our local Chamber Economic Development page to a LOIS link. Consensus between board members is to possible include this link as a “for more information” possibility but to retain our own specific Economic Development information that is specific just to the Chamber area and Membership. F. Discussion also held regarding updating web site to include an email link for the Carlisle Foundation. G. Ethyl has completed a report detailing the contacts she has made over the last months 3. Treasurers Report – A. Dues collected year to date: no new major memberships have been received this year although we have had multiple additions to general membership. B. $500.00 donation made to Dollars for Scholars for the annual Peach Affair. C. Per motion made at March Meeting $1000.00 will be donated to the city for the Shelter/ demolition of old house at 100 Garfield St. 4. Old Business - A. Committees: 1. Governmental/Community Relations – a. Signage Committee: met on Tuesday. Discussion regarding possible ideas was held and a decision was made to move forward on previous idea that had been developed. Way –Finding signs along the Highway would be quite cumbersome and would not actually serve the purpose intended. The annual cost of such a project may better be spent elsewhere. “Historic Downtown Carlisle” sign concept was reviewed and it was felt that this project would do as well to direct people to downtown area. The possible placement of the sign is the corner of 1st St. and Highway 5. on the School corner. The cost of the project will be around 6 to 8 thousand dollars total. We are investigating the possibility of people donating some time and talent to the development of this project. We understand the sentimentality of the current memorial located on that corner and are looking at how to incorporate this project also. We will also be looking at the possibility of locating a services sign off the bypass. The services sign would be more personalized for each business but will be quite costly also. 2. Membership – 80 members this year a. Hartford business – Three businesses have opted to join the Carlisle Chamber. b. Committee Assignments – some requests for changes have been made and will be presented to the members. 3. Program/Community Events – a. Bike Event – committee will meet again at 11:30 am on Monday. The plan is to hold a family event. Logistics regarding Sag wagons and cook have been located. Continue to work on possibility of sponsorships and designing a t-shirt for participants. Event is currently planned for June 29th. b. GDSM partnership Golf outing – Friday 8/18/06 4. Nominating – a. Committee plans to start meeting soon. Some ideas have been generated regarding expanding our “of the year” awards to include volunteers and educators. 5. Fundraising - a. Chamber directory is in final proofing stages and will be going to print with distribution planned for the end of April. 6. Finance – no updates 5. New Business - a. Celtic Festival representative will be present at the April membership meeting. b. GDSM partnership update – 1. June 4th Martha Wilits will be speaking at the partnership meeting 2. Affiliate presidents meeting will be on April 18th at 7:30pm. The focus will be on membership. Committee chair for membership will be invited. 3. DC trip – working on trying to get a larger plane. 4. I Cubs ball game - program is developed and will be presented for proofing. 5. Project Destiny – will start requesting that local and community leaders begin to educate the community on the project and hold community informative meetings. |