September Meeting Minutes

9/4/14

Unfinished Business-

Trivia Night-

Our first trivia night will be held September 12 at Sam’s Fargo in Moline. We need at least 10 tables, and by discussion it looks like we will have more that that! We are going to have 50/50, silent auctions, and raffles. We have several letters out to businesses for donations, and are looking for baskets, etc.  There are several people who don’t have a table, so we will be able to form a table that night. Everyone is encouraged to attend, even if they don’t have a talbe.

Dues-

Reminder dues for all members are due in September.

Swap-

October 18 at Bethany Baptist Church in Moline.  The church only have about 12-15 tables for us to use.  Called around for pricing to rent tables, and the cheapest we found was $4.90. All sellers are encouraged to hang as much as the can. Discussed several options for tables.

Fall Party-

The fall party will be held September 27th at Amanda’s house. The club will be providing hot dogs, s'mores, drinks, and a bounce house, and pumpkin painting.  A facebook event has been created. Please RSVP with the number of people attending.

Mother's Christmas Party-

December 4th at 6:30. Azteca will be catered. As always, ugly christmas sweater and gift exchange. A FB event has been created.

Family Christmas Party-

The YMCA in bettendorf was booked for the family party. It will be held December 6th from 6-8. We have the entire facility, and there will be a bounce house in the gym. Cookies and drinks will be provided by the club. Please bring your $5 gifts from Santa to the mom’s party.

Bylaws/tax ID number-

Being finalized.

Website-

Got a couple proposals for redoing and maintaining the website. Due to cost, and lack of interest, it was decided to let the website expire. We will try to utilize the blog more, and post update and events there as well.

New Business-

IMOTC- A rep contacted us about joining. More info will be at October’s meeting.

Member involvement- Discussed meeting attendance, Will make a survey to post on club page to see if day/time/location is a problem, and what members want to see the club do.  

February Meeting Minutes

Introductions (Attendance Sheet)

Announcements
- Cassie Stroyan (joined club at the last swap) had her triplets on Feb. 1st. Her message on facebook was that everyone is doing well and from looking at her pics it seems like they are all doing great for triplets. Addison Leigh 4lbs 7oz, Alexa Jo 4lbs 13oz, Avery Lynn 5lbs 1oz

St. Patrick’s Day Parade
-It was decided that since club did not pay for it we would look into the parade.
-We need to find a truck to drive to the kids can sit through the parade.
-Joanna will get the information about the parade--Update: Decided to pass on the parade this year due not being able to find a truck and not wanting to walk the entire thing with the kids.

Member Directory
- Passed out directory so that it could be updated.
- Jenny May offered to help get information uploaded to create a new directory.
- Also had members put information at the bottom of their sheet regarding areas they have dealt with and feel comfortable talking to a new mom about.
- Members not present please verify information with Ashley as soon as possible.

Future Meetings
- Talked about having guest speakers.
o Escape School (Juanita is going to get contact info to board)
o Bike safety (Joelle is going to get contact info to board)
o Ladies self defense
o Parents as teachers (Lisa S is going to get contact info to board)
o Pediatric Dentist
- Couples Potluck
o Decided we would do this instead of bowling night. Give dad’s a chance to talk and get to know everyone.
o Lisa is going to talk to some Palmer students to see if we can get babysitters for the kids and have them be in the carriage house while the parents meet in the main house.
o Decided everyone could pinch in a set amount to pay for sitters.
o Joanna is going to find out when both places are available. (Update--Sept 25 is a possible date when both the Carriage House and main house are available. Will discuss at next mtg.)

Future Swap
- Spring Swap is May 21st and 22nd
- Put together Swap committee. Anyone else interested in helping with swap beginning by updating the rules please contact Ashley Hicks.
Guest Speaker: Devon Schaff & Allison Knollman

Reminder: Next meeting is March 4th @ 7:00
Snack: Megan Thomas, Nancy Lamere
Drink: Rebecca McCarley

New Member: Evelyn Ross

Meeting Minutes October 2009

Introductions (Attendance Sheet)

November Meeting -Decided to have the home parties shopping day again.- If you sell or know of anyone who sales for a home based company please let the board know so that we can get a list of who is selling that day.- In the case of two people from the same company we will go with the first one suggested. -We put it to a vote to allow a adult party supplier also come to this meeting. Everyone was fine with it. If there are other opinions please let us know.

Mother’s Christmas Party-December 3rd at the Deere house. We decided to have Adolph’s cater in again. -Bring a $10.00 gift to pass -Bring a wrapped gift for your child if you want Santa to give your child a gift at the family party.

Family Christmas PartyDecember 6thTwo suggestions were given. 1) Bettendorf Community Center or 2) Bounce place. The board is going to call around and get prices for the bounce places. This will be discussed at the next meeting.

January MeetingCouples pot luck was discussed. What are the feelings suggestions on this?

Swap Meeting - We went over all the rules and any exceptions.Voluntary set up on 10/8 at 7:00 p.m.Friday set up 10/9 at 6:00. This is mandatoryPre sale at 7:30 starting with a little meeting.Juanita is going to check with Hy-Vee to see if they would donate some bags.Please remember to bring any bags you have.Jenny offered to make uniform signs advertising the sale. The board placed an advertisement in the local paper to advertise the sale.

September 3, 2009 Meeting Recap

Just a quick recap of what we discussed at our last meeting:

SWAP is Saturday, October 10. Our pre-swap meeting will be during our regular meeting time on Thurs. Oct. 1. We will go over rules, sign up for jobs, sign contracts, etc. The rules and example of the tag are on the website at http://www.qcmotc.org/. On Thurs. Oct. 8 we will meet at the church at 7pm to set up tables and racks. This is on a volunteer basis. Volunteers are permitted to bring their for-sale items into the building to be ready for Friday set-up.

I called the church about storing the racks and found out they will not be able to store them for us. We may have to divide up the racks and have members store them unless someone has room for all of them. We will also need to coordinate picking up the racks and delivering them to the church.

Another issue dealt with our rule that everyone must be there by 6pm on Friday. We discussed whether it would be all right if instead everyone was there by 7:30pm as long as everything gets set up. I will post a poll on the blog to vote on this.

Kim Bohannon and Jennifer Lindauer spoke about the Care for Kyle Benefit to support Heather Roseman's son Kyle. Please contact them if you are interested in volunteering. The club agreed to donate an Isabel Bloom figurine as a silent auction item. I will make sure it gets to the benefit on Sat. Sept. 19.

Please respond to me at qcmotc2@yahoo.com or to this post if you have any questions. I look forward to seeing everyone on October 1!

Joanna Lochner