Berks County Parrot Head Club Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Third & Spruce

Phounding Phather and President “Denny Lorah” welcomed all members to the meeting. Sign-in sheets and name tags were available at the door. Denny reminded everyone to sign in.

Denny saluted Cabin Fever Festival, and the two great charities who helped make it such a successful day, even in tough times. We really had some cool auction items!

The president asked if everyone received the minutes; everyone did. The president asked for a motion to approve the minutes. Mike Gaetani made the motion, Kathey Cahill seconded it, and a vote was taken to approve the minutes.

The Treasurer’s report was given by Tim Kraft. He doesn’t yet have a total for what was raised at Cabin Fever, but it was definitely a successful event. Last year we raised $12,500 and Tim feels confident that we did even better this year!

A motion was made by Kris Johnson to accept the Treasurer's report and a second was made by Joanne Muzyka. A vote was taken and the report was approved.

OLD BUSINESS:

- MOTM – Kris gave an update on available flights.
- Reading Phillies – we’ll get 50 tickets for the club.
- We did check presentations for $700 to ARL and $6,300 to CrimeAlert from the Caribbean Christmas show.
- The next general meeting will be Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 7 PM at Third & Spruce.

NEW BUSINESS:
- We gave the Marines/Toys for Tots a check for $370, from our On the Border happy hour at the tickets sold at the Toys for Tots event. The crowd gave the Marines a standing ovation!
- Pub Crawl on April 24 – begins at On the Border, where a bus will pick us up at 5:00. There were 30 tickets left before the meeting started. It’s called the Pirate Ports of Call Pub tour, so everyone should dress in pirate/wench costumes. On the Border will donate 10% of our checks from there to a charity of our choice.

PARROT SCOOP:

- Happy Groundhog’s Day to everyone!
- Eileen thanked everyone on behalf of the board for all the hard work and Cabin Fever
- Birthdays and anniveraries:
Jan 7 – Bryan Gentry
Jan 14 – Shawn & Cherie Guevin’s anniversary (5 years!)
Feb 4 – Barbara Pease
Feb 6 – Karen Fischer
Feb 8 – Jeff Blatt
Feb 12 – Barbara (Grammy) Lorah turns 80!

- On February 18, 1999, Kathey Cahill saw Duane for the first time (and she loves him still!).
- Marilyn and Bob Baertschy are leaving for Guadalajara, Mexico tomorrow (Feb 3), and won’t be back til April.
- We received tickets for a raffle for a frozen Margarita maker from the Hanover Parrot Head Club. Tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20. Winner will be drawn in February. Email brandylorah@gmail.com to enter.
- Eileen did some fun Valentine trivia and gave out prizes.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Remember, all of the committee heads (and board members) can be contacted via the website.

Newsletter Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Duane Cahill
Kathey Cahill gave the report since Duane was out of town.
- There have been 12 responses for business directory so far. It will go live at the end of the month, so send info to Duane (DuaneCahill@verizon.net). You must be a member in good standing in order to be listed.
- All events, including parade dates and events for next year, are listed on the site, through December 2010!!
- We have added a tab to the website for MOTM info. It will be updated throughout the year.
- As always, they are looking for content for both the site and the newsletter.

Membership Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Shawn Guevin
- Nick Blatt gave the report. We’re using a different format this year for renewals, and scanning the forms.
- We received more than 40 renewals and new members at Cabin Fever.
- Ray Diamond Jr. won one of the membership baskets. Nick gave it to him at the meeting. Ray’s a local commercial contractor, and he also does a little bit of residential work. We welcomed him to the club.
- Membership cards will be used for multiple years, to save money and resources.
The new membership badges are larger (to make it easy to read people’s names) and will be updated with yearly stickers, rather than replaced each year (to eliminate the need to create brand new cards every year).
- If anyone wants to join the committee, please let Shawn know. We always meet the second Monday of the month at Denny and Tina’s house.

Charity Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Gary Kraft
- Gary said that Michele Moccio from JDRF emailed him to say that the programs funded by our Summer Daze donation will begin in March!
- The golf outing will benefit the Mifflin YMCA, which will be built in Mohnton. It’s on May 14th, and is $100 per golfer ($400 per foursome) at Willow Hollow. If anyone wants to be a sponsor, we have hole sponsorships available for $100.
- Contact Gary or a committee member to suggest a charity to be considered for future events.

Volunteer Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Scott Kaufmann
- Kris Johnson gave the report. He thanked all the volunteers who helped at the Cabin Fever party.
- Denny said Scott did a great job at his first major event!
- Concert tickets – please let Kris know in advance if you want a ticket for the Camden or Atlantic City shows this summer.
- Kris and Scott will work on the points list next week.
- If anyone wants to join the committee, just let Scott know.

Merchandise Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Tina Shenk
- Tina thanked everyone who donated, bid, brought people, or drank at the winter party. She also thanked her wonderful committee.
- If anyone is interested in joining the committee, just see Tina. The committee always meets the second Monday of each month at Denny & Tina’s. Next meeting is February 8 at 6:30, where they’ll recap the winter party and start getting ready for the summer party.
- The committee needs lanyards. The old ones were donated by a former member. If anyone has a suggestion or connection to a company that produces lanyards, please let Tina or Janice Kraft know.
- Tina mentioned a nice article in the paper recently about Cindy Kauffman, who runs the Pagoda.

Events Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Jodi Blatt
- Jodi recapped the Cabin Fever event and thanked everyone for all their hard work. We sold out of our tickets and had to print more!!
- The Pub Crawl is April 24. Tickets were sold at the meeting. If any tickets are remaining, Jodi will have them; contact her for details.
- JDRF is holding their spring gala in April and is honoring the BCPHC at the event, to thank us for last summer’s fundraiser. Tables of 10 are available for $1000 (or $125 per person for less than a full table). Please let Jodi know if you want to attend (meandmyboz@aol.com) and we’ll put together some club tables for the reduced rate. It’s April 10 at the Crowne Plaza in Wyomissing. There’s a five hour open bar.
- Colleen Lenett, a club member and JDRF parent, spoke about her daughter who was diagnosed when she was 3. She said she’s a tough kid, but she doesn’t understand why no one has found a cure for diabetes yet. Colleen explained that we are much closer to a cure now, especially with our recent donation to JDRF from Summer Daze.
Colleen also talked about her husband Mitch’s new company, Dolce & Banana, which will sell children’s clothes to benefit JDRF. The website is www.dolceandbananakids.com. They have cute kids clothes, and some adult clothes, too. Denny suggested that we use an adult version of the shirt with a parrot as our official club shirt for MOTM this year. Everyone thought it was a great idea.
- The 2010 golf outing will be Willow Hollow on May 14th;
- Next Events committee meeting will be February 16 at Jeff and Jodi’s house at 7pm.

Sponsorship Committee Meeting Minutes
Chairperson: Sam Beam
- Sam said the next Sponsorship meeting will be Monday, Feb 15 at 7pm at Denny & Tina’s house.
- Denny thanked Sam for doing a great job with Sponsorship, especially since he came into it without a whole lot of immediate support.
- If you have any companies you think the committee should ask, just let Sam or Sharron Lash know and they’ll reach out.

Other Info for Good of Club:

Brian Gentry said that his company will match the donation to JDRF from the Dolce & Banana BCPHC gear, up to $25,000!!!

The President asked for a motion for the meeting to adjourn. A motion was made by Kris Johnson to adjourn the meeting, with a second by Carol Domsicz; a vote was taken and the meeting was adjourned.