Connections Weekend Planning                               6/20/2018                         

Agenda:

In Attendance: Jen Allerding, Kyle Baughn, Terry Gribble, Miranda Jones, Steve Melchior, Sandy Powell, Beth Rutledge, Dave Spraw, Chris Stone & Brian Treisch, 

Financial Report: As reported last month, the investment account has approximately $31,000 and the checking account total is $15,080. 

Review of Minutes: Jen and Terry moved to approve minutes from May 25, 2018;

Coordinator's Report: Beth shared that on June 19th the HOF committee met and selected this year's HOF list;

Committee Updates:

Bonfire/Pep Rally - The 2018 Connections Weekend will be October 11 - 13th; Booster Club will host a hot dog fundraiser and pie auction; the Pep Rally event will begin @ 6:45 pm;

Pancake Breakfast - the Kiwanis Club has coordinated with Food Service to use the Intermediate School on Saturday morning 10/13;

Alumni Band - Will continue in 2018; Alumni Band rehearsals have begun on Sunday evenings;

Hall of Fame Nominations - The sub-committee met on June 19th and selected the following HOF honorees for 2018 - George Guins, Michael Jokerst, Paul Kim, Mark Stepro, John Swain and Van Wagner; Brian and Dave recommend adding Horace Freese w/biography to come: Terry and Steve approved the list of HOF awardees; Chris will prepare news release to announce the honorees;

Dinner Banquet - Sandy & Beth will meet with Wade Cramer (AVITA Chef) on Tuesday, July 17th;

Fund Raising & Promotion - Beth is preparing the fundraising letter and will use the new mailing list from the Chamber of Commerce that Miranda forwarded to Jim in May;

Program - Dave will coordinate w/the committee members to build the program as in previous years; Beth will look for the Bio form to send to several of the honorees;

Awards - Miranda has coordinated the HOF awards again with Schillings and Dave will again arrange with Dean's Trophies for HS plaques;

Career Day - MS morning program - Jen has reached out to Dr. Kim and will do the same with Mark Stepro and one of the law enforcement speakers previously recommended;  the committee will help in July to identify potential speakers from Jen's recommended career area's; 

Capital Planning Updates - No updates this month;

New Business - HS Leadership Day; Chris will work with Jake Grove at the HS for this project; Brian asked if there was a record on file for all of the Freese Foundation members; Dave suggested that Tena Easter may have that list in the HS files;

Next Meeting - Wednesday, July 18, 2018 @ 7:30 am @ the Galion Schools' Administrative Center.

Meeting adjourned @ 8:15 am;