Recap of Feb Business Meeting

A big thank you to everyone who was able to make it to the meeting last night. I know that it threw some folks off since we did not have it on our regular night. We will be back on track for meetings on the first Tuesdays of the month starting March. The board met and this statement passed with a vote of 3-1.

The Junior League of Fairmont supports and promotes community efforts to ensure well rounded enrichment opportunities for local families by sponsoring educational events and providing cultural programs.

We can always revisit this if we find that this is too hard to remember. But this should be our impact statement, what we tell people when we are asked "What does the Junior League do"

We also took Nominations for the following offices: President Elect, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer. We also are taking nominations for Nominating Committee. The Board voted to allow the President to serve an additional term to have some continuity with the officers. We did secret ballot at the meeting but if you would like to nominate someone for one of the openings, please email Kathy by the 24th. Kathy will then be contacting those who were nominated and we are looking to have the ballot slated by the 26th. When you accept the nomination, you need to have a short biography sent to Kathy by the 25th to help some of our newer members know who they are voting for. This does not need to long and detailed, just a little blurb on how your experience might help you do the office for which you were nominated. Kathy will then email out the ballot on the 26th so that you have 5 days to look over it and we will vote at our March 3rd meeting. Kathy's email is kservian@yahoo.com.

We have again agreed to sponsor a book fair through Debbie Burget. This year the books will go to HeadStart. The Garden Expo will be held the weekend of March 6-8. I am asking that everyone signs up for a 2 hour shift sometime through the weekend. Friday is 5-7 and is the Business After Hours event. We are a member of the chamber so everyone is invited to attend this if they choose. Saturday is 10-6 and Sunday is 12-4. Cecilia has offered to go Friday at 11am to help Debbie set up if anyone else available to help. Please let me know what 2 hour shift you are able to work.

We also want to set up our Kids in the Kitchen event. Cecilia's Brownie Troop will be there on Saturday to help pass out health snacks. Does anyone have the Kids in the Kitchen stuff from two years ago? Does anyone know how we used to get the packets from AJLI? I am going to try and contact someone about it today, but it would be helpful if someone already had contact info.

We also only had one request from the Arbors..for a heating pad. Kathy has agreed to purchase that and deliver it.