Friends of Rippey Meeting
July 28th, 2024
7pm
Rippey Library-South Meeting Room
Present: Nancy Hanaman (Chair), Dale Hanaman (Treasurer), Cara McCoy (Secretary), Chelsi Lawrence, Shannon Lawrence, Brad Rowe, Anita Rowe, (Marc Monthei and Sarah Killgore via zoom)
Nancy Hanaman shared the agenda and started the meeting at 7:00pm. She asked for any changes to the agenda, seeing none proceeded to last month’s minutes. Minutes from the last meeting of July 14th were approved. Dale Hanaman, Treasurer, expenses of $100 to Town and Country band, and $100 for the umpire for Rippey Fun Day. This leaves us with the general FOR account at $18,213.35 and Website management at $1,356.43. Total amount altogether is $19,569.78. The treasurer’s report was approved. Other bills and income from Rippey Fun day will come soon.
The Rippey Fun Day event review was discussed. The date for the event was July 20th, 2024. The Rippey Fun Day was a good event and we plan to do it next year. The parade was really nice and had 42 entries. Rain did scare off a couple vendors and food trucks but the vendors we had enough regardless. The pickleball and basketball tournaments were also canceled due to the weather. The yard games were good, just less time for them, maybe not 7 hours. The truck show at the old school/fire station had around 80 trucks which is amazing. The other car/truck/tractor show went well but need to reach/advertise at more shows for this one next year. The petting zoo was a very great addition. The United Methodist Church said that their supper went well. The town and country band had 25 people attend. The baseball game was a very intense/close game. The fireworks everyone thought were amazing and a good ending to the day. The street dance, since the family emergency from the band, unfortunately did not happen. We are thinking about cutting that out next time due to the fireworks being such a good end to day.
We also had a few people say that they would like everything in one area. We will try to do that next year. We also had input of most of the things coming back to the town. We will try to make sure that this happens this year and in future years. The other thing we might do is make the tournaments in the afternoon 5:30-7pm or something like that.
The advertisements were great. We are thinking of more ways to advertise for next year.
Sarah is making a new Friends of Rippey logo, be on the lookout for this.
Nancy and Dale Hanaman are stepping down from their officer roles. They just wish to be a part of the group and not the heads anymore. Discussion of who would like to be president and treasurer occurred. Chelsi Lawrence was nominated for President and Anita Rowe was nominated for Treasurer. A motion was made by Shannon and seconded by Cara for these appointments. A vote for these appointments was passed and Chelsi Lawrence is now president and Anita Rowe is now Treasurer.
Discussion of fundraisers for the next Rippey Fun Day and trunk or treat will happen at the next meeting.
The next meeting will be August 18th, 2024 at 7pm.
Adjourned at 7:55pm.
Submitted by
Cara McCoy,
Secretary