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While the attendance at our second meeting was light (15) we forged ahead and unanimously approved our Mission Statement.

Our Bylaws have been unanimously approved as well, with the following changes:

Article III Membership, Section B. – Strike the last sentence, "Prospective members may attend one membership event/meeting without paying dues."

This change was recommended and discussed relative to advertising meetings in the Post-Bulletin as open to the public. It was agreed that some events would be designated "members only" and some would be advertised in the Post-Bulletin calendar as open to the public.

Discussion was also held regarding developing "Standing Rules" at some point in the future which could deal with issues of attendance/dues paying or we could re-visit this and amend our bylaws if necessary.

Article V Meetings, Section A. – Add the following sentence, "A quorum of 30% of the membership shall be required to conduct business."

This change was discussed and recommended to clarify how many members need to be present to conduct business. Since some meetings may not draw a large percentage of our members and we will need to be able to conduct business, we agreed that a relatively small percentage of total members would be necessary to conduct business (in the hopes that if it is important enough to members, they will want their opinion to count and will attend!).

Article XII Amendments, Section A. – Add the following to the last sentence, "of members in attendance." (Thus, the entire sentence would read, "Either procedure is to be approved by a two thirds vote of members in attendance.")

This change, again, was simply to clarify whether we would have enough members in attendance to conduct business and follows the same logic as #2 above.

A Nominations Committee has been appointed to contact members and fill our board positions. Those serving are Mona Keehn, Diane Larson, Sharon Schmoll and Cindy Tomashek. Our first Executive Board will be installed at our next (First Annual) meeting on February 2, 2006 (the first Thursday in February, 2006). Cindy will research the following possible locations: Red Cross building, Quarry Hill Nature Center, Rochester Art Center, Rochester Public Library, Isaak Walton building. (If anyone has other suggestions, please email or call Cindy.)

Pat Ferguson generously donated a Hosta ‘Tattoo' for our door prize drawing, which was won by Patty Hutchings. Thanks Pat!!

Cindy asked the group to consider what our website content should be and whether it should include a member login area for access to information like a membership list. Doug Gustafson has been working on possible web site setups along with Jim Orleff and a friend of his (sorry I don't know his name). Cindy showed the group the mock-up pages Doug provided. Thanks to Doug, Jim and company for all the time they have already put into this on our group's behalf.

Yvonne Landgren has drafted several lovely logo ideas for our society. It was so hard to choose just one that we ended up voting for two favorites each and there were two clear winners that Yvonne will develop in greater detail for our selection of a finalist at the next meeting. Thanks for sharing your talents Yvonne!

We then briefly talked about fall cleanup tips and a handout was provided. Some good information was shared about Hosta cultivation in general. (Our future programs will be much more interesting – starting with our annual meeting!).

The meeting was adjourned and we enjoyed the wonderful treats provided by Mona Keehn. Thanks Mona, it was all scrumptious!!

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