Tuesday, February 20, 2024

February 2024 Membership Meeting Agenda

 Philomath Community Gleaners  

Monthly Meeting Agenda 

February 20, 2024 @ 7:00pm via ZOOM ONLY 

  • Welcome – 7:00pm 

  • Updates from PCS –  

  • December Meeting Minutes – were posted for reading. Need to approve.    

 

Treasurer Report (s) - 

December and January –  

 

Philomath Gleaners 

 

December 2023 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REVENUES 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frog Donations 

$80.70 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Revenues 

 

 

$80.70 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPENDITURES 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Food Share 

$391.96 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OSU Motor Pool 

$255.06 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gas 

$895.82 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplies 

 

$99.85 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Groceries 

 

$481.44 

 

Amazon, Walmart 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total Expenditures 

 

 

$2,124.13 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Morgan, Treasurer 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philomath GleanersJanuary 2024
 
REVENUES
Frog Donations$64.08
Beans for Bags (First Alt Coop)$250.00
Cans$250.00
Total Revenues$564.08
EXPENDITURES
Linn  Benton Food Share$222.91
Gas$119.43
Groceries$658.56
OSU Motor Pool$60.64
Supplies$79.84
Total Expenditures$1,141.38
Ann Morgan, Treasurer

 

 

Grant information 

Current Grants: 

Roundhouse Grant 23-13 (Starts 11/1/23 - 10/31/2024) $2500 for food and hygiene. Still have $2229.98 

Oddfellows Grant - $800 for hygiene only- - $203.95 avail. 

Siletz Grant 23-15 (Nov 2023) pick up $3000.00 

 

Reports to be completed (Grants spent in full) 

Siletz Grant 22-15 ($2000) - Grant Completely spent as of Feb 2023. Ann Morgan to do the final report 

Siletz Grant 23-04 ($3000). Completely SPENT – Ann to do final report 

Weyerhaeuser (Update- we got $3K of our grant funded). - Pallet Stacker purchased. ALICIA TO DO FINAL REPORT – waiting for the link from Weyerhaeuser 

 

Grants Pending responses:  

N/A 

 

Non funded grant:  

Walmart Community Grant – submitted 2/15/2023 

Oregon Food bank Capital funds – We requested a 75K grant. We will find out Fall 2023. 

 

2023 Grants Completed:  

OSU Thrift Shop Grant 23-14– Patty requested $1,000 for food. Grant Report Complete Feb 2024 

Oddfellows Grant ($650) - Complete! 

Siletz grant 22-03 – Grant Completely spent. Ann Morgan submitted final report May 2023. 

Roundhouse – As of April 15, funds have been spent. Alicia to do final report. The report is done, currently waiting for Mark M to review before being submitted. 

OSU Folk Club Grant – Awarded this grant. We asked for $1,000 and they gave us $2,000. Remaining: Complete. FINAL report was submitted 8/4/23 

December Monthly service report -  

NUMBERS 

Total number of members- 516 (including children)  

Gleaner Households – 108 

Adoptee households – 67 

New households - 5 

Volunteer hours recorded – 1495 

Donated Miles – 4260 

 

 

Total pounds distributed to members: 48,658 

Waste (Pallets, trash, Recycle) 1603 

Donation out –     

    other community groups1186 

    other gleaning groups 2742 

    Farm / animals828 

641 Shops for the Month, average pounds per family was 76# each trip. That is an average value of $147.26 per shopping trip at $1.94 per pound value. 

**Hours needed by Gleaner Family – Total Hours recorded (1495) / # Gleaner Families (108) = 14 hours.  

January NUMBERS 

Total number of members- 521  (including children)  

Gleaner Households – 111 

Adoptee households – 66 

New households - 4 

Volunteer hours recorded – 992 

Donated Miles – 2697 

 

 

Total pounds distributed to members: 29,543 

Waste (Pallets, trash, Recycle) 1107 

Donation out –     

    other community groups2241 

    other gleaning groups1553 

    Farm / animals1330 

489 Shops for the Month, average pounds per family was 60# each trip. That is an average value of $117.21 per shopping trip at 1.94 per pound value. 

**Hours needed by Gleaner Family – Total Hours recorded (992) / # Gleaner Families (111) = 9 hours. 

 

Old Business 

  • Read the Policy and Procedures – How to get members to read it.  

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New Business 

  • Applications and renewals will be coming March or April 1st. ALL families are required to renew and do the paperwork.  

  • Can Policy 

  • Gleaner Coordinators – we need 3 for the summer. 

  • Do we want to do rummage sales this year? Start in May? 

  • Food boxes to bring back unused food March 2nd and 4th 

  • Building yearly cleanup a Tuesday in March. 

  • Reminder: ONLY MEMBERS can shop. You can not bring friends or neighbors. 

  • Reminder: You are not allowed to come early and expect to be allowed to shop.  

  • Open Questions and Answers -- What's going well, what’s not?  

 

 

REMINDERS: 

  • Gleaners need to sign up at least once for a cleanup shift 

  • You are allowed to volunteer more than 8 hours per month. Adoptees need to wait 24 hours after posting the volunteer sign up to sign up to allow for gleaners to get hours in first. If you have your 8 hours in – please allow 24 hours before you sign up.  

 

Next monthly member meeting will be April 16, 2024.