August updates

Here's a brief overview of the meeting from Aug 7:

In attendance:From WSU: Krisan and Deb
From Republic: Sikander, Kate, Vicki, Deana and Jacob

Krisan returned some materials to the group that she felt we might need; Sikander agreed to put these materials as well as $40.69 of petty cash into the Horizons box at Shop The Frontier. Sikander requested more Steering Committee notebooks from Krisan, who said she'd send some along.

Deborah Drennan sent regrets but it is hoped she can attend later meetings; Pete Maloret was ill and unable to attend.

Krisan introduced to the group information from Betty Buckley that she would be willing to
1) House the Horizons money at Stone Soup once we formed the steering committee and could vote on allowing the money to be held at Stone Soup, the non-profit arts organization
2) Betty offered to teach a grant writing workshop for the committee
3 Betty offered to assist the group with a grant application
4)Betty also offered to help the group re-connect to some of the original members.

The group agreed we needed to move forward, and to do so, we need a formal steering committee. Because she is so familiar with the Horizons project, it was agreed to ask Debbie Drennan to write a "5 minute speech" members could use to take to various local organizations and civic groups to get some atttention on our project. Once the speech is written, the following people agreed to attend meetings and re-introduce Horizons to the local area in hopes of re-generating interest and creating potential steering committee members.

Vicki: Chamber of Commerce, Curlew School Board
Jacob: Comissioners meeting
Deana: City Council
Members suggsted Sikander invite Debbie to present her intro to Horizons to the Republic School Board.
Kate: the BPW was suggested as another important community connection but Kate informed the group BPW is not meeting again until September.
Deana suggested we also contact Five Star EC and Job Corps was another possible network.

Vicki Hanks suggsted that the Horizons project meetings and steering committee operate under the umbrella of the Community Mobilization group and hold meetings as part of the Mobilization meetings as a sub-committee; it was agreed that at the next meeting, both Betty and Vicki would present their ideas. It was further agreed that we need to hold the meeting and take a first action AS a board.

SO:
Step One: Vicki and Betty will notify Sikander of possible meeting dates when they can attend and present; then Sikander will pass this information on to the group so we can set a next meeting date and time.

Step Two: Hopefully, Debbie will write a "5 minute elevator speech" about Horizons: what it is, what it serves and how it works

Step three: Members will go to organizations and present this speech to generate interest in Horizons, notifying people of the next meeting

Step Four: At this next meeting, Betty and Vicki will present their ideas; then the group will make its first decision AS a group, sign on as Steering Commiittee members and take the first step towards bring the funds home to Ferry County.

Sikander will continue to maintain the blog until such time as another person wants to take over.

Update: September 3

Sikander wrote to Debbie regarding the speech and the temporary secretary position but to date has received no reply. No dates have been suggested by Betty or Vicki; on Sept 3 Sikander wrote a reminder in the event that the meeting email had not been received.