Cougar Club Meeting Minutes

The NWR Cougar Club meeting was held on April 6, 2009 at 6 p.m.

Roll Call:
Bunny Wallace, Kenyatte and Jeremiah Davis, Jim Bassett, Tara McCoy, Donald Pettit, Darryl Ballard, Sandy Bettiga, Pam and Don Grayson, Tony Burnett, Jeff and Stephanie Roberts, Denise Thomasson, Rob Harvey, Rosanne Johnson, Kathy Gibbs, Jimmy Adams, James Pullen, Dani Edmonson.

Treasury Report:
None.

Agenda/Discussion:
1. New Officers were elected: President: Dani Edmonson; Vice President: James Pullen; Secretary: Rosanne Johnson; Treasurer: Sandy Bettiga.

2. We wanted to give Coach Coates a check for $14,000 towards the new weight room, however Bobby Carpenter, Treasurer was unable to attend. Dani will present payment before the end of April.

3. We discussed renaming and setting new levels for membership to assist with baseline funding. Current schedule is: Stray Cat $10 with listing on web site; Cougar Club $25 + magnet; Black Cat $75 + T-shirt; Gold Cat $125; Fat Cat $250 + main page sponsor listing. Dani will develop suggested levels and send out by email for approval. Coach will plan a scrimmage game sometime in May as sort of a ‘meet and greet’ for the Booster Club to get more members and more involvement from more parents.

4. We discussed communication from the Club. Dani does not want to send out so many e-mails and will communicate primarily thru the Football Blog. Rosanne Johnson mentioned that she had trouble setting up the automatic notification whenever it was updated. Barin will be asked to check into this and be sure it is not a problem.

5. Dani Edmonson will head up the Program ads this year. Every member is asked to review the ads and volunteer to contact anyone from last year that placed an ad and get them to re-up their ad. In the current economic environment, we need to get as many former sponsors as possible plus many new ones. It was mentioned that we are also competing with the Middle School program and advertisers would probably prefer to be in the High School program.

6. Dani mentioned the need for new committee chairmen and class representatives. Jimmy Adams and Donald Petit volunteered to head up the merchandising committee. Dani will send out an email requesting other volunteers.

7. We discussed selling off the current inventory of merchandise at an upcoming scrimmage game. We discussed the need for a new T-shirt design and merchandising at the ballgames among all the other clubs selling merchandise.

8. A work day will be scheduled for this summer.

Meeting Adjourned at 7:15 pm.

Minutes submitted by: Rosanne Johnson, Secretary