November Wrap-Up Meeting Minutes

Kelly Drive Pumpkin Growers Association
Meeting Minutes November 18th – Wrap Up Meeting

• Thank you to Howard and Jeannie for hosting the November meeting!
• President Callista called the meeting to order. A huge thank you to Callista for all her work as president this year. At this meeting KDPGA members were asked to give positives about this year’s weigh off and/or areas for improvement. I will try and list the different ideas in no particular order.

- KDPGA members liked that the family who grew each pumpkin was announced at the weigh off.
- Everyone liked having “the little judge” at the weigh off
- We should make sure to give all the kids a role at the weigh off so they feel they are an important part of the day
- Organizing the parade a little more this year was great – maybe next year we could expand on that as well with flags that could be made by the kids at earlier pumpkin meetings
- Having the invitations on email was a great idea
- The t-shirts were fabulous this year – we probably could have sold more at the weigh off
- Next year we should make sure to watch the stone pillars to make sure that kids are not climbing on them
- Renae K. will be taking over the book that Lisa started for writing down the different job and committee descriptions. Thank you Renae!
- The web-site will be looked at for possible updating. Jennifer has continued to write on the KDPGA blog.
- Thank you again to Paul for the wonderful job on the DVD this year!!
- Everyone should continue to think about possible themes for the 2008 weigh off
- We need to also look at different ways to monitor the pumpkins that are left out the day before the weigh off so that they are not “taken”
- Karl, Jeannie, and George M. agreed to help form a welcoming committee for new neighbors

• Jon H. reported that at this point we have $1,058.00. Our beginning balance was $979.00. Total expenses for 2007 were $3669.00 and total deposits were $3748.00. Thanks Jon for always doing such a great job. We all appreciate you!
• Our new presidential team will be Lisa and Chris. Thank you to both of them for taking on this important job. Look for more information on a possible “Pub Crawl” in February!
• Jennifer Griffin-Wiesner will be the new secretary. Please be sure to let Jennifer know if your email address changes so we can keep everyone up to date.

Thank you to everyone for helping make this year’s weigh off so successful! Happy holidays to everyone – see you in April! Let it snow!!!

Janet