Meeting+Minutes

The meeting commenced at 3:22, when the Vice President, Chris Robeck, lead members in the Pledge of Allegiance. President Kathy Dunning began by welcoming the new members with the following points. 1.  Meetings will count as community service hours as well as any Key Club related activities. 2.  Students enrolled, as of this school year, will not have to pay the $11.00 fee. 3.  All members will need to report their birth date to a Key Club executive member (preferably Kathy Dunning or Alison Kim) so they can record it. 4.  The Key Club has a new budget of $800.00, $600.00 from the Kiwanis Club (for the charter fee) and $200.00 from the PTA. 5.  Members were encouraged to recruit current 8th graders for next year and to speak with any middle school teachers who could tell their students about the Key Club. To give the Key Club a bigger budget, members of the meeting were asked for any fundraising ideas. The following ideas were proposed. 1.  Car Wash 2.  Bake sale 3.  Have an event where people would pay to throw objects at someone (Chris Robeck and Logan Robeck both volunteered) 4.  Pizza/ ice-cream sale 6.  Uno’s dinner A website was set up for the Key Club with the domain name [|www.jmbkeyclub.wikispaces.com] as well as an e-mail, JMBkeyclub@gmail.com. The President revealed the clubs first charity drive. The Key Club will have a clothing drive for children in a school in Zimbabwe, Africa between the grades of 1st to 7th. There are a total of 641 boys and girls at this school. The drive will be held between May 11th – 22nd. Clothes will be dropped off in designated boxes placed throughout the school. There will be multiple boxes placed in secure parts of the school. Clothes will not include undergarments and should be washed before they are donated. There are kids of all ages at this school so siblings or friends clothing would work as well. President Kathy Dunning asked who would like to volunteer to help manage the event. The following people were chosen to help with the clothing drive. 1.  Lacreisha Phillips (Head of Committee) 2.  Jessica Purner 3.  Logan Robeck 4.  Katelynn Befiore President Kathy mentioned this Key Club would not be technically official until approximately next September. All officers must be trained before they become official. Historian Aisha Mohammed was put in charge of advertising for the Key Club and keeping up the website. The next meeting was set for any date in June where members will fold the clothes and put them in baggies and hopefully have a party. The meeting was adjourned at 3:42 p.m. The meeting commenced at 3:14, when the President, Kathy Dunning, lead members in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pres. Kathy began by sharing the purpose of the meeting, which was to finish bagging the rest of the clothes. The Key Club has already shipped off 57 lbs of clothes. Kathy also gave a review of last week. The club is gathering clothes for children in Zimbabwe, grades 1-7. Each person was instructed to grab some clothes, then to bag each outfit which should include; 1 shirt, 1 pair of pants, and 1 pair of socks. Each bag should have the gender and grade that the clothes are meant for. The Key Club also passed around “Thank You” cards, courtesy of Aisha Mohammed. They were meant for all the adults and organizations that supported the club with this clothing drive. The Key Club members then began to follow the directions given and the meeting ended at 4:00. Recorded by: Mariam Hajir, secretary
 * Key Club Meeting Minutes for May 7, 2009 **
 * Key Club Meeting Minutes for June 28, 2009 **