MINUTES OF THE BARNES AREA HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION MEETING
OF
President Dave Pease called
the meeting to order at
The new officers were
introduced. These are Dave Pease, President; Bob Oberstar, Vice President; Lu
Peet, Secretary; Quentin Ruprecht, Elected Treasurer and Linda Oberstar,
Appointer Alternate Treasurer. All of these officers and the appointed officer will
serve a one (1) year term ending in 2009. The new Board Members At Large are
Carol Pease and George Martin. They will serve a three (3) year term expiring
in 2011. Current Board Members At Large
include Jon Harkness, Helen Ruprecht and Mike Bowes (terms expiring in 2010).
There was discussion on the
EBay sales that Kurt Kuhlman did for us. The group offered its thanks to Kurt
for his efforts.
Secretary Lu Peet handed out
the minutes to the members. Motion (Helen Ruprecht / Carol Pease) to
approve the minutes as presented. Call for discussion. Motion
carried.
Linda Oberstar presented the
Treasurer’s Report, as the newly elected Treasurer Quentin Ruprecht had just
come on board. The report is as follows:
Checkbook Balance as of
Centennial Book Sales (4) $
100.00
Flea Markets $
550.08
Raffle Tickets (2009) $
360.00
Note Cards $
12.00
Lu Peet- Pie Social Expenses ($ 126.94)
Northwoods Shopper
(Advertising) ($ 114.00)
VFW Post 8329-Land Purchase ($ 10,000.00)
Checkbook
Balance as of
CD One for $11,035.09 matures
on
CD Two for $10,829.52 matures
on
CD Three for $3,367.77
matures on
CD
Four for $8,124.91 matures on
Linda Oberstar said that we
still owe $2,500.00 to the VFW on the land purchase. There was discussion that
this should be taken out of the CD that will expire on
Old Business:
Lu will
make up the posters and she and Carol Pease will distribute them. Lu will also
get one to Ron
Pearson
to post on the Barnes web site.
2.
Site Updates-Building
Committee-VFW Land Purchase-There was discussion on getting an attorney (George Knapp will be the attorney
handling this issue, but will not be kept on retainer at this time for BAHA) to get a legal
document drawn up to present to the VFW. This would cover issues such as the
right of first refusal (both for us if the VFW would have
additional land for sale and also if we should want to sell the land, the VFW would have the right of first
refusal), any easement issues for the parking lot and use, the exact legal description of the land, etc. There was discussion on who was on the
building committee. Quentin Ruprecht, George
Martin and Lu Peet said that they were on the original committee, along with
Judi Scholz. We still owe the
VFW $2,500.00 that we will pay at the end of September.
3. State of
A.
Financial Report-Lu Peet gave Linda Oberstar the information on the
forms. We should find out what we
need to do. Motion (Jon Harkness / Carol Pease) to get reasonable professional
advice on what we need to fill out. Call
for discussion. Motion carried. Janet Seymour was not able to give us any further information
on this.
Kurt said that what we have
proposed were all good ideas, but what is our plan? We need to get our group’s
information out there. There was discussion on getting a flyer into the tax
bills. This flyer would tell who we are and what we have been doing. Kurt
Kuhlman said he could do a draft of such a flyer with an artist’s rendering of
our proposed museum on it. We would include membership information and other
contact information on the flyer.
New Business
Carol Pease said that she and
Dave had toured the
Motion (Mike Bowes / Jon Harkness) to
adjourn the meeting. Call for
discussion. Motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at
Respectfully submitted,
Lu Peet Barnes Area
Historical Association Secretary
Dated this 22nd day of September 2008