FOSL Meeting Record

Treasurer Update

• Current balances
  • Bank: $4,828.87? (guess as D is not here to verify)
  • PayPal: $688.94
    • -$205.63 for custom event stickers (6x100)
    • +$25 donation
    • +$840 in ticket sales (-$27.06 in fees)
• Outstanding expenses
  • $0

WCLS Updates

• Sumas Library Update

  • Work has started on repairs! Estimated time to completion is still unknown but hopefully we hear soon
  • Contract says repairs should be done within 4 months

• WCLS events

  • Summer programming is being planned right now (won’t be solidified until end of month)

    • Nancy requests basket weaving!

  • Library surveys went out, and more surveys are coming. This will inform the WCLS strategic plan for the future. A future survey will specifically target non-cardholders

  • Two spots left in Dog Day Afternoons, a program where kids read to dogs. This was a Sumas program but is taking place at the Everson Library on April 16 & 23

Spring Adult Social

• Event stickers
  • Stickers are in and look great!
  • 600 stickers were ordered at 100 for each of our 6 planned events
    • next year adjust counts to the expected event sizes
• Donations, prizes to purchase, pies
  • Targeting local businesses not impacted by the flood
  • Any goods donated that celebrate the community or were made within the community are encouraged, even if donated by individuals
  • Donations so far from Emerald City Smoothies, Village Books, and Lavendar Farms (plus Robin!)
  • Bob’s might donate a night at the hotel
• Decorations, tables, photo backdrop
  • Tables that can be drawn on
  • Reuse photo backdrop from last year
• Schedule for the night is still pending
• Museum Trivia: The Sumas Historical Society and Museum will supply some trivia for us to use in a trivia game for the night
• Brett and Sarah to pick up pies for after dinner from Dutch Bakery

Taxes & banking

• Check-in on taxes to be filed
  • There have been lulls in this, need to verify our status (knowing we have little to report)
• Proposal to change banks to WECU (postponed but there is interest)

Summer Events

• Library re-opening party planning. The library likely won’t open until this summer, and that is tentative. Should be done with 4 months.
• Finding a business partner for Movie in the Park
  • Partner with a vet? Kelshun or Nooksack
  • Kelly Insurance?
  • Brown & Brown

Extra Bits

• Look for partnerships we can do with the community center, possibly for elderly