Gleaners meeting tonight - June 15th @ 6:30pm (at the site and online)
Philomath Community Gleaners Monthly Meeting
June 15, 2021 @ 6:30pm via ZOOM & In person
Welcome
-PCS Updates
-May Meeting Minutes were posted and approved via online vote – Alicia
-Philomath Gleaners Treasurer Report May 2021
Report by Ann Morgan, Treasurer
Grants:
Siletz remaining 1839.01
Pacific Power 880.02
$600 remaining in Gift Cards that were donated few months ago (we have been purchasing all the ziplocks bags, trash bags, etc)
Monthly service report
Total number of members- (including children) 243 Gleaner Households – 51 Adoptee households – 47 New households - 7 Volunteer hours recorded – 780
| Adoptee Hours – Hours and mile (included above)-Not counted Donated Miles – 1267 Wood glean hours – 0 Wood glean miles donated – none Wood gathered/gleaned – none Donations from Stores - 11,391 Target – 22,706 Donations from Other-2,567
| Wood Distributed – 0 Total pounds distributed to members – 32079 Waste (Animal) – 3725 Donation out – pounds other community groups 2209 pounds to other gleaning groups 663 7 (Includes Target sharing) |
360 Shops for the Month, average pounds per family was 89# each trip. That is an average value of $148.81 per shopping trip
Old Business-
-Nutcracker purchase – Finally this is ordered!
-Mask/Covid Policy – Patty
-Shopping week (Alicia)
-Crazy Dayz – We made 56.25 on June 5th
New Business
-Open Questions and Answers -- What's going well, what’s not?
-We received a $1000.00 donation and the donor would like the members to choose how we spend it.
-Cans for Cash! Remember we do take our cans in and recycle for cash. June we brought in 58.10 already. Please bring your cans back that you take to drink.
-We need alternative pickup folks
-Gleaning coordinator needed for the summer till at least September
-Woodlot cleanup
-Meetings monthly or every other month option
-Open house – Fall 2021
-Walmart Grant – Alicia/Kate (requesting $500 for Food) - Working on writing it
-Reser Grant – Due 8/1 and Alicia and Elaine are working on it.
-Cans – Recyling, Grant – Ann Morgan
REMINDERS:
-Mandatory 4 hour (NEW) volunteer commitment per month. Cleanup help always needed. We will also be adding a dishwasher cleanup person to the sign ups for Saturday and Mondays
Next monthly member meeting will be July 13, 2021
For future follow-up – No new news to report.
Cooler Update – PCS is still working on it.
Tents Update – PCS is still working on it – although we have 1 on hand. We need to get the cooler covered before we can put up the tents.
