Minutes of Sodus Chamber of Commerce
General Membership Meeting
May 6, 2010
Location of meeting: Sodus Library New Annex Building
Secretary Report(P.Paprocki)-Minutes of March Meeting were approved as written
Treasurer Report(J.Hopkins)-Total for all acts=$4138.36
Old Business:
- Brochures: Wilma Young and Patty Paprocki worked on this together. Empire Weekly is printing them and they may be available by Samples of Sodus.
- Web Site: Each member is responsible for data on the website for their individual business. Input under “submit a listing” and then email the chamber so it can then be “approved”. New member registration will be changed to reflect this new procedure.
- Citizen of the Year Banquet: 117 attended-good reviews all around
- Scholarship raffle: per J Schuldt/ $900.00 raised.
Motion by PPaprocki to give 3-$300 awards with one dedicated to Ernie Piekunka
All present in favor-motion carried. Tracey Fox will work with the school to coordinate.
Question from J Schuldt: asking about criteria for awards. Specifically presented to a student that has not received any other awards. Discussion resulted in Patty Paprocki will check minutes to see what we have decided in past and Tracey Fox will check with School as well.
**Clarification of scholarship issue.
Review of minutes shows in 2008: School decides recipients. Criteria are graduating senior attending 2-4 yr vocational/college in a business related major, and have shown academic improvement. Chamber added last year the essay writing and a list of interests which would be forwarded to chamber once winner decided by school.
- Harvest Fest: Letters were sent and need to get school more involved.
- Main Street Funding Grant: all paperwork has been submitted to Wayne County Planning. 13 Property owners participated and totals were well over the $200,000 benchmark. Winners are announced in late summer, early fall. Seminar/workshop is being planned to train contractors for doing estimates and work. Advisory Board (Jim Hopkins, Darrell Vasseur, Don O’Neil, Dave Englert, and Mary Jane Mumby) will continue to meet to establish guidelines with assistance from Steve Heald
New Business
- Per the Mayor: Business moving into vacate location on Maple Ave where Pizza Tonight used to be-Deb Brown with Quilting, sewing,scrapbooking items.
- Sampling Sodus at Fly-in Breakfast-Manfred Lichti overseeing
Registrations should be sent to him directly. Looking for more to participate.
Form on web not easy to access. Need volunteers to man booth. Mary Jane Mumby will want company to make her happy.
Set up is Saturday from 4-6pm.
- Business brochure for area businesses-Barb Lucieer-no info since Barb not in attendance.
Carol Garland of the Sodus Library discussed the New Annex building with future plans for the building. Will be applying for grant moneys to make improvements. Friends of Library have done a great deal to clean up the building. Plan to hold Paperback book sale in the building June 4-6. Carol will move her office there , additional parking and connecting to existing library are all part of the vision for the new building. We enjoyed a dinner cooked by Pop’s Casseoles!
Next meeting June 3 –a picnic with the Cracker Box animals. Please call or email us your reservations.
Respectfully submitted,
Patty Paprocki/sec
