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MEETING MINUTES


August 19, 2007


MEETING STARTED ---3:06PM

ATTENDANCE TAKEN THRU SIGN-IN SHEET

PLEDGE OF ALLIEGANCE

READ PREVIOUS MINUTES---MINUTES APPROVED TONY MOTION, 2ND BY SUE COX, ALL MEMBERS AGREED


FINANCIAL

TOM READ FINANCIAL REPORT AND WILL SEND OUT BY EMAIL TO KEVIN

BANK BALANCE: AROUND $940.

CHECKS FROM NEWSLETTERS $745, SUE GAVE HIM $140.00

MONEY SPENT ON NEWSLETTER $90.00, TOM DONATED REST AS PART OF HIS DUES


REPORT OF OFFICERS:

TONY SPOKE WITH DAVE DUGLER, HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY BUT WAS UNABLE TO MAKE IT, SUPPOSEDLY HAS PICS OF INNER URBAN WHILE IN OPERATION, HE WILL BE AT NEXT MEETING, TRYING TO TRACK DOWN DEAN GALLOP. TONY LEFT MESSAGES AT HOME & BUSINESS FOR DEAN, APPEARS THAT MAJORITY OF CLUB WANTS TO MEET TO DISCUSS SHARING BUILDING.

LOG CABIN AT FAIRGROUNDS, DONATED BY MCDONALD FAMILY, THEY TOOK IT BACK AFTER FAIRGROUNDS NEEDED SPACE

MARTY MCDONALD, HEADED UP GETTING BUILDING UP TOWN MARKED AS A HISTORICAL LANDMARK, TONY LEFT MESSAGE FOR HER TO DISCUSS GETTING INNER URBAN SET UP AS HISTORICAL SITE. TOM HAS INFO, DICK LOWRY SET UP OLD CHURCH IN UNIOPOLIS, HE CAN HELP GETTING SET UP AS WELL.

TRANISTION FOR BUILDING WILL GO RAPIDLY ONCE TONY CAN GET AHOLD OF EVERYONE.

KEVIN INTRODUCED SOME NEW PEOPLE THAT HAS COME TO MEETING FOR FIRST TIME.

KEVIN WENT TO CHECK ON PLAQUE AGAIN, ASKED ABOUT A BRONZE PLAQUE, THEY SAID THEY COULD PAINT ONE. WE NEED TO DECIDE THE SIZE OF THE PLAQUES OR IF WE WANT INDIVIDUAL PLAQUES FOR EACH DOLLAR AMOUNT. KEVIN WANT TO INVITE GENTLEMAN OUT TO DISCUSS PLAQUES AND BRING SOME EXAMPLES. TOM HAS SHOWN KEVIN AN EXAMPLE OF A PLAQUE THAT WAS SENT TO HIM. ALBERT MADE THE INITIAL COMMUNICATION FROM AIR FLIGHT (LIMA TROPHY)

NEED TO DECIDE HOW BIG WE NEED IT AND HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE ON IT.

TONY MOTIONED TO HAVE PLAQUE SIMILAR TO ONE THAT IS SHOWN INDIVIDUAL NAMES, MELINDA 2ND IT. MEMBERS AGREED

NOON DAY SHOW. IT DID NOT HAPPEN QUITE LIKE PLANNED, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR 8 TO 10 MINUTES BUT ONLY GOT 3 MINUTES, THEY HIT MAIN TOPICS, CHARTER MEMBERSHIP, INNER URBAN, WEBSITE, AND GETTING COMMUNITY INVOLVED. TONY HAS GOTTEN SOME CALLS AND SO HAS KEVIN IN REGARDS TO SHOW.

NEWSLETTERS GETTING OUT WAS A VERY GOOD THING, KEVIN HAS GOTTEN SOME CALLS IN REGARDS TO IT. SOME NEWSLETTERS GOT PUT IN MAILBOXES AND POSTMASTER CALLED AND EXPLAINED THAT WE CANNOT DO IT UNLESS IT HAS A POSTMARK ON IT.


