Minutes from board meeting:
September 6, 2008

The Board of Directors meeting was called to order at 
12:29p.m.  At the Coralville Library with 10 people present.
Brenda Nelson, Brenda O'Halloran, Sandy Langenberg, Patty Smith,
April Kirchhoff, Mari Howell-Verry, Mira Sahu, Louise Rhode,
Alicia Weithers and Amanda Swenka.

We Thanked Brenda N. for making the room arrangements, Mari
for hosting the previous meeting and for the training, and
Sandy for canceling the other room we had arranged to hold
the meeting at.

Brenda N read the minutes from the May meeting. There were no
additions or corrections. 

The treasures report was $1287.83. The treasures report was
accepted as read.

Internet update there have been some new founded favorite
author one being Brian Lies books Bats at the Library and
deep in the swamp and a sister's poem.

Patty informed us on who is eligible to run for the upcoming
election: Sandy, Brenda N, Brenda O, Louise, Diana, Mari,
Patty, Amanda, Allison, Mari, and April

Louise read us a letter from the 4 C’s thanking us for the
$100 gift.

We discussed the Membership packets, Brenda N, showed USDA
materials found at mypyramid.gov there were posters, lesson
plans, and recipes.

Unfinished Business:

	*  We got a quote on the tee shirts, $20.00 per graphic,
        $10.22 -$15.00 for polo, with a minimum of a dozen
        ordered. Brenda N was going to get more info on this.
	*  The Lions club meets the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of
        the month. Sandy was going to check to see if November
        19th would be ok to give the presentation.

New Business:
	*  For the February general membership we talked about
        brainstorming some activities we could do at the Lions
        club Pancake Supper/ breakfast.

At 2:00 we took a break.

We discussed some fund raising ideas:
	*  Walden books offers a fund raiser, we would get
        one coupon that we could copy off to hand out to our
        clients, family, friends, ect.  we would receive 1%
        of the sales. Brenda N was going to check with Barnes
	and Noble to see if they had any fund raisers similar.
	*  April was going to check with The Coral Ridge Mall
        about the gift wrapping for this year.

April was appointed as an alternate on the IFCCA board until
a permanent alternate could be voted on at the October general
meeting.

We discussed the Membership forms and decided they should be
updated every year.  Changes were made on the current form,
so that a member must sign the form for their name, phone,
city where they live, initial membership and attendance could
be put on the web site.

	*  Nominations for Officers are as follows:
		Co-chair 1-Louise
		Co-chair 2- Brenda N
		Treasury - Sandy
		Sectary- April
		Resource- Patty
		Internet- Mari
		General Membership Representatives- Alicia
                and Amanda

	*  Declined Nominations were:
		Sectary- Amanda
		Co- chair 1- Brenda N
		Co- chair 2 - Louise
		Internet- Brenda O

Discussed upcoming trainings:

North Liberty Rec center would cost us $15.00 a night for
residents and $30.00 a night for non-residents.  The ICCSD
would cost $60.00 per meeting, plus needed insurance.

October- room arrangement by Alicia Weithers

November- check with Vanija on culture awareness

December- topic of discussion

January-check with Kristi Cooper on stress solutions

February- Prepare for Lion's club breakfast

March- Boredom busters

April- Music part 2

May- food program

June- Kindergarten readiness 

	*  The next Board meeting will be November 1st at
        Bob's your Uncle after the conference  approximately
        1:00
	*  Next fun event Nov.8th at Alicia Weithers, road
        trip to Newton, time 11am-4pm topic felt boards.

Meeting was adjourned at 4:45