Cedar Valley Sertoma Club
Business
Meeting-Minutes
Tuesday, February 15th, 2005
Present: Jessica Williams, Lloyd Berry, Chris Neuhaus, Carlin Hageman, and Joe Alemao
Treasurers Report-
General Account:
$1,891.30
Sponsorship Account:
$1,009.59
Treasurers Report - Chris motioned to approve
with Joe providing a 2nd.
Membership contest - as of Tuesday,
February 22 (after the Noon meeting totals were tallied) the team standings are
as follows:
Team 1 has 133
points!!!
Bob Robinson (captain)
Marie Robinson
Lloyd
Berry
Zach Dietrich
Phil Heath
Rick Koch
Travis Manske
Paula
Padavich
John Worthington
Team 2 has 57
points!
Donna Brown (captain)
Judy Harrington
Cliff
Highnam
Bill Robinson
Bill Smart
Ed Smith
Jessica Williams
Team 3 has 77
points!!
Carlin Hageman (captain)
Joe Alemao
Todd
Bohnenkamp
Carol Cooper
Troy Delagardelle
Dave Greene
Linda
Janssen
Chris Neuhaus
Remember - contest ends April 1 - no
fooling! and ... losing teams cook dinner for the members of the winning
team :-(
Review of Valentine's Fundraiser -
The fundraiser was very successful in terms of sales - we sold 281 rolls + donations (advertising really worked well). If and when all money is collected that should total about $1400 ... with gross profits likely to come in around $900 after expenses that include the buns themselves (from Granny Annie's), advertising, packaging and gift wrapping materials.
Many thanks to Sertomans Troy Delagardelle, Todd Bohnenkamp, Paula Padavich,
Carol Cooper, Chris Neuhaus and Carlin Hageman for helping to label, package,
and decorate the Valentine's rolls/packages. A special meritorious
commendation goes to Bob and Marie Robinson who had to leave early in the game
to have Bob's new arterial plumbing checked at Sartori Hospital. Also
thank you to Lloyd who helped us set-up (before we figured out what we were
doing) and pack-up (after we were too tired to know what we were doing).
Also special thanks to Brad Highnam for spending part of his weekend helping to
make this project happen.
The actual delivery of these rolls was a near
traumatic event as for most of the day we had only three/four Sertomans
delivering these rolls. A great big thank you to Lloyd Berry, Carlin
Hageman, Chris Neuhaus and Todd Bohnenkamp for doing the all-day deliveries,
Carol and Jessica for doing the long-haul-odd-hour deliveries, and to Cliff
Highnam for doing the emergency UNI deliveries.
A few deliveries
were missed - the result of some confusion on few addresses and just not enough
hours in the day.
Lloyd moved and Carlin seconded a motion to provide those people who were
missed on Valentine's day with larger "make-up" cinnamon rolls. This
motion passed unanimously.
A few ideas for making the Valentine's
Fundraiser go off more smoothly next year -
We need to place all
orders in a database that can then print labels - to/from/messages?
Do
NOT place the label on the box to be delivered until you are in front of the
house/business to which the Valentine is addressed.
No ribbons next year!
... Just stickers ... Sertoma stickers (either buy these from KC or make them
ourselves), Granny Annie's stickers, and Valentine stickers
We need to
create a network of delivery areas (block groups, voting precincts, zip codes)
and assign each order an area code for more efficient delivery. Note -
Shirley Berry suggested that we make/buy a large Cedar Falls/Waterloo Map and
place pins in the map as orders come in ... then create delivery areas based on
the concentration of sales.
Note - Internet utilities such as MapQuest
would have helped in this process ... especially the hard to find addresses.
We need to have the phone number of the recipients ... as well as the phone
numbers of the gift-givers.
If we get even more orders next year we may
need to have more than one Granny Annie's bakery helping us at a time ... though
Bob Stoner of Granny Annie's says he thinks he can do more if he has more help
(which he intends to get for Valentine's Day 2006). It was great working
with Bob and the Granny Annie's crew. They gave us a great price and a
great product!
We need more members! (Thus more drivers and
packagers).
Letter to Bob & Co. at Granny Annie's from Chris Neuhaus (Valentine's
Fundraiser Chair)
Bob and the Granny Annie’s Crew:
A
heartfelt Thank-You from all of us here at the Cedar Valley Sertoma
Club.
Our Valentine’s fundraiser was a successful one – we sold 281 boxes
(2 rolls per box) and we raised just under $1000.
Your rolls were
wonderful - we tested the extras to be sure :-) - and certainly appreciated by
everyone receiving them for Valentine’s.
I know baking these rolls was a
huge undertaking (we were almost overwhelmed by the task last year – and we only
sold about 180 last year).
Also we appreciate the discount you gave our
club – which allowed us to raise yet more money for Cedar Valley service
programs and charities.
A few notes about our club:
Our club
supports a number of charities and service programs throughout the Cedar Valley.
Services we support include:
Sertoma Foundation Grants for student
scholarships
Habitat for Humanity
Iowa Deaf Commission
Cedar Falls
Recreation Center – Girls Volleyball
Eagle Scout Kits
Up With
Families
Girl Scouts
UNI Speech and Hearing Lab – Roy Eblen Speech &
Hearing Clinic
Cedar Valley Soccer
Dial-A-Hearing Test
UNI – Iowa
Junior Solar Sprint
If any of you are interested in visiting our club
or possibly even joining our club – you would be most welcome.
We meet
every Tuesday from Noon – 1:00 p.m. at the Broom Factory in Cedar
Falls.
You may wish to visit our web site at - http://www.uni.edu/neuhaus/sertoma/
- or call me at 273-3718 to learn more about our club.
Best
wishes,
Chris Neuhaus
Cedar Falls Sertoma
Respectfully,
Chris Neuhaus