December 2018 Board Meeting Minutes

IEMQG Board Meeting Minutes
December 10, 2018, 6:00 pm
Home of Laura Greene, Upland, CA

The meeting was called to order at 7:48 pm by Laura Greene, with the following members in attendance:  Laura Greene, Cat Wallace, Gayle Bennett, Jennifer Adams, Becky Brekke, Pat Klassen, Ruthann Salera, Simone Bradford, and Tricia Williams.

OLD BUSINESS

Committee Reports

Programs – Cat Wallace

The January Colourwerx Trunk Show – The speaker, Linda Sullivan, has been confirmed and we have a signed contract.  Cat will ask her to bring items for members to purchase.

February meeting – Lynn Hanna will show us an improvisational way to make a quilt, at a workshop to be held at Mountain Shadows Mobile Home Community.

March meeting – Alison Cutler will do a transition quilter presentation.

April meeting – Our first challenge quilts of the year, Inspired by a Board Game, will be presented, and Linda Rasmussen will be there to critique them.

May meeting – Kim Wingert will be speaking on Women’s History.

June meeting – Dora Cary from Orange Dots quilts will be our speaker.

July meeting – Christine Sharp – either transition quilter or trunk show.

August meeting – Possibly first and last quilts – now and then.

VP Communications – Jennifer Adams

Jenn will continue to do communications.  Jenn asked for clarification of committee chairs.

Ruthann Salera – Membership

Simone Bradford – Block Lotto

Pat Klassen – Hospitality

Laura Greene & Jessica Cook – Fund Raising

Rachel McGee – Charity

Alisa Howe – Raffles

We still need someone to do Social Media, since Becky is now taking over as Secretary.  Gayle will ask for volunteers at the next meeting.

Treasurer – Gayle Bennett

Gayle presented a projected budget for next year. She asked for more information on projected fund raising.  Laura said her goal is to raise $2,500 for the year.  She also said she will need $300 for expenses.  We agreed to budget $1,000 for speakers.  We discussed  possible meeting places and will continue to look into meeting rooms that we would not have to pay for.  Gayle will ask members for suggestions at the next meeting.

Gayle said that we need to vote on changing the signers on our bank account.  We need to remove Cindy Chrisler and add Cat Wallace and Tricia Williams  Laura Greene made the motion and Jennifer Adams seconded; the motion passed without further discussion.

Gayle informed us the Ontario Museum of Art offered to hold a reception for exhibit on December 22 from 12 -4- they will even provide refereshments.

Next Board Meeting – January 5, 2019 after the general meeting, possibly at Graciano’s in Colton.

January 5, 2018 – 2:00pm – 4:00pm
Community Center, Grand Terrace
22795 Barton Rd, Grand Terrace, CA 92313

 

1)      Welcome – Gayle

2)      Board and Chairpersons introduce themselves:

Trish-VP Programs

Future programs

Jen- VP Communications

Need Social Media person

Cat- Treasurer

Becky- Secretary

Show and share pics

Laura- Fundraising

Pat- Hospitality

Ruthann- Membership

Renewals

Simone- Block Lotto

Rachel- Charity

3)      Break – Visit and Snacks

4)      Program –   Linda Sullivan, Colourwerx

5)      Show and Share

6)      Raffles

The meeting was adjourned at 9:05 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Tricia Williams, Secretary