NEW BUSINESS:

TOM CALLED NEWS GAZETTE DISCUSS AT NEXT MEETING, WE CAN GET NEWSLETTER MAILED FOR $.11 EACH. NEWSLETTER TO BE RAN 4 TIMES A YEAR.

SHAWS HERE, MRS SHAW HAS 60TH REUNION THIS SEPTEMBER , SHE GRADUATED WHEN PERRY STILL SHIPPED STUDENTS TO SHAWNEE FOR GRADUATION, SHE DIDN’T KNOW IF WE WANTED TO HER TO MENTION THE SOCIETY TO HER CLASS. KEVIN WILL PREPARE A LETTER FOR THE REUNION TO HAND OUT OR POSSIBLY MAIL TO PEOPLE SO THEY COULD BRING PICTURES TO THE REUNION WITH THEM.

MRS SHAW DISCUSSED WHERE THE MARSHALL’S PROPERTIES WERE. ASKED IF THEY STILL OWNED ANY LAND IN PERRY. DISCUSSED HER HOUSE BEING OWNED BY THE MARSHALLS.

KEVIN WAS TALKING TO A GENTLEMAN RELATED TO THE MARSHALLS, (LARRY SPRAGUE, HE IS SUPPOSED TO GET KEVIN PICTURES AND INFO IN REGARDS TO THE WARSAW STORE AND RACE TRACK.

TOM WARD CALLED AND WANTS TO BE A MEMBER AND HE HAD ONE OF THE OLD RACE TRACKS, HE HAS A BUNCH OF PICS OF THE RACE TRACK

MRS SHAW, SEPTEMBER 15 AT NOON AT HERITAGE PARK FOR REUNION, KEVIN MAY TRY TO ATTEND TO TALK TO SOME OF THE PEOPLE THERE. EUGENE RULAND THAT LIVED ON 65, HE LIVES IN MENDON NOW HE WOULD COME AROUND TO VISIT CLASSMATES, SHE ONLY SEES HIM NOW WHEN THEY HAVE A REUNION.

DONNA SHAW WAS INTO GENEOLOGY SHE HAD LOTS OF STUFF THAT COULD BE ABOUT PERRY TOWNSHIP. KEVIN HAS BEEN TRYING TO GET A HOLD OF PEOPLE TO SEE WHO HAS ALL OF HER STUFF . SHIRLEY SHAW (MULLHOLLAND)NOT SURE WHO ENDED UP WITH ITEMS.

KEVIN WAS TO ATTEND PERRY FIRE DEPARTMENT RETIREMENT PARTY.THEY WERE HAVING IT IN HONOR OF GILBERT ACCOUNTIS, HE IS THE ONLY ACTIVE ORIGINAL MEMBER OF PERRY FIRE DEPARTMENT. IT STARTED IN 1953. HE WAS HONORED WITH NEW RADIO, STANDING OVATION.

JOHN GERSTNER WAS GOING TO TRY TO TALK TO HARRY BUTTERFIELD TO SEE IF HE HAS ANY PAPERS OR PICS OF TOWNSHIP.

TOM NEEDS TO FINISH 501 C 3, ALMOST DONE. LAWYER USED BASIC TEMPLATE, WE NEED TO ADD SOME FEW THINGS. NEED TO AMEND OUR ARTICLES TO INCLUDE THESE ITEMS

WE NEED TO ADD ARTICLE 5 TO BILAWS, MOTIONED BY TOM, 2ND BY TONY ALL MEMBERS AGREED COST IS $50

TOM WE NEED TO GET NEWSLETTERS TO BUSINESS IN PERRY, CREATE A CENSUS FORM TO INCLUDE IN THIS SO WE CAN GET SOME CURRENT INFO ON ALL BUSINESS IN PERRY. WILL BE ABOUT $100 TO SEND TO ALL BUSINESSES. KEVIN HAS BEEN IN TOUCH WITH SOME BUSINESSES IN THE TOWNSHIP. EX: SKYLINE CHILI CAN PUT OUR PAPERS UP IF THEY HAVE SOMETHING ON LETTERHEAD AND THEY MAY BE ABLE TO BECOME CHARTER MEMBER AS WELL.

