FOSL Meeting Record

Treasurer Update

• Current balances
  • Bank: $3,223.72
  • PayPal: $997.65
• Outstanding balances
  • -$379.77 on credit card to pay off
  • +$70ish from Sumas Drug

WCLS Updates

• Whatcom Grooves: Sycamore Park, July 18

  • Free concern in the park with Pine and Shake performing
  • Band cost is $900; Request is for FOSL to help pay
  • FOSL will pay for half; not yet paid, Paul will let us know
  • FOSL will show up with simple concessions (cold soda, Popsicles)

• WCLS events

  • Summer Reading is coming! A trifold handout with 6 weeks of activities to complete

    • Runs from June 22 - August 1
    • No official “end of summer reading celebration”
    • Proposal to use our planned carnival stickers for the Sumas Library reopening

  • Historical Walking Tour, in collaboration with the Sumas Historical Society

    • Happening in August, a tour starting at the museum

Spring Adult Social Recap

• Celebrate a successful event
• Discuss wants for the 2027 event
  • tickets wait list
  • trivia/game to release people for food
  • more butterscotch chocolate pie (more chocolate pies, less fruit pies)
  • clarity of ticket drinks
  • placemat with FOSL stuff on it attendees can draw on
  • indicator of “come sit with us” or “I’m saving this seat”. Find out with ticket intake email
  • a better seating situation: pick seats, assign seats, something
  • during beginning some sort of activity (a table game); points on the table game is how we release to food
  • March felt better than February like last year
• Finances
  • Purchase prizes from town: -$340.73
  • Purchase pies: -$230
  • Pay Bob’s for meal service: -$1500
  • Ticket sales: +$1200
  • Donations: +$1000, +$25

Sumas Days

• Parade and park booth (Sat-June 27)
  • Run a kid’s game at our booth?
  • FOSL not selling anything at our booth
• Corn Hole Tournament: sell popcorn/cotton candy (Fri-June 26)
• FOSL not planning to contribute to fireworks

Movie in the Park

• Friday, July 24th
• Movie: Monster’s Inc 1 hr 32 min
• Vendors and food sales
  • Ballistic Brew
  • Crispitas, La Glora, El Nopal as a food vendor option
  • FOSL does cotton candy, popcorn, drinks; maybe not hot dogs or nachos
• Business sponsors
  • movie license is expected to be $350-500; get a business sponsor to pay for the movie
  • put together a proposal letter we can share with businesses
    • WECU, Kelly Insurance, Cedar Prime
    • animal-themed movie team up with a vet?

Extra Bits

• New website. Write for the blog?
• Transfer banks! Go to Peoples Bank