President – Sam Stoddard / 815-990-4409 /
Vice President – Marci Schubert / 815-656-4490/
Secretary – Ashlie Simonson / 815-947-6090/
Treasurer – Stephanie Vaupel / 815-275-0481/
Director – Amanda Pierce / 815-235-1321x249/
Director – Andy McGovern / 815-762-7189/
Director – KarliWeltzin / 815-947-9950/
Director – Millie Graves
Director- Randy Pepin / 815-947-2000/
Stockton Chamber of Commerce MeetingThursday, November 10th– Meeting at 6 PM
Illinois Bank & Trust
Call to Order-
Time: 6:10pm
Attendees: Sam Stoddard, Marci Schubert, Ashlie Simonson, Stephanie Vaupel, Amanda Pierce, Millie Graves
Open Forum/Guest Speaker-
Secretary Report & Minutes – Ashlie Simonson
Motion Made: Steph Seconded By: Marci Vote- Passed
Treasurer’s Report – Stephanie Vaupel
Motion Made: Amanda Seconded By: Marci Vote- Passed
Committee Reports
Events Committee – Marci/Sam/Stephanie/Amanda/Millie
- Member Appreciation- No report
- Golf Outing- No report
- Fall Into Stockton- Profitable! We are very happy and looking forward to help build this event in the future
- Christmas Walk- Add Lemon to FB Admin. Committee is asking to spend money with the paper. Chamber has agreed to buy cheese and materials for gift baskets for Mac & Cheese, which will be reimbursed by Stockton cheese. They would like $500 for newspaper advertising, which is over the budget amount. Motion made: Sam Motion Seconded: Millie.
Networking Committee– Amanda/Ashlie
- Business After Hours- Amanda suggested Lemon should be going to businesses and asking them to schedule these. She will call them. Ashlie to get her list. We want Lemon to call each business member.
- Social Soup & Sandwich/Lunch and Learn- Amanda and Marci working on something. Lemon has ideas as well.
- The Interview Tour/Business Spotlight- Christ in the Wilderness going up tomorrow. Ashlie to add title
Peace Corp Fellowship Committee – Marci/Sam
Lemon is working on the Mac & Cheese contest. She will work on png for us to share with our members. She needs extension cords and tables. She will ask all restaurants in town to help showcase a dish.
Marketing Committee –Ashlie/Sam/Stephanie/Marci/Millie/Karli/Amanda
- Facebook- Ashlie to make Lemon administrator
- We had requests to share our membership data and we do not offer this unless we direct them to the website where our businesses are featured.
- Marketing committee to meet via email
B.O.S.S Committee–Sam/Denny
- Landmark Update- South side landmark needs to be cleaned up.
Village of Stockton–They are tearing down the Opera house soon. People are looking for Tiff money. Lemon is working with them on the website.
Stockton Strong- We would like to have a conversation about working with Stockton Strong to maximize the utilities both our organizations have. Lemon is going to start reporting to her leaders and hopefully open the communication channel between the chamber/park/village/Stockton strong
Old Business-
New Business-
Adjournment Time:
Motion Made: Stephanie Seconded By: Marci Vote- Passed/Failed
Next Meeting: TBD