Place:
Lake Wobegon Trail Center
Sponsor: Kay's Kitchen
Secretary's Report: Approved -1st/2nd - Gunderson/Reinhart
Treasurer's Report: Approved - 1st/2nd - Dotzler/Ardolf
Fireworks - went well, very exciting, we are receiving calls asking if
we will be doing a presentation next year. Perhaps an ad in The
Newsleaders to let people know we are looking for donations for next
years presentation. Consensus is we should go ahead and get an ad
together.
Dwtn
Revitialization - Weyrens has received the marketing study. It will
be put it up on the webpage by the end of the week.
Riverbats - It was discovered that St. Cloud State University also has
the Aug. 8 Night at the Riverbats. We were promised 1st pitch and
between inning games. 29 businesses have committed to blocks of 25
tickets. We are shooting to sell 900 to 1000 tickets to help pay for
the fireworks. Davey is working with the Riverbats to solve the
problem. However, SCSU is expecting 600 people and the general
admission only seats 800 so there is the potential for a large
oversell. In addition the new SCSU President is expected to throw out
the first pitch and other activities are promised to SCSU. Quite a
conflict. We'll update you by email.
Membership - 10 more businesses have renewed. Many have promised
verbally - but have not come through. Please send in your renewal.
Business
attraction and retention group - what can we do to attract businesses
to our community? What are we known for? Can we feed into that? How
can we head in the right direction? Weyrens - the city would like to
help through marketing, chamber bucks, etc. Reinhart - should we
revamp Chamber Bucks? McDonald - EDA did a survey and got a
disappointing result. He wants to be active and would like to chair a
committee to try to have a business retention program. What is our
strength? What are our weaknesses? Davey - looking at the Chamber
Bucks would be a good way to start. How could we make them
effective? Bell - businesses need to train their employees to redeem
the bucks like cash. Committee is McDonald, Weyrens and Reinhart.
Announcements - Reinhart - we should keep those who have loved ones
who are deployed in their thoughts and prayers. Wensmann - thank you
to everyone for their support.
Kay's
Kitchen Sponsorship.
Adjournment: 1st/2nd - Gunderson/Dotzler
