I. Call to
order
Sheila
Barbuck, Board Member, called to order the monthly meeting of the Grant Chamber
Of Commerce at
II. Roll
call
The
following persons were present: Brent
Parker, Sheila Barbuck, Josh Barnes,
Mayor Samatha Lemley, Faye Frazier, Joe Powell, & Terri Powell.
III. Approval
of minutes from last meeting
A
motion was made by Sheila Barbuck to approve the minutes from the July 2007
meeting, a second motion to approve the minutes as read was made by Josh Barnes. All COC Board members voted to approve the
minutes from 2007. There was not a meeting for the month of June because a quorum
was not in attendance. The Treasurer’s report
prepared by Josh Barnes, stated a balance on hand as of
IV. Committee
Reports
* BRAC (Sheila Barbuck-Chairman)
Sheila
Barbuck reported a BRAC meeting would be taking place in
*
No Report
* Events (Faye Frazier-Chairman)
Faye Frazier mentioned have another
Early Bird Coffee sometime in October.
Josh Barnes
stated that Peoples State Bank Of Commerce would host the event at the bank.
* Golf Tournament (Don
Milligan-Chairman)
No Report
* Membership (Jean Brewer-Chairman)
Sheila Barbuck said that she would re-bill for COC
Members from the previous 2006 year
if they have not renewed yet for the 2007 year.
Josh mentioned that Joe Powell had spoke
with John Ross about joining the chamber and he would be mailing the chamber a check
for membership in the upcoming week.
* Business Development (Josh Barnes-Chairman)
No
Report
* Tourism (Danny Lewis-Chairman, Terri
Powell-Vice Chairman)
Terri Powell gave an update on
Tourism in
V. Old
Business
* The
board decided they would check with other chamber members to get a date set on
the Early Bird Breakfast in October, since there would not be enough time to
plan a breakfast in for the month of September.
* Josh
Barnes stated the vote was unanimous to elect Joe Powell to the Grant Chamber
Of Commerce Board Of Directors. Josh
said that Joe Powell would take Cherly Kennamer’s seat on the board. Cheryl had sent a e-mail to the members a few
weeks prior stating due to conflicts with her business she did not have the
time to be on the Grant Chamber Board Of Directors and they she would like to
resign.
VI. New
Business
* The
date was set for the 2nd Annual Mile Plus Yard Sale for Saturday
September 29th. Mayor Lemley
said that the motion passed at the last city council meeting to let the City Of
Grant charge $10.00 for everyone that would be having a yard sale on September 29th. The money would go back to the chamber to
cover advertising and other expenses incurred from the event. Sheila Barbuck said that she did speak with
Chris Clark from the Grant Boy Scouts about cleaning up after the yard sale on
September 29th. Sheila recommended
giving them a donation to go toward their upcoming camping trip.
* Joe
Powell told the board that both he and Sheila both had already received several
calls about the upcoming Mile Long Yardsale that the Chamber would be hosting
in September. He said that he would
order banners to place around the community to advertise the yard sale and get
with Josh to start working on advertisements that would run in the Advertiser Gleam,
Huntsville Times, & the Scottsboro Newspaper during the month of September.
* Mayor
Lemley stated that we needed to check on prices for renting portable toilets
for the yard sale. Joe Powell said that
he had a few contacts in the business so he would check renting the portable
toilets for the Saturday of the yardsale.
VII. Adjournment
The
meeting was adjourned by Sheila Barbuck
at