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Delta Chamber of Commerce President Fred Sheen called the meeting to order at 12:00 pm at the Alaskan Steakhouse. 29 members and guests attended. A quorum was present. Fred asked the Delta Trivia Question: Identify the Polar Bear Plungers shown on the back of the agenda. Answer: Rochester (Ed “Shop-Rite” Larson; Ron “The Man of Principals” Magee; North Star Willoughby and Bobby “Mr. Fitness” Kezer. The Chamber welcomed new members:
January Membership Minutes were presented to the membership for approval. MMSP Cleeta Barger/LTC Robert Cornelius to approve same. Claire read the Treasurer’s Report, stating as follows: The Chamber General Account Balance is $12,073.82, Community Service Fund is $109,910.70 and Visitors Information Center Account is $5,672.64, for a total balance on all accounts of $127,657.16. MMSP Cleeta Barger/Janet Boyer to approve the report as read. Fred gave a report on the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce, Local Chamber Outreach Committee, stating they are working on local chamber issues such as ways to improve by-laws and ways to present issues to the legislature. He is attending the legislative tie-in in Juneau on February 23-24 and will bring our chamber’s issues before legislators. He reported the Borough Charter Commission is still waiting on info from the state assessor. He further stated that he attended this month’s city council meeting and the council has agreed to consider his request to transfer the visitor information center to the chamber. Fred also welcomed new board member, Chuck Hardy. Vice President Cleeta Barger reported on the Teck Pogo Roundtable Meeting stating there is electricity to the substation located behind the permanent housing installation. Pogo currently has 20 employees in the original camp and are looking for more. She said the rest of the people there are contractors. She also stated they have started digging the tunnels and they are 100 feet into one of them and 50 feet into the other. Pogo is slated to open in December 2005. She reported that news from the GMD Roundtable meeting is the army is having to go out to bid for housing on or off post and that Alaska troops are leaving in September and there will only be about 400 troops remaining in Alaska at Ft. Greely and Ft. Wainwright. Executive Director Brenda Peterson attached a copy of the chamber’s new donation guidelines and a copy of the donations made by the chamber for 2004 to the agenda packet and gave a brief explanation of both. Activities Coordinator Martha Bryant gave a brief report about the results of the Festival of Lights event and thanked volunteers for their help; LTC Robert Cornelius for taking “the plunge”; and all the sponsors for helping to make this event a success. Martha also attached a written report to the agenda. A forum was held at this chamber meeting whereby key city officials presented their top community legislative priorities for 2005 as follows: Speaking for the City of Delta was Pete Halgren, City Administrator who stated the city’s priorities were 1. Down-Town arterial Street and school access paving; 2. Purchase City Park from Mental Health Trust; 3. Recreation Center Improvements; 4. Construct Mausoleum at municipal Cemetery; and, 5. Reallocate remainder of EDA Grant match to Park Maintenance & Playground Equipment. Representing the Deltana Corporation was Paul Knopp who stated their priorities include 1. Library – sealed cabinets for displaying pictures and artifacts, shelving and chairs; 2. Emergency Services Upgrade – space to house a rescue vehicle for the Big D area and a truck bay for the fire truck for the Clearwater area; and, 3. Souhrada Road – street light or 4-way stop and finish gravel resurfacing. Superintendent, Dan Beck and Elementary Principal, Sandy Hill represented the Delta/Greely School District. Their one priority is to complete the new elementary school – furnishings, playground equipment, bleachers, shelving, computers, etc. A motion was made by Cleeta Barger and seconded by Janet Boyer to bring last month’s tabled motion to the floor concerning chamber support for the new Delta Elementary School. Discussion followed and a vote was taken to make the completion of the new Delta Elementary School the chamber’s top priority for 2005, motion passed. Delta Veterinary Service was drawn to be the Big Bucks winner of $30.00 but there was no representative in attendance. $5.00 will be added to March’s Big Bucks prize making it worth $35.00. Victorian Inn Bed & Breakfast was drawn to be the March Member Spotlight. Jon Taylor-Lawton from Job Service was drawn to be the door prize winner of a large candy bouquet provided by Ribelin Lowell & Company. Meeting was adjourned at 12:50 P.M. Brenda Peterson *Subject to approval by the general membership at the next regular meeting on March 17, 2005.
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