General Meeting Minutes

Kendrick Grange

Thursday, February 19, 2015 3:30 p.m.

Executive Board Members Present: Sharon Harris - President, Richard Abrams-vice president, Chris Kowrach Treasurer, and Jan Patterson Secretary 

Executive Board Members Absent: none 

Others Present: Loeda Reil 

1.     Sharon called the meeting to order at 3:34 p.m.

 2.     The minutes of the annual meeting January 15, 2015 were accepted with corrections.

 3.     The treasurer reported that there is a total balance of $19,189.21 in our accounts. Chris also gave us a detailed report on our 2013-2014 income and expenses. 

4.     Committee Reports:

a.)   Publications Committee reported that we sold 3 Southwick books, 2 Leland books, 2 Kendrick DVD’s, 10 Kendrick tour books, 11 Juliaetta DVD’s and 23 Juliaetta tour books over the past month.

b.)   Sharon reported that our face book usage runs from 500 to 1,000 viewers per week.

c.)    On our publication project Sharon reported that the Tramway book has been started.

d.)  Chris reported that the web site usage has doubled since having the newspapers available on-line.

e.)   A museum report was given by Chris; she reported that around 90% of the displays are finished. It was also discussed that we need a work day to help get the museum ready. 

5.     Old Business:

a.)   Sharon reported on the KJ&7 meeting and said that Jamie Britton seemed pleased to be our JKHF star of our community.

b.)  Jan reported on the sales of the Juliaetta tour book and DVD’s seem to be doing well at the Juliaetta Market. Sharon will work on new signage that will show locations to purchase tour books and DVD’s.

c.)   JKHF Museum opening has been set for Saturday April 25 from 1 to 4. We discussed calling the event “Memories of the 1900’s”. We also discussed refreshments, advertising and started a list of guests that we plan to invite to the museum opening.

d.)  Chris led a discussion on 2014 & 2015 and beyond projects.

e.)   The Clearwater Historical Society members visited JKHF in January; they brought all the research and information that Tom Forbo gathered about local Tramways. This information will be used in the tramway book. 

6.     New Business:

a.)   Sharon reported on recent donations that have been given to the JKHF.

b.)  Chris needs someone to audit JKHF 2014 accounting records. Jan will look over the records and return them to Chris in the next few weeks.

c.)   We discussed and voted to have Doug Crockett be JKHF computer and web site consultant.

d.)  Chris discussed results from her survey about changing the JKHF meeting time, since there seemed to be hardly any response it was decided that we would have are next meeting on Saturday March 7, 2015. This meeting will be at 1:00 p.m., after a morning working on the JKHF museum.

e.)   Sharon and Chris will work with a group of volunteers from the science class at KHS on Friday Feb. 27^th.

f.)    It was voted on and approved to purchase 3 large digital frames to be used by the JKHF in our displays in the museum.

g.)  Chris is working to update our insurance policy for the grange building.

h.)  Sharon is going to work on an article about the JKHF museum that she hopes will appear in the Rural Life.

i.)    Richard will check on getting a fire extinguisher for upstairs in the museum. 

7.     Next Meeting: Will be on Saturday March 7, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. — a work morning on the museum from 9 to 12:00 at the Fraternal Temple.

8.     The meeting adjourned at 5:23 p.m.

            Jan Patterson, Secretary

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