GUESTS Curtis Overton with First National Bank a guest of Harley Macklin.
FINES Jerry Regier and Scott Potucek were our morning Sergeants at Arms. Harley Mackin was fined for not greeting his guest at the door. Hmmmwe usually allow them to make there way into the room.Curtis Mitchell fined for starting the meeting at 7:0?. Is this getting to be a habit? He felt the board should pay for being long-winded. Or is it the person running the board meeting? Darren Wicks was fined for a comment he made in the board meeting referring that Don Grossardt was old. Many of us are getting there! Dennis Bockenstedt was fined for a legal notice in the paper. You can ask him about that. Followed by yet another round of pin taxes.
ANNOUNCEMENTS Reta Joy asked for any AMBUC photos that members might have that could be copied and used for the display booth at the Chamber annual meeting. I also received an e-mail that she will take a group photo this Friday. Eric Steinle paid to announce that Jim Kicklighter was the proud new father of two baby goats. I better leave that one alone. Doug Foss paid to announce that Dennis and Julie Bockenstedt has been a great asset to Circle of Hope at Trinity United Methodist Church. Jay Pitzer passed a signup sheet around for the next casino night on February 11th. Jerry Regier announced that he needs weekly dirt by phone, e-mail or hand written notes.
PROGRAM There was no speaker this week because there was an open discussion about building a replacement building for our booth at the Kansas State Fairgrounds following a committee meeting last week. It is too late to get a building built this year and we are looking at possibly doing this for the 2013 fair. Ward Davis did a preliminary cost estimate of approximately $79 per square foot for a conventional stick built building. Due to our building size traditional stick built would be less expensive than a steel building. This price does not include the cost of a vent hood for the waffle cone machines or any fixtures such as new serving or storage cases. This was based on our current building size of 24x45or approximately 1,100 sq. ft or $86,000 plus. The fair has offered us approximately 10 of additional space to the South of our booth because the Taffy booth is moving and the Corn booth could be moved over. There was discussion of adding this area to our present building size and also using the space for possible picnic tables in the interim. We will need to investigate if the new underground electrical service will need to be moved that is either in or near this area. The fair currently charges us $1,100 annually for our space and adding this additional space would add about $450 to our annual costs. If we build on this space it would add approximately 450 sq. ft. to our building costs or a total of $121,000 plus. After much discussion the decision was to first investigate what grant monies would be available to us which would greatly reduce what we would need to borrow to complete the project. We will also investigate grants available through National AMBUCS as well as local and area grants that might be available. The fair would like a letter of intent, as to what our plans are, as soon as possible. Final plans would be submitted later. Several members of the committee will meet with the fair to get answers for some of our questions and report back with this additional information.
50/50 DRAWING Eric Steinle won $28.
NEWSLETTER DRAWING Rick Mitchell was not here and did he know that William L White graduated from Auburn University, June 22, 1919, in Auburn Alabama? No one noticed my AU hoodie that I wore as a clue.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK National AMBUCS scholarship awards are given in what usual range of dollar amounts and there was one special award in the amount of?
CALENDAR – February 11, Casino Night, Kansas Cosmosphere, fund-raiser for a therapy dog.
NEXT MEETING Monte Montgomery, President, Greater Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce will be our program. Confirmed!!
Steve Conard, Editor