The Food Pantry

Meeting Minutes
January 15, 2009

Present: Betty Crane, Nance Driscoll, AnnElissa Leveque, Francis Jane Addor, Burt Randall, Barbara Merrill, Gail Dransfield, Kathy Sahrbeck and Jan Files.

Balance: $5,056.37

Requests: Sept. 18, 2008 – Jan. 15, 2009
Families – 152; Adults – 265; Children – 24

Old Business:
We had a very long list of food and money donations, which you will find attached to these minutes. We at the meeting picked donors names to write Thank You notes to. Notes will be written from home.

Gail will write the Thank You notes on donations as they come in, while Judy is away.

It was mentioned that Chris Mill has been bringing bakery products to us for a long time and most likely has never been thanked. It was suggested that we send him a note.

Twice there have been bags left in the pantry with food donations that had no names on them. Kathy thought some of the bags were donations from Jane Eberle’s pot luck supper.

Barbara has just bought $120 worth of Gift Cards.

New Business:
Gail suggested that we take $300 out of our budget and buy flats of our most needed foods, such as small instant coffee, cereal, canned fruit, peanut butter, jelly, and canned meats. All agreed and AnnElissa will go shopping.

AnnElissa suggested that we write up some recipes to put in bags with the ingredients to make casseroles made with pasta. We have an abundant amount of pasta that was collected at one of our food drives. She said she would write up the recipes and leave copies to put in bags.

We were asked, when we shelved, not to put the cans way back in the rear and to make sure we put things in the right places. All extra large cans are to be put in a box to go to the Soup Kitchen. All baking supplies are to be given to Holly for her Soup Kitchen baking that she does.

Francis Jane said her husband, Roger, would be glad to hang our plaque we’d made to commemorate Verna Andrews and Beryl Brink. If it is not going to be hung by our door, the plaque by the door should be moved so that both plaques will both located alongside each other.

Request to Holly Daze Bazaar: We’d like to have some money to replace our rug and to build some more shelves. The name of Guy Gledhill was brought up as someone who could give us an estimate as to how much money would be needed to do this. Gail will look into this.

Gail wants to be put on the sub-list.

AnnElissa is going to make up a list of allergies for a child that she knows that we donate to. A note will be attached to her file, reminding us to check to list before packing for her.

A date for our coffee hour sale of post dated food was chosen. It will be Sunday, March 1. Gail will take care of putting a note in the Beacon and making a poster. AnnElissa and I will be doing the setting up before church and stay for sales. The money we make at these sales will be set aside for pantry improvements, whenever needed.

Respectfully submitted by Jan Files.