MOTION TO SEND NEWLETTER TO ALL BUSINESSES, MOTION TONY, 2ND BY SUE, ALL APPROVED.


TOM THOUGHT THAT PLATINUM OR GOLD MEMBERSHIP SHOULD GET CERTIFICATE SAYING THEY ARE MEMBER, NEED TO DO MEMBERSHIP CARD. TOM WILL DESIGN SOMETHING AND BRING BACK TO NEXT MEETING FOR DISCUSSION.

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE, COMING ALONG PRETTY GOOD, ANYTHING TO MAKE IT BETTER. TONY IS GOING TO TALK TO PEOPLE AT FAIR, FLYERS ARE ALSO AT FAIR, KEVIN HAS BEEN HANDING OUT LOTS OF FLYERS, WEBSITE WAS ALSO PUT IN SCHOOL NEWSLETTER,

TONY IS GOING TO SCHOOL BOARD MEETING AND TALK ABOUT GETTING SCHOOL MORE INVOLVED WITH ASSIGNMENTS ABOUT TOWNSHIP.

TOM (CASINO) IS THERE ANY WAY TO GET CEMETARY PROTECTED FROM CASINO, WE NEED TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO AS A GROUP. TONY WILL MENTION IT TO THE TOWNSHIP AT NEXT MEETING ON TUESDAY NIGHT 21ST TO SEE WHO OWNS IT.

SUE WANTS TO KNOW IF SOMEONE JUST WANTS TO DONATE, SHOULD WE GIVE THEM A LETTER OF RECOGNITION? WE NEED SOME TYPE OF THANK YOU THAT WE CAN SEND OUT.

MICHELLE GRAHAM WANTS TO MAKE SURE, FOUNDING MEMBERSHIP ANYTHING OVER $100 ANNUAL FEES ARE INCLUDED FOR INDIVIDUAL OR FAMILY?

SOMEONE NEEDS TO ASK ATTORNEY WHAT HE THINKS FOR AGE LIMIT TO VOTE? MOVED UNTIL NEXT MEETING UNTIL ATTORNEY CAN BE ASKED

$100 & ABOVE INCLUDES FAMILY MEMBERSHIP.

KEVIN WILL ASKED MUSEUM AND ATTORNEY IN REGARDS TO GRANGE SEAL, HOW WE GO ABOUT GIVING TAX PAPER FOR CREDIT.

BILAWS STATE IF SOMEONE LOANS IT TO US IT WILL GO BACK TO THEM, OTHERWISE IT HAS BE GIVEN TO ANTOHER NON PROFIT IF WE SHOULD FOLD.

MRS SHAW TALKED TO RICHARD LOWRY COULD NOT COME HERE TODAY, HE IS TOO BUSY TO GET INVOLVED WITH ANYMORE.


INNER URBAN BEST SITE FOR ANY HISTORICAL EVENTS .

TOM, SAYS WE ARE GOING TO START SETTING GOALS, MICHELLE TO GIVE SOME FUNDRAISING IDEAS AT NEXT MEETING. IDEAS WERE HAVE A TRACTOR TYPE CAR SHOW,

NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON DEAN GALLOP. DAVE DUGLER SAID MOTORCYCLE CLUB HAS MONEY THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH.

TONY SAID LOTS OF MONEY OUT THERE FOR GRANTS WE MAY BE ELIGIBLE.

SOME MOTORCYCLE CLUBS WORRY THAT THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO USE THE CLUB ONCE IT IS HANDED OVER TO US.

TONY MOVED TO ADJOURN , MICHELLE 2ND , ALL MEMBERS AGREE







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