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Diamond Valley Chamber of Commerce Annual General Meeting March 12, 2008Present: Kim Edwards (The Eagle 100.9FM), Brenda Attwood (DV Agencies), John Kirinic (Dundee), Mike King (MWK Consulting), Rudy Sorge (Planet Auto),Betty Paul (Pegasis), Gord Tomte (Pegasis), Sandra Henry (Femme Fatale), Maryanne Jespersen (Maryannes Eden), Tanis Downey (Cataract Creek), Pat Lethrop, Lynne Tonita (Characters & Curios), Jason Spicer (Pharmasave), Deidra Spicer (Pharmasave), Shaylene Gladstone (Shay's Tack), Barb Froud (Webby) Meeting was called to order at 7:05 by Barb Froud. Everyone was welcomed Moved by John and seconded by Kim that the minutes of May 9, 2007 be adopted as presented, carried Moved by Lynne and seconded by John that the 2007 Financial report be adopted as presented, carried Signage Committee - Tanis reported Signage affects all business and the community Looking at the type of sign that projects out from the store - possibly pursuing Needs to be able to stop traffic and attract people There has been a decrease in sales and in people coming into the shops Need to identify what businesses are with the signs The committee will be meeting with Alberta Transportation to discuss their options Looking for uniformity for all business Radio Campaign - Kim reported Kim advised the members what the radio campaign was about and how we accomplished it with TDR (Tourism Destination Region) as a parternering campaign Partners had to be tourism related, The Chamber and TDR From the webstats the program appears to be successful, not sure about the individual businesses yet. Elections: Barb asked John and Tanis if there names still stood. They advised that they did. Barb asked for further nominations for all positions available. Barb was nominated for Secretary and Jim Lawton was nominated for Treasurer. Moved by Mike that John be President, Tanis be Vice President, Barb be Secretary, and Jim be Treasurer seconded by Lynne and carried. Moved by John and seconded by Betty that we purchase a gift certificate for the Banff Gondola for Helmut for all his hard work, carried. John to see if the towns are willing to kick into the gift if not we will look after the purchase. Moved by Barb and seconded by Betty that we change the signing authority at ATB to John Kirinic, Tanis Downey and Jim Lawton with any two of the three signing carried John spoke about how he sees the Chamber moving forward:
of hits on the site and the more info up there about each business the better it works for advertising. Look at a Diamond Valley Chamber brochure Higher profile guest speakers could possibly be invited. Open event where members would get a discount on the price. Meetings to stay at 7pm but will look at the Flare and Derrick as the location with it being on the main street it will probably attract more interest Every meeting 1 or 2 businesses owners will stand up and give a 5 minute talk on what their business does. Last 15 minutes of each meeting to be a networking opportunity Moved by Barb to strike a committee to organize an artwalk. Maryanne, Lynne and Pat all willing to work on it seconded by John and carried Moved by Barb to strike a Fundraising Committtee seconded by Betty and carried. Sandra and Shay interested in working on it. Mike suggests that we hold a large event with a local musican complete with a dinner and charge $75/person and have it as a formal event. Would be good for end of May beginning of June. John and Kim to work on getting Doc Seeman to come to one of our meetings as a speaker. John will work on getting Seclusion Valley to come to the next meeting to discuss what it going on with their development. Meeting adjourned at 8:30 Next meeting April 9th 7pm - 9pm Flare and Derrick (tentative) Diamond Valley Chamber of CommerceValley Neighbors ClubTurner Valley May 9, 2007 Annual Meeting Minutes Present: Kim Edwards (The Eagle 100.9FM), Bill Price (Town of Black Diamond), Helmut Morscher (Webby Inc), John Kirinic (Dundee Wealth), Barb Froud (Webby Inc), and Glenn Stiller (The Firestarter) Moved by Bill to adopt the agenda as presented with the following addition: Reduce Meeting Quorum Moved by Helmut to approve the minutes of March 8 and April 5, 2006 as presented, carried Treasurer's Report - N/A As we are having difficulty getting a quorum out to our meetings, Helmut moves that the bylaws be amended to remove the 2 year term for executive members. In the future if an executive member wishes to remain in office for longer than the 2 years they would need to be elected again at the elections held every 2 years seconded by Glenn and carried. Helmut provide the members with a brief description of the positions of: President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer Moved by Glenn that the existing executive remain in their offices with the exception of Treasurer and that John Kirinic be our Treasurer seconded by Kim and carried.
Barb to provide membership list to him. John suggested doing a Canada Post Drop for advertising that we are open to not only business members but members of the community as well. Inform them of: What we do, What the Benefits are, We are open to Everyone, and Website address. 1800 - 2000 copies, trifolded are approximately .05 each at Staples and ready in a few hours. Moved by Glenn that we go ahead and do a direct mail for a trial of 1 - 2 months. Helmut to make up the original seconded by Kim and carried. Moved by Barb to have Danielle removed from our financial signing authority at ATB and John added where any two of the following three can sign on behalf of the Chamber seconded by Helmut and carried:
The Eagle 100.9FM - Kim Edwards Kim is here to introduce the members on how TDR, The Chamber, Chamber Members and The Eagle can partner for advertising in a cost effective method for our members.
The chamber would be responsible for $2700 and each participating member would be $450, based on 6 members participating, seconded by Glenn and carried. Meeting adjourned 10:05pm |