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Board Meeting Minutes
CITY' OF LAUREL
The Meeting was held on September 14, 2017 at Guadalajara. In attendance were: Executive Board
Members: President- Mary Lou Batalden,Vice President-Cindy Drake,Treasurer-Sandy Reese and
Chamber Assistant Camilla Nelson. Directors: Came Smith, Roger Heimbigner, Billie Lehman,Ann Soares,
Brent Renier,and Katie Whitmoyer, Members: Ken Gomer, Evan Bruce, Noelle Eaton and Matt.
Mary Lou called the meeting to order.
The minutes were approved: moved to approved
The financial report was approved and bills were presented for payment: moved to approve-Cindy, Carrie
2nd.
Bills to be Presented for payment:
Payne West(Bond Insurance) $125.00
Old BUSINESS
• LARC donation -A check for$2,100 was presented to LARC @ the Business after hours.
• Christmas Decorations- Marcia contacted Dennis Eaton. We will set up a time when it gets a little
cooler
• Lunch &Learn-Was September 7th. 12 people attended
New BUSINESS
• Brackets for Christmas Decorations- New brackets on new decorations kept falling last
year. WE bought heavy duty strapping and they still fall. Mark Cloud says the new
decorations are just that much heavier and the wind is getting worse. Some of the options
we discussed are one decoration on each pole or paying someone like Robertus to weld the
brackets right onto the poles. It was asked that a quote be presented before we did
anything with this.
• Off season hours- Do we want to stay open 9-4 or go back to 9-1? It was discussed to
stay open until 2 or 3 and see how that goes.
• Insurance- Mary Lou presented a new policy through Farmers Insurance. Curtis Iverson
was called to clarify some questions people had about still being allowed to throw candy
during the 4th of July parade. That is covered by the new policy. It was moved to approve
changing policies, Cindy- Billie 2nd
Ribbon cuttings- Town & Country- September 26th @ 12pm
FFA at the High School is opening a new greenhouse and would like to have a ribbon cutting once
it is finished. The school district is a member. No date has been set yet.
OPEN FORUM
• Halloween- Ideas were brought up for doing a downtown trick or treating on Halloween.
After some discussion we decided to do a Halloween carnival at the school. We will do a
costume contest and also have a window decorating contest for the businesses.
Business after Hours -
o October_Woods Powr-Grip
o November- Outlook?
o December- Holiday Open House
o April 2018-_Exchange Club
Meeting Adjourned Next meeting - October 12 , 2017 Fowl PLav