STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT: Jill Hall Anne Robbins, Councilwoman was also present and said she will not support new development in the city that does not have affordable housing for seniors. The minutes from the September 21, 2004 meeting were accepted. TREASURER'S REPORT: A report for the month of September was not completed due to the Treasurer’s illness. STANDING COMMITTEES: A. Budget: We need to have a separate line item in the Treasurer’s Report for the amount in long-term endowment savings account. Jill passed out the information regarding the endowment fund that will be in the November newsletter. There is no minimum amount of funds you can donate to the endowment fund but it is more for gifts of stock, appreciated property, life insurance, etc. Ron will contact Andrew Begosh about getting maximum interest for the endowment fund and will invite him to the next board meeting. Ron was also asked to write up his meeting notes that he had with bank regarding the endowment fund so that the Board has the information for the future. B. Ways & Means: Marjorie made a motion that RSI have $500 as the top raffle prize for the Holiday Bazaar. Marty R. seconded the motion. Motion carried. We need to send thank you notes to donors of other raffle prizes we have received. Virginia Sacco, who donated the afghan as a prize, asked that it be listed as a donation from Helping Hand Knitters and not from herself. Jill will have 3,000 raffle tickets printed at Graphics and we will have to cut them and stamp numbers. We have a student who volunteered to run the popcorn machine at the bazaar and she will also help at Bingo on Wednesdays. Betty B. granddaughter volunteered to make posters for the bazaar. We still need a volunteer to coordinate the kitchen. Marjorie is looking for volunteers to sell tickets at the Train Show. C. Bing We need volunteers. A student has volunteered to help on Wednesdays. We will not have Bingo on November 24. Ron would like to give out gift certificates as attendance prizes on November 17. Juan made a motion to purchase four gift certificates in the amount of $25.00 each for attendance prizes. Louise seconded the motion. Motion carried. D. Correspondence/Memorial: We received $25.00 from Senior Associates. E. Gift /Thrift Shop: The Gift Shop is doing very well. We made $1,450.83 in gross sales, $434.06 was paid to consignors with a net profit of $1,016.77. F. Publicity: Thank you to George for the ad in the Gazette – we received many calls for crafters. We will run the ad for the Holiday Bazaar the Wednesday before the bazaar. G. Senior Citizens Commission: Marty attended a MPDU meeting in the county. She also attended the meeting at the County Commission on Aging. H. Hispanic Services Report: The Hispanic Heritage Celebration was very good. The attendance in the Computer Classes in Spanish has been very good. I. Asian Services Report: At the previous Chinese Lunch we had a performance from Chinese musicians. They will perform once a month.
OLD BUSINESS: Discussion of See’s candy sales was revisited after profits were questioned. Marty was asked to speak with Lorraine Schack about having Senior Commission sell the candy and RSI would front the money for the purchase. George made a motion to fund the purchase of See’s candy up to $900 with the profit going to the Senior Assistance Fund conditional that Lorraine employ manpower and that from the money gleaned from this RSI gets $900 back. Juan seconded the motion. Motion carried. This changes the motion made on September 21. We need to not have so many small meetings outside of the monthly board meeting. Too many items are being discussed without the input of all of the board members. All RSI business should be discussed at the monthly meeting so that everything can be included in the minutes. The new light will be installed soon – you can see the markings in the circle. The cancellation of the flu clinic was discussed. George feels that the senior center staff responsible for setting up the clinic should be calling the CDC directly to set up another clinic. He was referred to Mary Fleisher. NEW BUSINESS: No new business. STAFF REPORT: Our holiday cards thanking volunteers for their time will be coming soon. If anyone is interested in looking at the draft for the new senior center brochure please see Jill. The Thrift Shop has requested a new chair using money from their budget. We are moving forward toward getting a snack bar in the Dining Room. It will be open for breakfast from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and will be staffed by Vicky Smith. Profits from this will go to RSI. The meeting was adjourned at 2:50 p.m. The next meeting is scheduled for November 16, 2004. | 
